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.

CRIME & SECURITY

Cecilia Strzyzowski: Victim’s blood found on Sena family mattress

13-07-2023 14:11 Key breakthrough in case investigating disappearance of 28-year-old in Chaco Province; DNA testing on mattress, furniture from Sena family home indicate victim’s blood.

Disappearance of Cecilia Strzyzowski

Cecilia Strzyzowski case: Lawyers say Sena family role is clear

29-06-2023 20:04 Plaintiff lawyer Fabián Améndola, declares that the Sena family’s “responsibility” for the suspected killing of Cecilia Strzyzowski has been “established” and highlights the importance of forensic work on the mobile telephones of suspects.

Disappearance of Cecilia Strzyzowski

Prosecutors: ‘Strong indications’ Cecilia Strzyzowski was killed at Sena family home

22-06-2023 17:56 Investigators probing disappearance and suspected femicide of missing 28-year-old Cecilia Strzyzowski in Resistencia closing in on details of “macabre and atrocious” act.

DISAPPEARANCE OF CECILIA STRZYZOWKI

Corruption, political nepotism, money: Chaco femicide shocks country

22-06-2023 00:33 The disappearance of Cecilia Strzyzowski has mobilised a province and rocked national politics. Twenty-eight-year-old’s disappearance and links with alleged murderers put spotlights on local politics and ongoing court investigation.

DISAPPEARANCE OF CECILIA STRZYZOWKI

Cecilia Strzyzowski investigation: Police analyse bones found during search

20-06-2023 16:34 Bones being analysed to try to determine if they belong to Cecilia Strzyzowski, the 28-year-old last seen in Resistencia almost three weeks ago.

DISAPPEARANCE OF CECILIA STRZYZOWKI

Protesters rally in Resistencia to demand justice for Cecilia Strzyzowski

20-06-2023 09:45 Hundreds of chaqueños took to the streets of Resistencia on Monday to demand justice for Cecilia Strzyzowski, the 28-year-old who has been missing since June 1.

DISAPPEARANCE OF CECILIA STRZYZOWKI

Ring discovery boosts investigation into Cecilia Strzyzowski's disappearance

19-06-2023 17:33 Investigators probing the suspected femicide of Cecilia Strzyzowski have revealed they have discovered what they believe to be the missing woman’s engagement ring.

EDITORIAL

Crime time versus electoral timetables

17-06-2023 06:01 If nature abhors a vacuum, democratic politics also needs new men and women to fill its leadership vacuum.

DEATH OF CECILIA STRZYZOWSKI

Suspected femicide rocks Chaco in build-up to primary

15-06-2023 21:10 Protests in Resistencia call for justice for Cecilia Strzyzowski, 28, missing since June 1; Her former husband, scion of a powerful political family, is among seven being detained in custody.

GENDER VIOLENCE

Argentina holds annual 'Ni Una Menos' march

04-06-2023 09:54 Tens of thousands turn out for the annual Ni Una Menos anti-gender violence march, just days after a young woman was killed by a coworker who had harassed her.