In Argentina, femicide is an aggravated form of homicide, defined as a murder committed by a man against a woman in the context of gender-based violence. Countries beyond Latin America have been ...

On January 24, Argentina’s Minister of Justice Mariano Cúneo Libarona warned on X that the government of President Javier Milei would seek to eliminate femicide from the penal code on the ...

The mysterious death of Argentine woman Lucila Nahir Nieva has caused shock both in her home country and in the United States ...

Thousands of women took to the streets of Buenos Aires on International Women’s Day to protest Argentinian President Javier Milei’s’ plans to remove the crime of femicide from the penal code.

In his speech at the World Economic Forum in January Milei attacked homosexual couples and the term “femicide” (which in Argentina is an offence listed in the Penal Code). Outrage over his remarks led ...