Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy on the Domestic Abuse Bill

A group of women MPs and charities are urging the government to treat misogyny as a hate crime within the government's new domestic abuse laws, according to a BBC report.

Their amendment to the Domestic Abuse Bill would require police to record and track crimes motivated by misogyny.

Supporting the move, charity Citizens UK said it will allow forces to identify patterns and perpetrators.

The so-called "amendment 84" to the bill has been put forward by Labour MP Stella Creasy, Lib Dem Christine Jardine and Plaid Cymru's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts. The Domestic Abuse Bill is currently at the committee stage in the House of Commons.

Speaking about the amendment, Charlotte Fischer from Citizens UK said recording misogyny as a hate crime "supports women to be able to name the experiences they have, and to know they will be believed when they do so".

"By recognising how misogyny intersects with anti-black racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and other forms of discrimination we also can also map and understand how other forms of abuse affect women in specific and intersectional ways," she said.

Labour MP Ms Creasy said it was "time for change", adding: "Misogyny is so much part of everyday life that we overlook the harm it does - at the expense of tackling the root causes of violence against women."

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Read the full report here.