Overview
- The Senate, which voted unanimously Tuesday, approved a change to Article 73 that authorizes Congress to draft a General Law on femicide.
- The measure now moves to the Chamber of Deputies and later must be validated by a majority of state congresses before a unified law can take effect.
- The blueprint sets one national definition and requires that every violent death of a woman be investigated as a femicide case from the start, with round‑the‑clock investigative shifts that critics say need dedicated funding.
- Penalties and aggravating factors would be standardized nationwide, with prison terms of about 40 to 70 years and additional fines.
- Officials cite more than 26,600 women killed from 2018 to 2025, with about 6,781 cases investigated as femicide, to show how uneven classifications fuel impunity.