The DPR unanimously approved the bill feticide crimes and other regulatory interventions to combat violence against women and for the protection of victims, it has been approved by the Senate. The yes vote was 237.
Crime
The new law regulates life imprisonment for anyone who kills a woman because of discrimination, hatred and harassmentor by acts of domination, mastery, dominance over the victim because she is a woman. Furthermore, punishment is also determined if murder is committed due to the victim’s refusal to establish or maintain an emotional relationship or as an act of limiting individual freedom.
The text intervenes in providing prison benefits to those convicted of new crimes and for other crimes related to gender violence, subject to a positive judicial evaluation of the results of scientific observations of the personality of the prisoner or internee, carried out for at least one year. In addition, there is an obligation to immediately inform the aggrieved person of the provisions implementing alternative measures to detention and other benefits that require the release of the convicted person from the penitentiary.
Similar communication is required for the next of kin of the offended person who died due to femicide or aggravated murder. Reductions are also expected to occur in the maximum duration of bonus permits granted to minors convicted of the crime of femicide.
This law also expands the acceptability of legal aid by reducing income limits for people offended by the crimes of attempted aggravated murder and attempted murder of women, as well as providing changes to current law to ensure fuller protection for children orphaned by femicide. Also expecting that Violence victims as young as fourteen can access anti-violence centers without prior permission from their parents or those who assume parental responsibility to receive information and guidance.
To prevent and combat sexual violence, promotion awareness campaigns and training and education initiatives regarding the dangers of using narcotics, psychotropics or substances that can alter consciousness, as well as establishing a permanent technical table at the Ministry of Health to prevent and eradicate the phenomenon of sexual violence through the use of narcotic substances.
Training initiatives were then strengthened, for judges and in the health sector, on violence against women and domestic violence. Finally, every year the Ministry of Justice will submit a report to Parliament regarding the implementation of the new law.
