Home Speaker Annita Demetriou on Wednesday introduced her proposal for criminalisation of femicides, earlier than the Parliament`s Authorized Affairs Committee.
She famous that with this proposal the Cyprus Republic and the Parliament paved the way for the safety and safeguard of human rights and the abolition of stereotypes. Demetriou stated that femicide is probably the most excessive type of gender violence and the proposed change of the penal code goals at strengthening the authorized armoury of the Republic in order that it turns into appropriate with its obligation for the abolition of violence and discrimination in opposition to girls.
Home Speaker stated that at present we make an enormous step for ladies`s rights, for the safety of human rights and for addressing a phenomenon that has elevated particularly through the pandemic.
She additionally famous that Cyprus is the primary nation that has criminalised sexism including that the Republic may also paved the way on femicides. As she defined, the penal code will probably be amended to incorporate the offence of femicide which can carry a life sentence.
In the course of the assembly of the Committee the Scientific Director of the Affiliation for the Prevention and Dealing with of Violence within the Household Andri Andronikou stated that in 2020 a complete of two,147 violence incidents had been reported, 880 of which had been associated to elevated home violence incidents in opposition to girls within the final three months, 407 associated to life threats, 322 associated to violence with using a gun or different object and 129 associated to strangulation makes an attempt.
Susana Pavlou, Head of the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Research (MIGS) stated that between 2010-2016 there have been 28 femicide incidents, 75% of which had been home violence incidents. In accordance with Pavlou, between 2019-2020 Cyprus reported 13 femicides together with two youngsters and nearly all of the perpetrators had been male and Cypriots.