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Italian government’s support for women’s shelters shouldn’t be limited to this crisis
Within a couple of weeks, Italy has gone from having a few cases of COVID-19 to having the highest number of deaths in the world. Due to the emergency, the Italian government has put the country under a total lockdown, restricting the movement of the population, except in cases of necessity. This means that, as …
Italy: Femicide and the media
The Research Group on Femicide of the non-profit association Casa delle donne per non subire violenza ONLUS, based in Bologna (Italy), has published its Annual Report on Femicide in the Italian context. The Group examines all the press articles related to femicide on a daily scale and, after various analysis, tries to list all those …
The lack of implementation of the Istanbul Convention in Italy
On September 10th, 2013, the Istanbul Convention was ratified by Italy and it entered into force almost one year later, on August 1st, 2014. By ratifying the Convention, Italy is obliged to prevent and eliminate violence against women (VAW), particularly by eradicating gender stereotypes which are deeply embedded in Italian culture. These are said to …
Women´s reproductive rights in Italy: obstetric violence as a human rights violation
Obstetric violence is an intersection between institutional violence – condoned, endorsed and/or perpetuated by the state- and violence against women during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. It can be manifested in several ways: • the denial of treatment during childbirth • forced coerced medical interventions that accelerate the natural process of birth, such as the Kisteller …
Women´s reproductive rights in Italy: the new government nostalgic for the old times
“Abortion is the number one cause of femicide in the world”: this is what a pro-life organization declared on the black-and-white posters that have appeared in several areas of Rome, in May 2018. Feminist groups condemned the posters as “disgraceful” while others disapproved of the wrong use of the word “femicide” which means the killing …
The legal barriers affecting undocumented women in Italy
Miriam(1) is a young migrant woman who turned to a women’s anti-violence centre in Northern Italy to escape the violence perpetrated by her husband. Miriam held a residence permit for family reunification and had entered the shelter three months before her permit was due to expire. Miriam had two possibilities to remain in Italy. The …
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