Argentina’s two civil-society observatories each counted 200 deaths from gender violence in the first nine months of 2026. At the same time, the national government’s 2027 budget bill didn’t mention two national support programs for survivors. The tallies amount to roughly one woman, girl or trans person killed every 33 hours, according to Ahora Que Sí Nos Ven.
These figures come from civil-society monitoring, not the official registry. Ahora Que Sí Nos Ven published its count through 29 September, as El Destape reported on 3 October. MuMaLá reached the same total through 30 September, La Lupa reported. Both groups track press reports, though they use slightly different methods and cutoff dates.
The toll and its reach
Ahora Que Sí Nos Ven classified 167 deaths as direct femicides, 20 as linked femicides—people killed to punish a woman or while trying to protect her, often relatives—seven as instigations to suicide, and six as killings of trans women or travestis. The group also recorded 306 attempted femicides.
In 64% of cases in that tally, the alleged killer was a partner or former partner. Forty-one percent of attacks happened in the victim’s own home, while 23.5% occurred in a home shared by the victim and alleged killer. Fourteen percent of victims had previously reported their attacker. At least 202 children and adolescents lost their mothers.
MuMaLá counted 654 attempted killings and 157 children left without their mothers. It said 12% of victims had reported their attacker, and three in four of those victims had a protection order. Six percent of alleged killers belonged to the security forces. The groups define attempts differently, which explains the gap between their attempted-killing totals.
The official registry, which the Office for Women at the Supreme Court compiles from court files, recorded 200 direct femicide victims in 2025 and 19 linked victims. On 29 May 2026, the court said the 2025 direct-victim count was 12.3% below the 228 recorded in 2024. The 2025 rate was 0.85 victims per 100,000 women, or about one every 44 hours. Court files and press monitoring capture cases differently, so those official and civil-society figures aren’t directly comparable.
Public support under pressure
Ahora Que Sí Nos Ven linked the deaths to cuts in prevention policy under President Javier Milei, who abolished the women’s ministry after taking office in December 2023. The observatory said the 2027 budget bill didn’t mention Línea 144 or the Acompañar programme. Congress hadn’t yet voted on the bill.
Línea 144, created in 2013, is the national helpline for victims of gender violence. Acompañar, launched in 2020, pays survivors the equivalent of the minimum wage for six months. Both depend on national funding. “The resurgence of gender violence comes as Milei deepens the dismantling of the public policies meant to prevent it,” Ahora Que Sí Nos Ven said. MuMaLá described a “state of emergency” and linked it to economic hardship.
Courts and organized opposition
The Supreme Court was weighing an appeal over the 2016 killing of Julieta González in Mendoza province. Andrés Di Césare received a life sentence for aggravated homicide in a context of gender violence. His defence argued that the femicide clause should apply only to partners or former partners.
Women’s groups filed briefs asking the court not to narrow the clause, Chaco Ahora reported. Ahora Que Sí Nos Ven warned that a narrow interpretation could mean lighter sentences for gender killings by acquaintances or strangers. The ruling was pending. Under Argentine law, femicide is the killing of a woman by a man in a context of gender violence; since 2012, the penal code has punished it with life imprisonment.
The official registry for 2026 was due in 2027. For the same nine months of 2025, Ahora Que Sí Nos Ven had recorded 287 attempted femicides and 149 orphaned children. Argentina gave rise in 2015 to Ni Una Menos, a Latin American movement against gender violence.