Overview
- The bill, introduced by Congresswoman Milagros Jáuregui with Alejandro Muñante and the Renovación Popular caucus, would delete the crime of feminicide and create a narrower offense limited to killing a spouse or partner.
- It would exclude gender-motivated killings by non-partners, with critics citing cases like Eyvi Ágreda, burned on a bus by a coworker, and Sheyla Cóndor, killed by a man with no relationship to her.
- Judges, victims’ families, and gender-rights groups denounced the plan as a rollback that ignores discriminatory motives like control and jealousy and conflicts with Peru’s duties under the Belém do Pará Convention.
- Legal experts warn the change could reduce sentences for people already convicted, because Peruvian criminal law applies the most lenient reform retroactively to those serving time.
- Advocates note Peru has recorded dozens of feminicides this year, and they warn that erasing the specific crime would distort statistics, weaken investigations, and hinder policies designed to prevent lethal violence against women.