Overview
- The Supreme Court’s Oficina de la Mujer this week released the Compendio de Jurisprudencia sobre Femicidios 2026, which assembles 24 selected rulings from 2020–2025.
- The document shows courts consistently using a gender perspective and citing international treaties and national laws to define femicide as the product of prior domination and control.
- Three cases in the compendium found provincial civil liability for state omissions, including the Mendoza judgment in the 2020 killing of 14-year-old Florencia Romano and the province’s 2023 payment of 12 million pesos to her family.
- The compendium records that criminal courts frequently convict for aggravated homicide with life sentences and that judges accept indirect evidence—prior complaints, expert reports and attacker behavior—to prove gender-motivated killings.
- By systematizing standards for proving femicide and for state duty to prevent and respond, the collection aims to guide judges nationally and could increase civil claims and reforms to emergency, police and judicial procedures that affect survivors and victims’ families.