Belgium has implemented a special law to prevent femicide

The Belgian Parliament has passed a separate law to prevent femicide. It will help analyze statistics of women's homicides and protect potential victims, as reported by The Brussels Times.

The new law provides a legal definition of femicide, which is divided into four categories:

1) Killing of familiar women, for example, committed by a current or former partner;
2) Killing of unfamiliar women, for example, a client taking the life of a sex worker;
3) Indirect femicide, for example, the death of a woman following forced abortion;
4) Killing based on hatred directly related to gender.