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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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♡ step in the right direction ♡

[–] gbzm@piefed.social 90 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (12 children)

People here seem weirdly confused about the term "feminicide": it means homicide motivated by misogyny. It's a subset of hate crimes.

They exist in all western societies I'm aware of, if you're confused it's probably only because you're unused to thinking of women as a protected class and hate for women as aggravating circumstances, the way hate for any race of religion is in most legal systems.

Yes they're 50% of the population, but also yes they're disproportionately the targets of violence because misogyny exists. Yet they are rarely treated as such in many legal systems.

[–] Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf 28 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Genuinely thought it just meant killing a woman and was confused

[–] daizelkrns@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It does get misused in that exact way sometimes. I'm from Mexico, these cases have been making big headlines here for a while now, some prosecutors are misclassifying cases as femicide to grab attention to their political careers.

Local one a couple of years ago where a dude ran over a woman. Local prosecutor was pushing for femicide, fortunately it was moved to manslaughter as it should have been from the start. Not everything constitutes a hate crime and cases like that (in my opinion at least) would make the distinction meaningless

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 points 24 minutes ago

Sometimes people run over others intentionally, so drag supports the recognition of vehicular murder, but yes, it's usually manslaughter. A prior history between victim and accused or history of hateful conduct by the accused should be used as clues that a deeper investigation is required.

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 24 points 5 hours ago (28 children)

It seems weird to consider half the people as "protected class". But only one gender. Dunno why they didn't just make hate crime the charge and make misogyny fall under that

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (6 children)

They're a protected class because they're singled out for violence because of their class. And it's a real world problem not a logic quiz. Misogyny and misandry are not equivalent in reality the way they are in the dictionary.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Does that make hate crime murder against men less worth prosecuting as such? Why shouldn't the legal definition be symmetrical?

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[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 0 points 53 minutes ago (1 children)

So, its already illegal, just going to make it more illegal ?

No effort to invesigate and address underlying issies ?

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 29 minutes ago

I mean you could read the article and find out

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 17 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

A lot of people in here seem upset for some reason.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 hours ago

It's actually pretty sad. Kinda scary to.

[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 4 points 3 hours ago

Pretty sure threads like this are why there aren’t more women on Lemmy..

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[–] falseWhite@lemmy.world 28 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

"Let's slap a bandaid instead of fixing the underlying societal problems causing this and score some popularity points" - every politician ever.

Edit: okay maybe there are a few smart politicians, but they're not scoring the popularity points with this:

“Italy is one of only seven countries in Europe where sex and relationship education is not yet compulsory in schools, and we are calling for it to be compulsory in all school cycles,” said the head of Italy’s Democratic Party, Elly Schlein. “Repression is not enough without prevention, which can only start in schools.”

[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 hours ago

To be precise, in Italy life sentence is 26 years.

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