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 ...

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.

The crime with national repercussions in France embodies the police and judicial dysfunctions that mark femicide cases. The house in front of which Chahinez Daoud was killed, in Mérignac ...

Mario Sáenz, a skateboarder, was sentenced to more than four decades in prison for finding him guilty of the femicide of Victoria Salas, who was found in his room hotel in 2017. Through the ...

Ecuador, by contrast, defines femicide more broadly, focusing on power dynamics and the gendered nature of the crime, regardless of the relationship between the victim and perpetrator. In Argentina, ...