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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.

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[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It sounds like it's killing someone specifically because they are a woman and not for another reason. So, intent is what they're trying to target here.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Yet we don't find the same applies to men

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world -2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

It does. Laws like this are always written gender neutral. Same thing with laws banning discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. It's just as illegal to fire someone for being straight as it is to fire them for being gay.

These laws are always written to protect everyone. But conservatives such as yourself will read a headline and then whine about minority groups receiving "special treatment."

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 57 minutes ago* (last edited 52 minutes ago)

This is false as far as I can tell; the change is to the Italian Penal Code, specifically Article 577. I can't find a primary source for the text of the change, but all secondary sources (example) I've read say that the life sentence applies "when the act is committed as an act of hatred or discrimination or prevarication or as an act of control or possession or domination as a woman, or in relation to the woman's refusal to establish or maintain an emotional relationship or as an act of limitation of her individual freedom" (translated to English). It appears like this could be a (near-?)direct quote of the legal language used in the change to the penal code. Do you have a source that contradicts this?

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Got a source that's the case here? This is special laws for "antisemitism" all over again