London Police Services Board is gathering public input before it asks the federal government to add femicide to the Criminal Code
A police board in southern Ontario is gathering input from the public as it prepares to ask the federal government to add the term femicide to the Criminal Code, a move some advocates say is a crucial step in addressing a national crisis.
Walker, who is a former executive director of the London Abused Women’s Centre, said the initiative stemmed from a May board meeting where she asked if there was a specific breakdown of how many women were victims of homicides, attempted murders and hate crimes in the city, and was told there was no such data readily available.
The jury that examined what happened to Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk and Nathalie Warmerdam urged the federal government to explore adding the term femicide and its definition to the Criminal Code “to be used where appropriate in the context of relevant crimes.” Dawson said she believes the term femicide is starting to get the attention it deserves because of pandemic-based lockdowns that brought the issue of domestic violence to the fore and the number of cases in recent years that have underlined the way in which women and girls can be killed simply because of their gender.
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