CIVICUS discusses attacks on women’s and LGBTQI+ people’s rights with Natalia Gherardi, Executive Director of the Latin American Team on Justice and Gender (ELA), an Argentinean civil society organisation that works at the regional level.
On 1 February, LGBTQI+ and women’s rights organisations mobilised thousands of people in major Argentine cities to reject President Javier Milei’s hate speech. Days earlier, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Milei had denounced ‘radical feminism’ and ‘gender ideology’. His proposals, in line with Donald Trump’s anti-gender agenda, include dismantling diversity, equality and inclusion policies and removing femicide from the Penal Code as an aggravating factor in homicide sentences.
