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Violence against women has its origin in gender inequality, that is, in the position of
subordination, marginality and risk in which they find themselves compared to men.
The violent death of women for reasons of gender, typified in our penal system as
femicide, is the most extreme form of violence against women and one of the most
serious manifestations of discrimination against them. In our Federal Penal Code,
femicide is typified in article 325, which establishes the following:
"Anyone who deprives a woman of her life for reasons of gender commits the crime
of femicide. Gender reasons are considered to exist when any of the following
circumstances occur: The victim shows signs of sexual violence of any kind; The
victim has been inflicted with infamous or degrading injuries or mutilations, before or
after the deprivation of life or acts of necrophilia; There is a history or data of any
type of violence in the family, work or school environment, of the active subject
against the victim; There has existed between the asset and the victim a sentimental,
affective or trust relationship; There is data that establishes that there were threats
related to the criminal act, harassment or injuries of the active subject against the
victim; The victim has been held incommunicado, whatever the time prior to the
deprivation of life; The body of the victim exposed to the sea or exhibited in a public
place." Commonly, homicides committed against women are not investigated taking
into consideration that they could be femicides. For this reason, the Latin American
Model Protocol for the investigation of violent deaths of women due to gender
recommends that all violent deaths of women that in principle would seem to have
been caused by criminal reasons, suicide and accidents, must be analyzed from a
gender perspective, in order to determine whether or not there were gender reasons
in the cause of death and to be able to confirm or rule out the reason for it.