Argentinian Government's Controversial Move to Repeal Femicide Laws
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The Argentinian government will repeal femicide laws, sparking concerns over the impact on gender-based violence efforts.
By Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Monash University
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.
In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, Milei dismissed femicide laws as a product of "woke" culture and called "radical feminism" a distortion.
