Plus de 1 100 femmes et filles ont été tuées au pays par des hommes depuis 2018. Alors pourquoi le gouvernement fédéral tarde-t-il à ajouter le féminicide au Code criminel ?
- Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Guelph
More than 1,100 Canadian women and girls have been killed by men since 2018. So why is the federal government dragging its heels in adding femicide to the Criminal Code?
For hate crime legislation to be more than symbolic, crimes motivated by hatred must be reported, recorded, prosecuted and sentenced as hate crimes
A recent jury examining murders of women urged the federal government to add the term femicide and its definition to the Criminal Code.
Last week, a young woman died after being set fire on a Toronto bus. Police are investigating it as a hate-motivated act. Why is violence against women not treated more often as a hate crime?
Dans leur couverture des féminicides, les médias jouent un rôle de premier plan, non seulement dans la sensibilisation et l’éducation en général, mais aussi pour aider les efforts de prévention.
In covering femicide, media have a leading role, not only in awareness and education generally, but in actively shaping the construction of attitudes and beliefs that can help prevention efforts.
La violence privée et la violence publique garantissent que les femmes et les filles « restent à leur place » – celle que les structures sociales patriarcales ont prescrite.
Private and public violence rely on each other as forces that work together to ensure women and girls ‘stay in their place’ — the one that patriarchal social structures have prescribed.
We tend to pay attention to mass killings and terrorism. But one girl or woman is killed every other day in Canada. If we identify that as terrorism, we might pay more attention and do something.
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