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Italy\u2019s lower house on Tuesday evening voted unanimously to approve a law that introduces the crime of femicide to be punished with life in prison.<\/p>\n
The government-sponsored bill, which had cross-party support, was already passed by the senate in July and will enter into law after being signed into effect by the country’s president.<\/p>\n
The bill introduces a new article into Italy’s criminal code which provides for a life sentence for anyone who kills a woman as an act of hatred, discrimination, abuse, or control, to limit her freedom, or in relation to her refusal to establish or maintain an emotional relationship.<\/p>\n
Italian law already provides for a specific aggravating circumstance for most killings that qualify as femicide, but not as a separate crime.<\/p>\n
In a symbolic move,\u00a0lawmakers\u00a0approved the bill on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.<\/p>\n
The law comes after Italy was shocked by a string of high-profile femicides\u00a0in recent years including the murder of Giulia Cecchettin by her former boyfriend two years ago.<\/p>\n
Prime minister Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday underlined the steps taken by her government, including the doubling of funding for anti-violence shelters for women, promoting the 1522 emergency helpline and implementing awareness campaigns.<\/p>\n
“These are concrete steps forward, but we won\u2019t stop here. We must continue to do much more, every day” – Meloni wrote on X – “To protect, to prevent, to support. To build an Italy in which no woman should ever feel alone, threatened or not believed.”<\/p>\n
Photo Roma Capitale: ‘No Violence, Only Love’ at the Spanish Steps on Tuesday 25 November 2025<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Law classifies femicide – the murder of a woman motivated by gender – as a separate crime to homicide. Italy\u2019s lower house on Tuesday evening voted unanimously to approve a law that introduces the crime of femicide to be punished with life in prison. The government-sponsored bill, which had cross-party support, was already passed by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4406,14666,2547,10612,28934,28933],"class_list":["post-44192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eventi","tag-crime","tag-femicide","tag-italy","tag-life","tag-prison","tag-punishable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}