Country Argentina
Year 2017
Type of Measure Institutional mechanisms
Form of Violence Violence against women and girls

Brief Description


Observatory for Symbolic and Media Violence  (Observatorio de Violencia Simbólica y Mediática) was created in 2017 within the framework of Law 26,485 art. 5. Its general objective is to promote the removal of sociocultural patterns that promote and sustain gender inequality and power relations over women in the media.

Source of Information

Argentina's submission for National Review for Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, Beijing+25, 2019.