Policy. Government wants to toughen the penalties for honour crimes against women. It is a strategy on men’s violence against women which is now presented.
A majority in the parliament has previously requested this of the government.
Strategy on men’s violence against women include ten years and 900 million to the various measures during the period 2017-2020. It houses, among other things, increased efforts against honour related violence and oppression against women and girls.
– We will make a survey of the honour related violence in Sweden. It has not been made since 2009 and there is much to suggest that we need a new one, ” says minister for gender equality Åsa Regnér (S).
Difficult define
Justice minister Morgan Johansson (s) to investigate if the penalty for a crime must be particularly hard if the subject has been honor-related.
– I think that there is reason to consider a straffskärpningsgrund when crimes are committed with hedersmotiv. Sometimes it leads to abuse, sometimes to the unlawful detention and in the worst cases, murder and manslaughter. The court shall ensure stricter about the crimes committed with hedersmotiv, ” says Johansson to TT.
the Question is how honor is defined and what it should include.
– It is, after all, such an investigation look at. There is a big discussion about boundaries, but it particularly has the excellent these situations we have had are the cases where the whole or parts of the family in one way or another are involved in this by, for example, bring out the girl out of the country and marry her off. Then you are in a particularly vulnerable situation, and then there are reasons to be more stringent on it, ” says Johansson.
the Secretary-general in the Swedish Bar association, Anne Ramberg, think it is good that the issue is being investigated.
– There may be a need to clarify the limits. However, there are reasons to be restrictive in the extension of what should constitute straffskärpningsgrund, ” she says to TT.
Government backs
Moderaten Elisabeth Svantesson welcome the news of a bet against honour-related violence.
– We conservatives have been pushing this for a long time and a majority in the parliament with an announcement forced the government to this, ” she says to TT.
She thinks in general that the government’s gender equality policy misses the major gender equality issues.
– We slopes on several areas when it comes to equality, we see increased oppression of women in many suburbs, we have received gender-sensitive teaching and the separated bathing times. Instead of taking hold of the problems that engaged the government to mere symbolic policies, such as quotas for company boards and a jämställdhetsmyndighet, ” says Svantesson.
in Addition to the violence against women highlights the government especially the economic equality between the sexes. Åsa Regnér said that the government should take forward an action plan to put increased political pressure on to have more equal pay.
the FACTS
Government’s letter to the equal opportunities policy
A jämställdhetsmyndighet be established in 2018.
The national missions on honour related violence and repression, prostitution and trafficking in human beings will be permanent
Two new sub-objectives: gender education and equality of health.
Strengthen equality bias towards men and boys.
Ten-year national strategy to combat men’s world against women. It includes honour-related violence and oppression, and prostitution and trafficking in human beings for sexual purposes.
Total allocated 900 million in the period 2017-2020 for the implementation of the strategy.
the Law on forced marriages and child marriages, which came into force in 2014, will also be reviewed.
the Government sees the need to strengthen the law to get more convictions.
Review the school’s sex and education.
Investigate if hedersmotiv shall constitute special straffskärpningsgrund.
Source: Government
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