What Australia can learn from Latin America when it comes to tackling violence against women

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What Australia can learn from ****** America when it comes to tackling ********* against women

by Luis Gómez Romero and María de la Macarena Iribarne González,

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Fifty years ago, *********** feminist Anne Summers

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“the ideology of sexism” governing over so many women’s lives. Unfortunately, sexism is as lethal today as it was then.

Thousands have

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across Australia in recent weeks demanding greater action against the violent deaths of women. In response, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

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the country not only has change its legal system, but also its culture. These changes, he said, must be pursued in the long term, “year after year.”

In ****** America, governments have been doing exactly this for years. Nearly all countries in the region have passed laws that have criminalized either

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(the gendered ******** of women and ******).

****** America still has some of the

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in the world due to

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,

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and

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. And femicides, in particular,

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compared to other parts of the world.

However, Central and South America

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yearly from 2017 to 2022, by 10% and 8% respectively. Though much work ******** to be done, many hope this is a step in the right direction.

So, why has the ****** ********* model been successful, and what can Australia learn from it?

What exactly is femicide and feminicide?

In 1801,

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first used the term “femicide” to describe any ******* of a woman. The concept did not evolve to its current meaning, however, until the 1970s when the feminist author Diana Russell

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at the International Tribunal on ******* Against Women in Belgium.

Inspired by the unpublished work of fellow feminist Carol Orlock, Russell

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as the ******** of women by men because they are women. She framed the violent killings of women as arising from the patriarchy—femicidal ********* was the most extreme form of male ********* and control over the female body.

In the 1990s, Marcela Lagarde, a ******** feminist and anthropologist, translated Russell’s concept to Spanish. In doing so, she

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“femicide” into “feminicide” (feminicidio).

This coincided with the

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of young women’s bodies—many showing signs of beatings, ***** and mutilation—in the desert outside Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. The nature of the killings suggested the women had been punished for

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by achieving economic independence and enjoying ******* freedom.

******** civil servants

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in their investigations of the murders. The government was also indifferent to the ******* and ******* to enforce policies to prevent more killings. The victims were frequently labeled as **** workers or involved in the ***** trade.

In Lagarde’s view, the ******** of the ******** state to protect women’s lives made it ultimately complicit in reinforcing and normalizing ********* against women. She then redefined “feminicide” as a

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if public officials fail to properly address gender discrimination and do not adequately punish offenders of ******* ********* and other *******.

Her work was hugely influential in the feminist movement in ****** America. It also led to the passing of the

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in 2007. Today, the terms femicide and feminicide are used interchangeably in ****** ********* and international human rights law.

Vivir Quintana’s Canción sin Miedo.

A societal change in Mexico

In ****** ********* countries, femicide is considered a hate ****** that specifically requires a

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to enforcement.

In 2009, for example, the Inter-********* Court of Human Rights

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Mexico in violation of women’s rights to life and non-discrimination for failing to prevent, investigate, prosecute and punish femicides in Ciudad Juárez. The government was required not only to implement stronger measures to prevent similar ******* from occurring, but also to offer the victims reparations.

This was not aimed purely at restitution for the victims. The ruling was also intended to begin rectifying the discrimination and systemic ********* that has enabled countless other men to commit femicide in the country.

After the ruling, the ******** government

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to align its laws and policies with its obligations to protect the rights of women under

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and

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In doing this, Mexico adopted a broad

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to all of its laws, examining the inequalities and discrimination women encounter in their everyday lives.

For example, in several cities, catcalling and other forms of public harassment have been

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. Public officials are required to

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to ensure they effectively apply gender equality in their work and policies.

The courts also have a

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in deciding cases. Gender parity in government bodies is also ensured through a strict

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at the federal and state level. Both leading candidates in next month’s presidential election are women—a

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How other countries are following suit

Thanks to the work of activists, the criminalization of femicide has spread

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After femicide was

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, it sparked a grassroots feminist movement called

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. Several years later, the discovery of a 14-year-old pregnant girl’s body in the patio of her boyfriend’s family home

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. Argentina then created

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that also includes trans women.

Responding to activists’ calls for further action, the Argentine Congress passed the

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in 2019, which requires all levels of government to train officials on ********* against women. The act was named after Micaela García, a “Ni Una Menos” member who was ****** and ******* in 2017.

The movement also called for a stronger gender perspective on media coverage of femicides and gender issues more broadly. As a result, the daily newspaper, Clarín, became the first mainstream news outlet in Argentina

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“Ni Una Menos” has since grown into a

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. In Mexico, it inspired the musician Vivir Quintana to compose Canción sin Miedo (Fearless Song) to raise awareness of femicides in Mexico.

These ideas are starting to spread beyond ****** America, too. Last year, the ********* Institute for Gender Equality

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to respond to gender-based ********* in ********* Union countries. So far, only

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have such a ******: Cyprus and Malta.

This concept, developed in the Global South, could provide hope now to *********** women—a shared path of sorority toward a life free from the ***** of gender-based *********.

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