New statistics released have signalled that femicides and gender-based violence against women and the LGBTQ+ community are increasing in Argentina. In the first four months of 2025, the number of femicides in Argentina increased by 15% compared to the same period in 2024.

The report by the Observatory of Women, Dissidents, and Rights of the organization MuMaLá provided an overview of the cases that occurred during the year to date.

It found that in the first three months of 2025, 76 women were murdered while there were 257 attempted femicides in the country. More than half of these were committed by the victims’ partners or ex-partners. The average age of the victims was 43 while five percent of the women were classed as girls and adolescents. 

Once again, the most frequently occurring use of violence was associated with a victim’s close relationship. The report indicated that 51% of all perpetrators were or are the victim’s partner. 

Meanwhile, of the 76 femicides of women and the LGBTQ+ community, 66 were direct femicides, with four related to it in an indirect way. 

Five were due to drug trafficking or organized crime, while one was considered a suicide directly linked to the gender-specific violence that the victim had endured. 

“A critical and persistent situation of gender-based violence is revealed throughout Argentina, with no public policies to address it,” warned the Observatory before directly pointing at President Javier Milei and his attack on gender policies, which he has in the past referred to as “gender ideology.” 

In the first three months of 2024, 66 women were murdered for gender-based reasons in Argentina. Records from 2025 show this as a sharp increase in violence against women.

“Since Milei took office, not only have femicides not decreased, but the vulnerability of women and LGBTQ+ people has worsened with the elimination of public policies and the promotion of hate speech.”

Geographically, femicides occurred in 15 of the 24 provinces of Argentina. With the highest population in the country, the province of Buenos Aires led with 36. However, it was the increasing rates in other provinces that gave a substantial indication that femicides and gender-based violence was becoming more widespread than previously thought across the country. Increases were found in Tierra del Fuego, Chaco, Río Negro, Santa Cruz and Mendoza. 

Following the release of the figures the Observatory has called for a “National Emergency in Gender-Based Violence” in Argentina.