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

The new change typifies femicide in a specific article, and no longer as just another variation of homicide. Penalties went up from 12 to 30 years of imprisonment to 20 to 40 years.

ROME (AP) — The Italian government approved a draft law that for the first time introduces the legal definition of femicide in the country’s criminal law and punishes it with life imprisonment.

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 ...

the Conference "From the Rape of Mother Earth to Femicide." On Saturday afternoon (3:30 PM) there is a scheduled guided tour at MANN with a dedicated route curated by Dr. Roberta Neomartini.

But when it comes to femicide — the killing of women and girls because they are women — words often fail us. Newspaper clippings on femicide. Credit: Tu Anh Hoang, Pauline Oosterhoff Femicide, ...

he increasing media coverage of the alarming rise in femicide has only intensified public fear. Violence against women has now escalated to the point of fatality, serving as a grim consequence of ...

DOHS Cares Foundation, a group focused on women and children matters has launched the #NoDeyKpaiWoman campaign to create awareness and take action against rising incidences of femicide.

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