EFE.- Feminist and Human Rights of Argentina rejected the statements of President Javier Milei in the Davos World Economic Forum (Switzerland), a speech they described as “discriminatory, homophobic and denialist” of the figure of femicide, the community LGTBI+ and child sexual violence.
In his statements, the president questioned the fight against femicides, suggesting that “legalizes that a woman’s life is worth more than that of a man” and classified feminism as a “distortion.”
“These statements, added to the intention of eliminating the legal figure of femicide of the Argentine Criminal Code, invisible the multiple violence faced by women and girls,” said the civil association committed to human rights and the protection of childhood, Aralma in A statement.
After the words of Milei, the Argentine Justice Minister, Mariano Cúneo Libarona, announced this Friday that the Government will eliminate the figure of feminicide from the Criminal Code under the argument that “feminism is a distortion of the concept of equality.”
“The extreme violence that ends in femicides, are not common crimes, but crimes with a specific gender component that must be recognized and approached,” they added from the entity.
According to the numbers of the Civil Organization, the House of the Meeting, specialized in the approach of violence against women and childhoods and human trafficking, closed 2024 with 318 victims of gender violence, one every 27 hours and about 343 daughters and Children were orphaned as a mother.
The feminist organization women of the Latin American matria (Mumala) remarked in a press release that the criminal scales of femicides were discussed in a democratic debate within the constitutional parameters and human rights treaties, where feminicide was included to differentiate themselves from the “common crimes.”
A modification of Law 26,791 of the Argentine Criminal Code included the figure of ‘femicide’ (feminicide) since 2012 and imposes perpetual seclusion who kill “a woman when the fact is perpetrated by a man and mediare gender violence.”
“Milei denies the violence that kills us daily and intends to erase the advances that feminisms and society all, in legislative matters, to make visible and punish extreme machismo,” expressed from Mumala.
The Argentine president also cited a judicial case of a homosexual couple in the United States in his speech in Davos to exemplify that “gender ideology is child abuse” and associated LGTBI+ people with pedophilia.
The Aralma association stressed that “this type of speech is not only deeply homophobic and discriminatory, but also encourages stigma and hate towards a historically violated community.”
According to data from the institution, at present one in five girls and one in seven boys in the world are victims of sexual abuse, which means that every second, three girls and two boys suffer sexual violence.
From Aralma they demanded that the president retract his statements and cease hate speeches against the LGTBI+community, recognize and address gender violence and femicides as specific problems that require effective policies and prioritize the protection of childhoods against sexual abuse and violence in all its forms.
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