One hundred and four women have been killed since the beginning of the year in Italy,
until November 20, 2022. From Guglielmina, suffocated by her husband on January 6, to Vera, stabbed to death by her ex only four days ago.
This out of a total of
273 murders committed in Italy.
Where people die the most is in the family.
There are
88 feminicides that took place in an emotional or family environment
.
Of these,
52 saw their partner or ex as the perpetrator.
The numbers are those of the report released by the Interior Ministry.
Of these 104 victims, 35 were over 64, most of them, according to EURES data.
There were 109 deaths in the same period last year. A slight drop that does not change the facts: women continue to be killed in buildings in Rome or burned inside cars in the provinces.
In the last week alone, November 14-20, there were ten murders in Italy.
Seven victims were women, two were killed by partners or exes.
Most of them were killed with knives, at least 37 out of 104. Another 23 with firearms.
And then there are the feminicides with bare hands - 24 women killed in this way
- and by beatings: eight died in this way.
The last three modes are up from last year.
According to Istat data, in 2021 there were 139 victims killed in a couple or family relationship: 39 men and 100 women.
Of these, 58.8% are victims of a partner or an ex.
Worldwide, according to the UN, every hour more than five women and girls died in their families.
This corresponds to a femicide every twelve minutes.
ANSA Agency
Istat: '60% of women are victims of a partner or an ex' - Chronicle
"The victims killed in a couple or family relationship are 139, 100 are women. 58.8% of women are victims of a partner or ex partner. The decline in victims of feminicides has stopped".
This is the picture that emerges from the Istat data on 2021 (ANSA)
A problem that does not only concern Italy: 45,000 victims worldwide at the hands of husbands, boyfriends or other relatives, as reported by the Guardian.
According to Un Women these numbers are "alarming" but the figure could be even higher.
At least four out of ten deaths in 2021 were not counted in femicides due to insufficient data.
Although even in Italy deaths occur mainly within the family, in Central Italy more than one in four victims was killed in the context of common crime, as reported by Eures. This is the case of the three women - one Colombian and two Chinese - killed in the Prati district, in Rome, by the alleged killer Giandavide De Pau within a few meters and a few minutes.
Also in the capital, women said they did not feel safe at all hours of the day, when walking in some streets and in some places.
85 percent of them explained that they only walk streets or parks with sunlight.
They also feel this lack of safety on vehicles and in shopping centres.
This is what emerges from the
ACLI 'Cantiere Roma'
report .
Furthermore, the city recorded the highest number of victims in the first eleven months of 2022. Eight women were killed in the capital.
While the North is confirmed as the geographical area most at risk with 56 deaths: 53.8% of the victims of femicide are in the North of the country.
The South follows with 30 deaths and the Center with 18. This is confirmed by the Eures report which also traces the profile of the perpetrators of feminicides: in over nine out of ten cases they are men.
The Istatt data on 2021 also paint a dramatic picture. Of the
139 (45.9% of the total)
victims killed in the family or in a relationship, "
39 are men and 100 women.
58.8
%
of women are victims of a partner or former partners (57.8% in 2020 and 61.3% in 2019). Minors are killed by people they know".
In the same period there were 4,416 sexual violence (+9% compared to 2021);
92% of the victims are women, according to the joint report
"Prejudice and violence against women",
edited by the Central Directorate of the Criminal Police.
ANSA Agency
Meloni: 'The Government will always be at the forefront to combat violence against women' - Politics
Video message from the premier (ANSA)
Why November 25th?
November
25
,
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
,
is not a date chosen at random.
It is the memory of a
brutal assassination
that took place in 1960 in the Dominican Republic, at the time of the dictator Trujillo.
Three sisters, surname Mirabal, considered revolutionaries, were tortured, massacred, strangled.
By throwing their bodies into a ravine an accident was simulated.
Not always, not everywhere, things have changed since that day: just think of the little girls in India who are raped and killed almost every day, but also in our home, where violence against women is often hidden in the domestic sphere.
The Day was established by the UN with resolution 54/134 of 17 December 1999. The matrix of violence against women can still be traced today in the inequality of relationships between men and women.
And the same Declaration adopted by the UN General Assembly speaks of violence against women as "one of the crucial social mechanisms by which women are forced into a subordinate position compared to men".
'Love doesn't do this': the song by Valentina Ambrosio for November 25th
A commission of inquiry
In the light of these data, the
Constitutional Affairs Commission of the Senate
unanimously approved the unified text to set up a
bicameral commission of inquiry into Femicide
and all forms of gender-based violence.
The House and the Senate unanimously approved
the joint motion linked to the prevention of the phenomenon of violence against women.
In the document, the Government undertakes to give priority to the "continuation of policies to combat domestic violence".
Among the other most important points we find "the implementation of resources destined for the Fund for equal opportunities policies" and a Fund for "victims of international violent crimes".
Finally, the document invites the Government to set up a vast awareness campaign aimed at men.
ANSA Agency
Last year, the UN killed 5 women every hour in the family in the world - World
More than five women and girls were killed every hour by a family member in 2021, according to new UN data on femicides.
A report, released today, shows that 45,000 women and girls - more than half (56%) of the 81. (ANSA)
The initiatives
In view of 25 November, the international day for the elimination of violence against women, various aid and awareness-raising initiatives are being put in place in various cities.
Among these are the
red shoes
, symbol of the scourge of feminicides, which will be exhibited in numerous streets and squares.
In Catania, the
'Forno Biancuccia'
, in collaboration with Flai CGIL and the Thamaia anti-violence center, has started printing receipts with the telephone number for the victims.
The 1522 also appeared on
Coop
's milk cartons , for a project created with
Differenza Donna.
Tomorrow Palazzo Chigi will be illuminated in red.
There will also be seminars, moments of discussion, film screenings or presentations of themed books.
The
national procession of the transfeminist association Nonunadimeno will also be held in Rome on
26 November , with adhesions from various realities from all over Italy.
"Enough wars on our bodies. Transfeminist revolt" is the slogan.
The demonstration will start from
Piazza della Repubblica at 2 pm
, will cross the streets of the center touching "some symbolic places", and will end in
Piazza San Giovanni
.
Inside - it is explained by the organizers - flags, slogans, institutional banners of party and trade union organizations will not be accepted, but as usual it will be characterized by the
color fuchsia.
"We call everyone to take to the streets - they say - to stop the wars on our bodies, to oppose the militarization of lives, the transfeminist revolt against violence, oppression and poverty. To make self-determination a battlefield forward , to make self-defense a collective practice of resistance to violence".
ANSA. it
Few and poorly represented women in culture in Italy - Lifestyle
No women among the directors of permanent theaters.
Feminine monuments (very few) that portray the protagonists even topless even where there really isn't a reason.
(HANDLE)
Why November 25th?
November
25
,
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
,
is not a date chosen at random.
It is the memory of a
brutal assassination
that took place in 1960 in the Dominican Republic, at the time of the dictator Trujillo.
Three sisters, surname Mirabal, considered revolutionaries, were tortured, massacred, strangled.
By throwing their bodies into a ravine an accident was simulated.
Not always, not everywhere, things have changed since that day: just think of the little girls in India who are raped and killed almost every day, but also in our home, where violence against women is often hidden in the domestic sphere.
The Day was established by the UN with resolution 54/134 of 17 December 1999. The matrix of violence against women can still be traced today in the inequality of relationships between men and women.
And the same Declaration adopted by the UN General Assembly speaks of violence against women as "one of the crucial social mechanisms by which women are forced into a subordinate position compared to men".
Gender-based violence, the video appeal of the Carabiniere