Carolina Aló was 17 years old the night her father, Edgardo, saw her for the last time. In their final conversation, he ...

In a major setback in the fight against gender-based violence, Argentinian President Javier Milei’s government has announced ...

Argentina’s president reverses a law that established femicide as a crime. Also, a new report shows that the majority of ...

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 ...

This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers ...

Argentinian President Javier Milei last week told the World Economic Forum in Davos that 'radical feminism is a distortion of ...

Femicide is “a crime of murder perpetrated by a man against a woman in the context of gender violence”. That’s the current legal definition in Argentina, where it’s been part of the country’s penal ...

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, ...