With a complaint to the government, they carry out a new Ni una Menos march: place and time

Today they killed a woman in Argentina. Tomorrow they are going to kill another one. And so on every 35 hours. There were already 127 victims of femicide between January and May of this year. 152 days, 127 people murdered for being women, gay, transvestite/transAccording to the latest report of the Femicide Observatory directed by the La Casa del Encuentro Civil association.

Behind those numbers are stories of great pain, destroyed families, sons and daughters left without a mother. But even more dramatic is to understand that, with some small fluctuations, The death toll has remained stable for at least a decade.

It is highlighted in National Registry of Femicide which is the Supreme Court The Court of Justice released this Friday: “The data collected since 2014 show considerable stability in the rates of direct femicide. From an initial figure of 1.03 direct femicide victims per 100,000 women in 2014, it rises to 1.05 in 2023, with only slightly lower levels in 2021 (0.99) and 2022 (0.96), at least in these 10 years, taking into account the possible underreporting of the first years and subsequent updates 2,446 direct victims of femicideAn average of about 245 per year.”

Those who kill, where they kill, when they kill, they also do not change. In 88% of murders of women in 2023, the victim knew the attacker: 64% were couples, ex-partners or some other type of sexual-emotional relationship; 12% were family members, such as father, stepfather, brother, in-law, ex-stepfather, son-in-law, brother-in-law, and another 12% had other types of relationships, such as friend, client, neighbor, co-worker, employer. Weekends are the most dangerous days to be a woman: As in previous years, in 2023 almost every Sunday saw a femicide attack somewhere in the country; and 3 out of 4 incidents occurred inside a home.

In conversation with Infobae, María Delia Castañares, Legal Secretary of the Women’s Office of the Supreme Courtshares the complexity of the approach: “With the National Registry of Femicide we try to provide data that can be used for prevention. For example, the fact that 25% of cases are committed with firearms provides data where state agencies can prevent: if a woman reports that they are used in acts of violence, it is very important to take action to seize these weapons. Also ask these questions when taking complaints. On the other hand, it appeared that many security measures were not in place. Then, having special legal sponsorship that follows up the cases after a complaint is filed and tells us to further take measures if the risk persists is very necessary. The fact that the incidents occur mostly on weekends, in the mornings and inside homes tells us that as a society we all have to be careful and not underestimate it if we hear arguments, shouts and demands for police intervention. Because this is an issue where citizen participation is undoubtedly as necessary as state action.”

Natalia Gherardi, Executive Director of the Latin American Justice and Gender Team (ELA)puts forward an even more discouraging scenario: “Clearly, the number of femicide still does not reflect significant progress. But we have documented and know directly how many cases were assisted, how many women were able to escape situations of violence, how many girls and adolescents grew up in better conditions. It is incomprehensible to me how the national State imagines that it will achieve better results by abandoning the management and leadership of violence prevention and attention policies. The responsibility of provinces and municipalities does not absolve the national State of responsibility. It is necessary to activate a coordinated action plan with the different jurisdictions, with good public communication, informing the task forces they have and the government’s plan of action proposed for the next years. The economic crisis is only going to increase the insecurity of many women.”

With the aim of knowing the current state of public policies against gender-based violence, ELA examined the implementation at the provincial and municipal levels of the main programs operated with the previous Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity (MMGYD) and These were in force when Xavier Miley took office.

Among the consequences, it appears that: between December 2023 and the end of February 2024, there were fewer than eight thousand new registrations in the “Akompanar” program, created to strengthen the economic independence of women and LGBTI+ in situations of gender-based violence, through economic and psychosocial support; the quarterly execution of the current budget for Line 144 was reduced by 25.52%, a tool that provides care, prevention and advice to people in situations of gender-based violence through a free telephone service, WhatsApp, email and video calls; and the current Ministry of Human Capital has not published to date any information on how many executives from each national public sector organization have undergone the mandatory training in gender and gender violence established by the Michaela Law. Presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni also announced the completion of 619 contracts under the ENIA plan, the public policy that achieved a reduction of approximately 50% in the specific adolescent fertility rate in three years.

But the feminist movement not only rejects the state’s abandonment of women, homosexuals and transvestites. Nine years after the first The social outbreak of Ni una menosOne of the biggest concerns of this time is the repeated attacks and neglect of the gender equality agenda by the government.

within the framework of World Economic Forum In the Swiss city of Davos, Miley said that the radical feminism agenda “only resulted in more intervention by the State to hinder the economic process and give jobs to bureaucrats who contribute nothing to society”; at the end of February, the use of inclusive language was banned in national public administration documents; current minister Diana Mondino once knew how to compare same-sex marriage to having lice; and a few days earlier, in a press conference, Adorni described it as “inappropriate” to talk about the aggression and hate crime of four lesbians in the Barracas neighborhood “when violence is more widespread.”

Jesse Hernandez is an LGBT+ activist and a member of Autoconvocades Lesbianas por Barracas, a group created after Justo Fernando Barrientos set fire to a family hotel room where two lesbian couples were staying together. Pamela Cobbas, Roxana Figueroa and Andrea Amarante died with burns covering 75% of their bodies. Sofia Castro Riglos is the only woman to survive the act motivated by hatred towards her sexual orientation.

“Violence towards the LGBT community has always existed, but at this time it has increased because we have people in power who in one way or another support or reinforce hateful thinking towards our community and thus promote aggression. We feel the violence in the streets and it is reflected in our daily lives. Four classmates were set on fire for the simple fact of being homosexual; in Catamarca we have the case of Cucu, a lesbian woman attacked by her boss, who had a deformed septum and lost her vision. These are not isolated cases and they generate fear because the first thing that comes to mind is that the next person could be me. Sleeping with your partner became a privilege, holding hands or kissing in the street also became a privilege,” says Hernández.

year ago sandra chahar Communication for Equality, the organization it chairs, closely follows the intrinsic relationship between hate speech and physical violence: “Human rights treaties state that when there is hate speech it does not necessarily lead to physical violence, but violence is always physical, especially if it involves violence against a group that is stigmatized before the hate speech is committed and stigmatized. Another important variable is the status of the subject who issues it. So when Miley or one of her officials makes offensive public statements, the social impact is enormous because they legitimize violence precisely because they legitimize violence.

A new call against gender violence would be this Monday, June 3, at Congress starting at 4:30 p.m.and throughout the day in different parts of the country. The denunciation of the abolition of gender policies, the request for justice for the Barracas massacre and the rejection of the institutionalization of hate speech are among the main slogans of the ninth anniversary of Ni Una Menos, a desperate social cry for Stop killing us.