After Italy, now Canada proposes a new Femicide Law. Many people asked why this new wave of Femicide Laws in the world. This is my Chronology:

0 wave: 90s: USA (VAWA), not really working because then it included male victims

-> UN connects IPV and gender condition in the 90s

1st wave: 2004: Spain, Ley Integral Violencia de Genero

--- -> creation of UN Women

2nd wave: Latin America, from 2008 to 2019, Feminicidio and Femicidio Laws (but nobody cared) -> in EU the Istanbul Convention

Between 2nd and 3rd waves -> in UK there are the proposals of Misogyny Bills, to treat Violence against Women but not against Men as an Hate Crime

3rd wave: from 2022, EU and North America, from Cyprus, Malta, Croatia, North Macedonia, Belgium, now Italy, European Parliament proposals

-> for Italy and Malta we have evidence that there was the pressure from CEDAW (for Italy) and GREVIO (a council connected to the Istanbul Convention) in Malta, probably also UN Women played a role

-> Brazil passes a Misogyny Bill

Future 4th wave: if we see in Mexico and Brazil, there will be, after Femicide Laws, Misogyny Laws (or Digital Violence laws, if we see the trend in UN) against free speach, Ley Vicaria for treating men-on-children but not women-on-children violence as an act against the other gender, Gender-Based Self Defense (Ley Alina in Mexico, similar to Battered Women Syndrome Defense, ie every woman who kills a man will be considered a victim and acting for self defense if she says so in the moment of the arrest), and Political Violence Gender laws, which will consider a critic against a woman politician as gender-based violence -> in Argentina there is also the DASPO/forbidden to go to games events or bars and so on if you did something against women, even just tweets or not paying alimony

So we have 3 major influences:

  • UN Women

  • GREVIO/Istanbul Convention -> for the American continent there is the "Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women", commonly known as the "Convention of Belém do Pará" -> there is an African equivalent too

  • CEDAW

THIS is the reason for this wave of legislations