Femicide in Argentina: there were 225 deaths due to gender violence in nine months

He Femicide Observatory in Argentina announced that there was 225 femicides between January and September of this 2024. The data shows that every 28 hours a woman was murdered. The number remains a worrying trend nationwide.

The report highlights that, within the total figure, there were 202 linked femicides of women and girls, 3 lesbicides, 3 trans-transvesticides and 17 linked femicides of adult men and children. Ten of the cases happened in the last 10 days.

This index reflects that 255 sons and daughters were left without a motherof which 52% are minors. It also reveals that 54% of perpetrators are partners or ex-partners of the murdered women.

The observatory also shows that 60% of femicides occurred in the victims’ homewhich warns that the most unsafe place for women continues to be their own home. The majority shared the home with their attacker.

Buenos Aires continues to be the province with the most cases in the countrywith 81 femicides. Then, Santa Fe is ranked with 21 crimes, Córdoba with 14 and Chaco with 12, these being the four provinces that presented the most cases in total.

What situation were the victims in?

Within the data, the organization revealed the status of women before becoming victims, and what their perpetrators were like of femicide. In this way, it is perceived that:

• 29 victims had filed a complaint.
• 9 femicides had a precautionary preventive measure issued.
• 10 femicides belonged to or were former security forces.
• 21 victims had evidence of sexual abuse.
• 4 victims of alleged prostitution or trafficking.
• 3 victims were pregnant.
• 10 victims were immigrants.
• 27 femicides committed suicide.
• 16 victims were murdered in the context of drug crime.

The release of the Observatory

Along with the report that reveals the figures, the Femicide Observatory in Argentina expressed that they “are not just numbers, increase exponentially every month“and denounced that “the elimination of prevention and protection policies, the hate speeches that permeate part of a society that, although impoverished, vindicates patriarchal power by attacking women and diversities and that are also the most affected by the policies of adjustment, constitute a clear example of what we call Institutional Violence“.

“We see and hear an absolutely disinterested state on gender issues, ignoring a problem that is being worked on worldwide trying to achieve equity, equality, the eradication of teenage pregnancy, the modification of a patriarchal culture and the protection of those who are in situations of violence, among other issues “he claimed.

“A State that does not protect, ignores. A state that ignores, endorses,” he stated, and demanded that these events “should be news in all the media in the country, but with honorable exceptions, they go unnoticed between attacks and financial data.”

Then, they published a series of demands such as compliance with the “Micaela Law”, the full operation of the “National Plan for the Prevention of Unintentional Pregnancy”, compliance with law 26,485 in charge of preventing, punishing and eradicating violence against women. , that “the resources allocated to gender policies be detailed within the national budget” and that “a National Action Plan for the Prevention, Assistance and Eradication of Violence against Women be presented.”