Italy’s parliament on Tuesday approved a law that introduces femicide into the country’s criminal law and punishes it with life in prison.

The vote coincided with the international day for the elimination of violence against women, a day designated by the U.N. General Assembly.

The law won bipartisan support from the center-right majority and the center-left opposition in the final vote in the Lower Chamber, passing with 237 votes in favor.

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. It includes stronger measures against gender-based crimes including stalking and revenge porn.

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    It take a certain type of flaw in logic to assume that because a group is “getting” something, it means another group is losing something.

    What if one group is getting something unproportionally more than the other.

    That creates inequality, essentially meaning that the disadvantaged group is losing something. I.e. they get less that the other group.

    So yeah, if you give one group much more than the other, they are losing something.

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      Recognizing group harassment is also benefitting individualism by recognizing that… inequity is real.