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‘Uphill Battle’: Criminal Code Must Include Definition for Femicide, Advocates Say
- Ottawa and Kingston police recently investigated and labeled murders of a 54-year-old and a 25-year-old woman as femicides in 2024 and 2025.
- These investigations occur amid advocacy for adding a federal Criminal Code definition of femicide to better address gender-based killings.
- The Canadian Femicide Observatory, tracking gender-motivated killings since 2018, reports 1,014 femicides, including 187 last year with nearly half involving intimate partners.
- Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed in 2025 to classify hate-motivated killings, including femicide, as a constructive first-degree offence, meaning murder charges apply even without premeditation.
- The government aims to introduce legislation soon, which advocates believe will improve data accuracy and prevention by embedding femicide in law and raising awareness.
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The PSD MEPs and senators have launched a bill by which the killing of women is clearly defined in the Criminal Code and punished separately, "in recognition of the gravity and discriminatory nature of this extreme form of gender violence". The legislative proposal stems from "an alarming and unacceptable situation", the fact that in Romania, every 12 minutes, a person becomes a victim of violence, and 66% of reported violence is justified again…
The results of the project entitled "Firearms in the Home Are Not a Trophy, but a Danger", implemented by the Women's Network Against Violence, show that Chekhov's metaphor of a gun hanging on the wall in the first act and bound to fire in the second or third act is fully covered in femicide statistics.
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