Milei government plans to remove femicide from Argentina penal code

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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 Cuneo 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".