Canton Bern ready to call feminicide by its proper name

The executive council of canton Bern is prepared to explicitly mention feminicide in its crime statistics. However, it does not wish to go it alone, preferring to wait until a national definition and criteria have been established for recording these acts of violence. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The motion put forward by Green Party parliamentarian Manuel C. Widmer calls on the government to include feminicides in the annual crime statistics for the canton of Bern, separately and as such. At present, there is no official institution that systematically documents this type of crime in Switzerland. The authors of the motion point out that feminicide reflects violence rooted in patriarchal power structures in society. They believe that violence inflicted on women is often regarded as a private matter. "In Switzerland, the term 'feminicide' is still not firmly anchored in political discourse". Uniform standards In its recently published response to the ...