International Women's Day

Femicide numbers are not decreasing and Argentina lacks the effective government policies to prevent them. The State – and the Judiciary – has an ...

This figures show the incalculable effect that femicide has on a family and the environment in which it occurs. According to the data, 97.1 percent of cases correspond to domestic violence, with 1.3 percent a result of workplace violence and 1.2 percent defined as institutional violence. According to the study, Argentina was one of the first 10 countries to ratify Convention 190 of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which obliges the state to protect women from harassment and violence in the workplace. In 2021, the National Registry of Femicides reported 231 femicides (i.e. Despite the introduction of a 2009 law that provides for comprehensive measures to prevent and punish violence against women, impunity for homicides remains a serious problem. A trial for the femicide of Lucia Pérez, the 16-year-old girl who was drugged, sexually abused and murdered in Mar del Plata in 2016, is entering its final stages.