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

Indonesian Minister of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) plans to create regulations to handle femicide cases ...

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In a major setback in the fight against gender-based violence, Argentinian President Javier Milei's government has announced it will repeal the crime of femicide from the penal code.

It is possible that there are unreported cases of femicide in addition to the four (4) young women who have already lost their lives to it. For many Kenyan women, the current situation is akin to ...

Femicide, or feminicide in some cases ... with 21,700 women and girls killed, followed by Asia with 18,500 cases. The Americas reported 8,300 cases, while Europe and Oceania had much lower ...

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.

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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 ...