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Brazil Allows Adult Women to Buy Pepper Spray

Buyer checks plus retailer traceability are required, with Anvisa tasked to set product concentration and container limits.

Mexico Proposes National Law to Homogenize and Toughen Feminicide Rules

Judge Sentences Marlon Botas to 70 Years for the Feminicide of Monserrat Bendimes

Sheinbaum Sends Bill to Congress to Uniform Feminicidio Law Across Mexico

Two Women Killed in Brazil as Suspects Are Detained and Cases Investigated as Feminicides

Colombia Detains British Suspect as Necropsy Confirms Blunt-Force Trauma in Villalba Case

Supreme Court Declines to Review 'Fofo' Márquez Case

Court Opens Five-Day Instruction Hearing for Military Officer Accused of Killing Wife

Two Alleged Hitmen Arrested in Colima for Mérida Shooting

Peru Publishes Most-Wanted List of 31 Fugitives Accused of Feminicide

Mexico City Police Detain Suspect in Death of UAM Xochimilco Student

Mexican Wrestler ‘El Cuatrero’ Sentenced to 12 Years 8 Months for Attempted Femicide

São Paulo Reports Q1 Surge: 86 Feminicides, 142 Killed by Police in Service

Ceará Teen’s Killing Probed as Femicide as Judge Orders Preventive Detention

Mexico Validates Constitutional Reform to Enable a National Femicide Law

States Begin Ratifying Mexico’s Feminicide Reform, Setting Up National Law

Mexican Senate Approves Constitutional Reform to Enable National Femicide Law

Mexico Reports Fewer Violent Deaths of Women

Senate Takes Up Sheinbaum’s Constitutional Reform to Enable a National Femicide Law

Brazil's Misogyny Bill Moves to Lower House as First Lady Presses for Quick Vote