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The Guardian - US
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Harriet Barber

Milei government plans to remove femicide from Argentina penal code

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Women protest against femicide in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 3 June 2024. Photograph: Ricardo Ceppi/Getty Images

Femicide will be struck from Argentina’s penal code, according to a vow from the administration of Javier Milei, the president. It is his administration’s latest attack on women’s rights.

Mariano Cúneo Libarona, the justice minister, said the government will “eliminate the figure of femicide from the Argentine penal code” adding that feminism was a “distortion of the concept of equality”.

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