Italy’s parliament has approved a law that introduces femicide into the country’s criminal law and punishes it with life in prison.

Italy’s parliament on Tuesday approved a law that introduces femicide into the country’s criminal law and punishes it with life in prison.

The vote coincided with the international day for the elimination of violence against women, a day designated by the U.N. General Assembly.

The law won bipartisan support from the center-right majority and the center-left opposition in the final vote in the Lower Chamber, passing with 237 votes in favor.

The law, backed by the conservative government of Premier Giorgia Meloni, comes in response to a series of killings and other violence targeting women in Italy. It includes stronger measures against gender-based crimes including stalking and revenge porn.

  • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    laws like this prevent violent misogynists from hurting more women.

    As would a more general law.

    If women perpetuated this kind of violence at significant rates, then there should be another law for that case.

    We don’t need another with a general, nondiscriminatory law.

    but they chose the wording they did as a strong stance against a rash of sexually motivated violence against women right now.

    It would have cost nothing to word it without pinning down the victim’s gender. It likely would have been easier to pass, too. This is a deliberately discriminatory law. Discrimination is unjust.