Argentina’s Minister of Justice, Mariano Cúneo Libarona, announced on Friday the closing of 13 programs that worked under the orbit of the former Ministry of Women, Genres and Diversity for “Ideological”, among which are destined to prevent violence for gender reasons.
“We eliminate 13 ideological programs created by Kirchnerism, financed by all Argentines,” the minister wrote in his X account and said that the measure will allow estimated savings of more than 6,000 million pesos annually.
Among those eliminated are the interministerial program of integral approach to extreme violence, whose objective was to prevent femicides, transvestites and transfemicides through coordination between security forces, the judicial system and public health services.
The program approaches rights was also suppressed, aimed at attending LGBTI+ women in a situation of gender violence, providing legal, psychological and social accompaniment, and derivation to protection devices.
Cúneo Libarona highlighted the culmination of the menstrual program, which he described as “unusual”, which promoted equal access to sustainable menstrual products – as menstrual glasses and reusable wipes – through their free distribution throughout the country.
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The Ministry of Women had been created in 2019 during the presidency of Alberto Fernández (2019-2023), with the aim of developing public policies focused on gender equality, the eradication of violence and access to rights for women and diversities. He was dissolved by the current government in December 2023.
Since its assumption, the Milei government promoted a strong fiscal adjustment agenda, state deregulation and elimination of structures considered unnecessary or motivated by “ideologies.”
When Libarona announced the closure of the Ministry of Women, he said that the government “does not disregard” the situations of violence, but that the approach will be done from a new perspective, focused on “the containment from the family nucleus” and in policies “without ideologies imposed.”
However, various social, feminist and human rights organizations warn that these cuts directly affect women of vulnerable populations.
In Argentina, a woman is murdered every 35 hours for gender violence, according to observatory figures now that they see us. Organizations fear that institutional emptying aggravates the situation.
With EFE information
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