Overview

• A cross-party majority in the Tweede Kamer (VVD, GroenLinks-PvdA, D66, NSC and SP) endorsed creating a national coordinator and an integral action plan to bring coherence to anti-femicide policy.
• GL-PvdA MP Songül Mutluer proposed tougher penalties for psychological abuse, partner or filicide homicide, and non-lethal strangulation, with calls for greater awareness of warning signs.
• The cabinet set aside €12 million for measures, which Utrecht mayor Sharon Dijksma welcomed as a start while urging better registration, legal recognition of ‘intimate terror,’ more shelters and faster use of electronic ankle monitors.
• Hundreds joined the final Rotterdam march organized by Dolle Mina, with organizers demanding legal recognition of femicide as gender-based violence, a national 116 helpline and expanded shelter capacity.
• Euro-MP Marit Maij sent a letter signed by 50 MEPs urging EU justice ministers to recognize femicide and accelerate concrete actions under the Istanbul Convention.