At least 18 of the 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have adopted femicide laws since 2007. Before these laws were enacted, the killing of women and girls were treated under the ...

The body parts were used to confirm the victim's identity earlier this week and it emerged her cause of death was likely due ...

and #NiUnaMenos in Latin America, fighting to end this violence. Femicide is broadly understood as the killing of a woman or girl because of her gender—the most extreme form of gender-based ...

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.

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.