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Italy approves draft law targeting femicide with punishment of up to life in prison

The Italian government approved a draft law that defines femicide and punishes it with life imprisonment, aiming to address violence against women in Italy.
This initiative addresses violence against women in Italy and enhances penalties for gender-based crimes such as stalking and revenge porn.
In 2024, the Italian Interior Ministry recorded 113 femicides, with a significant number committed by family members or partners.
Conservative Premier Giorgia Meloni called the bill significant for introducing femicide as an autonomous crime in the legal system.

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The woman is no better than the man. Why the crime of femicide is not good (by M. De Vivo)

Violence has no gender, it is an issue that concerns the human being as such, and if the dominant culture can influence actions,...

2 days ago·Italy

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Italy approves draft law punishing feminicide with life imprisonment

The Italian Council of Ministers approved on Friday a draft law introducing the crime of femicide, and making it punishable by life imprisonment. Under the proposed legislation, femicide is defined as causing the death of a woman as an act of discrimination or hatred because she is a woman, or with the view to repress her rights, freedoms, or expression of personality. The law provides for additional aggravating circumstances including personal …

In Italy, femicide will automatically be subject to life imprisonment for the perpetrators

The government of Giorgia Meloni introduces an independent case into Italian criminal law. For other specifically committed crimes against women, penalties are also tightened.

3 days ago·Vienna, Austria

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7 out of 10 femicides leave children in orphanhood

In 75 per cent of the cases of femicide in Pa s, v ctima leaves at least one child in an orphan's situation.

3 days ago·Mexico City, Mexico

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Meloni gets tougher on femicide

Italy’s Council of Ministers, led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, has just presented a radical new bill to parliament to make ‘femicide’ a crime of its own, with the aim to combat violence against women with harsher penalties. The bill aims to amend the Criminal Code and address what the government calls a ‘dramatic phenomenon’ of gender-based violence in Italy. What it seeks to define is… Source

3 days ago·Spain

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Italy passes draft femicide law to make the hate killing of women it's own crime

Protesters attending the demonstration and participating in the minute of noise against violence on women following the femicide of Giulia Cecchettin in Piazza Castello (Picture: NurPhoto via Getty Images) Italy has approved a draft law to introduce a legal definition of femicide into the country’s criminal justice system, with life sentences proposed for those convicted. The move, announced on the eve of International Women’s Day, aims to tackl…

4 days ago·London, United Kingdom

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