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The Italian government approved a draft law that for the first time introduces the legal definition of femicide in the country’s criminal law and punishes it with life imprisonment.

The move, announced on the eve of International Women’s Day on Saturday, aims at tackling a shocking string of killings and violence targeting women in Italy through strengthening measures against gender-based crimes like stalking and revenge porn.

The proposal, agreed on late Friday, still needs to go through parliament and must be approved by both chambers to become law.

“This is an extremely significant bill, which introduces the crime of femicide in our legal system as an autonomous crime, punishing it with life imprisonment,” said conservative Premier Giorgia Meloni, who strongly backed the initiative.

“It introduces aggravating circumstances and increases sentences for crimes including personal mistreatment, stalking, sexual violence and revenge porn,” she said in a statement.

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[–] dzsimbo@lemm.ee 8 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

While domestic violence needs to be curbed, this somehow feels like a step back for feminism. Just the word itself.

The bill could emphasize domestic violence and the rape/murders. Mostly women are the victims, so they could have kept this ungendered. The only reason I see to specify femicide is because women are generally weaker and cannot defend themselves as well (please correct me if I'm wrong, as this seems to be the problematic part).

If it works, sure, let's do it. I want people to be able to walk on the street confidently. It just feels like a red flag.

[–] Distractor@lemm.ee 17 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Femicide is a specific type of homicide, under which women are killed because they are women i.e. the "fem" part relates to the motive, and only indirectly the victim's characteristics. Honour killings are a good example of this.

So this is good for feminism because it explicitly recognises and protects against crime that is driven by misogyny.

[–] dzsimbo@lemm.ee 3 points 17 hours ago

I guess if we can establish a protected class, it could deter violence. While I am the furthest thing from an Italian lawyer as possible, I highly doubt that there aren't a handful of laws already in place that couldn't be enforced to combat violence against women.

This could be a solid step in the right direction and enough to hand out harsher sentences where the motives are clearly misogynistic in nature.

Maybe I'm a bit in over my head, as I do have to think about the terminology, and many things come through fuzzy, to say it best. I just can't shake the notion that at best this is only a loaded signaling, at worst another loophole to somehow horrificly abuse.

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