After government announcement, what can be expected from the treatment of femicides in Argentina

After being consulted on how they evaluate from justice the treatment of murders to women for the future, Minister Cúneo Libarona said that “the idea is to punish violence towards all. Especially. Children, elderly and vulnerable“After their statements, he expanded that with this measure they seek to” protect life, freedom, property “and” guardianship the family. “

In addition, other sources of the portfolio affirmed to this medium: “We come to protect women and all seriously. We do not stop recognizing domestic violence. We do not distinguish for sex. “On the death of women at the hands of a couple or ex -partner, from the Justice portfolio they affirmed that “That is already aggravated by the link” and that they do not plan to modify it.

They also pointed against previous efforts to the Freedom Avanza (lla): “Public policies carried out by previous governments failed loudly. Millions of dollars came out, they quickly transformed the real problem into a business.”

Femicide in a structural context

The researcher and teacher specialized in criminal law and gender of the University of Palermo (UP), Agustina Rodríguez, He affirmed that this type of modifications “would imply the violation of international commitments that our country assumed by subscribing to different conventions that aim to show the seriousness of kill a woman in a context of structural discrimination“

Rodríguez pointed out that it is difficult to see or think about the implications of this decision -what a public policy -in the short term but that they happen “after a long and consolidated process of reforms” after warning that women dead in hands -special men -in special, of their Couples and ex-partners- are victims of a “specific, structural, serious, and sustained phenomenon that was given global.”

The loss of this figure legally speaking entails – in general – an “undervaluation” of the behavior that produces it: in this case, the fact that a man kills a woman. The criminal sanction on a behavior is a sample of social reprobation and, for Rodríguez, “Modifying that message sends the permissibility signal of its realization.”

At a particular level, he argues that “dismantles public prevention and accompaniment policies that only make sense if they are thought specificallyand not within the other homicides (including the other homicides of women for other reasons such as robberies, for example). “

For its part, the general director of the Observatory now that they do see us, Raquel Vivancohe affirmed to this medium that “femicides are the most extreme expression of sexist violence” and describes the figure as “A” installed “political term to name the murders committed against women for their gender status“

Vivanco evaluates that “it will not be easy to eliminate this aggravating penalty of the Criminal Code Because they do not have the correlation of necessary forces within the Congress“In addition, he added that with this measure they want to take the country” a century ago in human rights, “but that from the organization they have confidence in the advances given. Finally, he concludes: “We are not going to allow them to sweep historical conquests in the field of recognition of human rights, women and the LGBTIQ+community.”