“Victims and survivors called for stronger protections from intimate partner violence and gender-based violence. Those protections are now law,” said the Honourable Sean Fraser, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.
I’ll assume you genuinely don’t know the definition of femicide, but if it turns out that this is disingenuous, I’ll just stop replying.
Femicide is not defined as men killing women. It is defined as the killing of women or girls on the basis of their gender and is considered a hate crime. This change is just saying that hate part is enough to promote it to murder. The rest of the news release is talking about intimate partner violence and doesn’t specify the gender of the victim nor the perpetrator.
This is one of the most consequential reforms of the Criminal Code in a generation to protect victims and survivors of sexual violence, gender-based violence, and intimate partner violence.
You should read the article. It includes intimate partner violence.
I’ll assume you genuinely don’t know the definition of femicide, but if it turns out that this is disingenuous, I’ll just stop replying.
Femicide is not defined as men killing women. It is defined as the killing of women or girls on the basis of their gender and is considered a hate crime. This change is just saying that hate part is enough to promote it to murder. The rest of the news release is talking about intimate partner violence and doesn’t specify the gender of the victim nor the perpetrator.
Thank you for clarifying. Not OP, but was also wondering why the special treatment.
You should read the article. It includes intimate partner violence.