The Argentine Justice Minister, Mariano Cúneo Libarona, has announced that the Government will eliminate the figure of feminicide of the Criminal Code. To do this, he has justified it that “feminism It is a distortion of the concept of equality “.
The minister has referred to the statements of Argentine President Javier Milei, in the Davos World Economic Forum where directly questioned the figure of feminicide And he considered that “in fact legalizes that a woman’s life is worth more than that of a man.”
This decision is in parallel with An offensive by the Argentine Executive against public policies for the attention and protection of women Since Milei arrived at the presidency more than a year ago, on December 10, 2023.
According to the Milei government, feminism “seeks privileges”
Cneo has assured that feminism “seeks privileges by putting one half of the population against the other” and added that it has been used “for years to women To fill your pockets And to explode man “but” regardless of our sex, we are all the same before the law and deserve the same protection and respect. “
The elimination of feminicide of the Criminal Code is a modification of Law 26,791, which since 2012 during the Government of Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) imposes the perpetual seclusion To whom “a woman when the fact is perpetrated by a man and mediar gender violence.”
Javier Milei has expressed his opposition What He calls derogatory “Gender ideology“The 2030 Agenda, which has as one of its objectives the equality between men and women.
The data offered by the Milei government are not real
When Milei took power, one of his first decisions was eliminate the ministry of women, gender and diversity, as well as the Undersecretariat of Protection against Gender Violence, which gave assistance to the victims, and also reduced the hierarchy of the direction in charge of line 144 to denounce cases of sexist violence.
In 2024, Argentina registered between 255 and 294 femicides according to organizations consulted by EFE and what contradict official figures. On the one hand, women of the Latin American matria counted 255 feminicides (one every 34 hours) and 604 attempts of femicide, while the Violence Observatory Mercedes Pagnutti accounted for up to 294 deaths for sexist violence.
These data contradict those provided by the Government, which They show a 10% decrease of femicides last year.
