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NEWS CENTER – After 14-year-old Chiara Paéz's boyfriend killed her when he found out she was pregnant, Argentinian women are planning a massive march on the congress to protest the continuing impunity for femicide in the country.

Chiara was found buried under her 16-year-old boyfriend's family home on Monday. Her boyfriend, Manuel, confessed that he had killed her after he learned she was pregnant. After her father noted that his hockey-playing daughter could not have been killed by one young man in the tiny family home, four more of Manuel's relatives were taken under arrest. They are suspected with aiding in the killing and disposal of the body.

Argantine women have been showing their outrage on social media with the hashtag #NiUnaMenos. Femicide is not new to the Argentine agenda; the government passed a law recognizing it as a crime in itself in 2009, yet lack of enforcement has meant the rate has not declined. According to the citizen observation institution La Casa de Encuentro (the state collects no official figures), a woman is killed once every 31 hours in Argentina. At least 277 women were killed in 2014 in killings the media often legitimizes as "crimes of passion" or "killings for love."

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