Milei government plans to remove femicide from Argentina penal code

Source: The Guardian

Milei government plans to remove femicide from Argentina penal code

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Harriet Barber
Wed 29 Jan 2025 10.30 GMT
Last modified on Wed 29 Jan 2025 10.32 GMT

Femicide will be struck from Argentina’s penal code, according to a vow from the administration of Javier Milei, the president. It is his administration’s latest attack on women’s rights.

Mariano Cúneo Libarona, the justice minister, said the government will “eliminate the figure of femicide from the Argentine penal code” adding that feminism was a “distortion of the concept of equality”.

“This administration defends equality before the law enshrined in our national constitution. No life is worth more than another,” Cúneo Libarona said.

Femicide – the murder by a man of a woman in the context of gender violence – was added to the penal code as an aggravating factor of homicides in 2012, and is punishable with life imprisonment.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/29/argentina-femicide-womens-rights-law