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

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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 …

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

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

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

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…