News of femicide

Report: January saw 28 victims of gender-based violence

10-02-2025 18:34 Buenos Aires Province remains the region with the most femicide cases in the country, followed by Santa Fe, Mendoza and CABA.

POLITICS

Government wants to remove femicide from Argentina's Penal Code

24-01-2025 15:48 President Javier Milei's government wants to strip femicide from Argentina's Penal Code, eliminate non-binary IDs and remove quotas for disabled and trans people.

WOMEN'S RIGHTS

Brazil introduces law increasing femicide sentences to 40 years

11-10-2024 12:42 Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signs into law a bill that makes femicide a separate criminal offence with potential sentence of up to 40 years behind bars.

CRIME & SECURITY

Chaco: Cecilia Strzyzowski femicide case sent to trial

01-05-2024 10:26 Former partner César Sena, his parents Emiliano Sena and Marcela Acuña, and four assistants of powerful local picket-leader, look set to face trial by jury.

8M Rally

'We will be a tsunami' – Green tide fills streets surrounding Congress on 8M

09-03-2024 19:48 Thousands of women of all ages demonstrated near Congress to make their slogans against sexist violence heard.

by Sabrina Chemen

#8M: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

Cecilia Palmeiro: ‘Feminism is a space of resistance and social transformation’

08-03-2024 06:10 Professor, activist and founding member of Ni Una Menos movement reflects on challenges facing women in Argentina and her hopes for the future.

CRIME & SECURITY

Femicide in Berazategui: 33-year-old woman stabbed 24 times

12-02-2024 11:21 Mother-of-four María Belén Muñoz, 33, stabbed 24 times by partner in brutal killing; Accused Alejandro Albornoz, 34, has confessed to crime. He had been denounced for domestic violence by his own mother.

GENDER VIOLENCE

Femicides up as Milei seeks to weaken protections

13-01-2024 22:18 Argentina registered 322 femicides in 2023, a figure equivalent to almost one murder a day, according to government data.

DISAPPEARANCE OF CECILIA STRZYZOWKI

Cecilia Strzyzowski's mother and sister say they're leaving Chaco

13-09-2023 14:55 Both Ángela Strzyzowski and Gloria Romero, missing 28-year-old’s sister and mother, have been living under police protection since she disappeared in early June in Resistencia; Investigators believe she was slain by her husband and his parents.

DISAPPEARANCE OF CECILIA STRZYZOWKI

Expert report: Bones thought to belong to Cecilia Strzyzowski were burnt

05-09-2023 13:48 Investigators into the disappearance of Cecilia Strzyzowski in Resistencia told bones believed to belong to the victim were burnt for at least three hours before being dumped in a river.

News of femicide

Report: January saw 28 victims of gender-based violence

Government wants to remove femicide from Argentina's Penal Code

Brazil introduces law increasing femicide sentences to 40 years

Chaco: Cecilia Strzyzowski femicide case sent to trial

'We will be a tsunami' – Green tide fills streets surrounding Congress on 8M

Cecilia Palmeiro: ‘Feminism is a space of resistance and social transformation’

Femicide in Berazategui: 33-year-old woman stabbed 24 times

Femicides up as Milei seeks to weaken protections

Cecilia Strzyzowski's mother and sister say they're leaving Chaco

Expert report: Bones thought to belong to Cecilia Strzyzowski were burnt

Milei assets – the President declared over 200 million pesos and his sister a 221 percent increase

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US judge orders Argentina’s Economy Minister to turn over YPF texts

Milei receives Trump’s Homeland Security czar for a Visa Waiver Program agreement

Lower export duties: the government seeks farm dollars to tame the rising greenback

Mar del Plata: encontraron una bolsa con inscripciones chinas en el mar a más de 1.200 metros de profundidad

ANSES confirmó los nuevos montos de AUH y Tarjeta Alimentar en agosto

Victoria Villarruel suma apoyos: un grupo mendocino le ofrece su partido para lanzarse en 2027

Cinco gobernadores lanzaron una alianza electoral federal para enfrentar a Javier Milei en las elecciones de octubre

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