The Fight Against Femicide: Victories and Setbacks in 2025 By Inés M. Pousadela Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec 27 2025 (IPS) - Hours before world leaders gathered in Johannesburg for the 2025 G20 summit in November, hundreds of South African women wearing black lay down in a city park for 15 minutes — one for each woman who loses her life every day to gender-based violence in the country. The striking visual protest was organised by a civil society organisation, Women for Change, which also gathered over a million signatures demanding the government declare gender-based violence (GBV) a national disaster. Hours later, the government acquiesced. https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/the-fight-against-femicide-victories-and-setbacks-in-2025/ Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.