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Dancers perform on the Spanish Steps during the “No Violence, Only Love” event organised by Telefono Rosa, a women’s rights group, to raise awareness on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in Rome, Italy, on 25 November 2025. Photo: Remo Casilli/Reuters

Italy now recognises the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison

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

A woman holds up a photo of Giulia Cecchettin, the 22-year-old university student stabbed to death by her former boyfriend, on the occasion of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in Milan, Italy, Nov. 25, 2023. AP Photo

Italian govt approves femicide law, punishing with life imprisonment

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