Italy unanimously votes for femicide law/

I just wonder.
Murder is murder
GBH is GBH
Hate Crime is Hate Crime
Violence against women, violence against children, violence … full stop.
All equally wrong.

Yes, I thought that and then I read some comments saying it would help clarify statistical evidence about violent and abusive attitudes towards women and make clearer what interventions were needed, socially and institutionally.

I admit I did skim read but I did feel they had a point.

RosieandherMaw Of course they. However the UK doesn't recognise violence against women as having a hate element, but it does for race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity. Why not violence and murder against women because of their sex? A woman needs to have one of the other protected categories in order to have a crime against her considered hate.

It is progress when you consider that killing women was often in the past dismissed as a 'crime of passion', in certain countries.

I don't want any more hate crime law, it would make no difference to violence against women. It is window dressing.

I remember the time when a violent physical assault on a woman was dismissed as a 'domestic'.
Redefining violence can bring it to the attention of the police.

I think it is great.

It appears a well thought through law.
And it was unanimous.

Win win,