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Nov. 3, 2025, 1:49 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ABO-LAW-1

The Center for Reproductive Rights states that Italy's laws permit abortion on request, with a gestational limit of 90 days/3 months. Parental authorization/notification required.
Oct. 25, 2025, 5:55 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: MURDER-PRACTICE-1

"Italy has been grappling with its long history of femicide — the killing of women — particularly after the murder of 22-year-old university student Giulia Cecchettin. She was killed by her ex-boyfriend Filippo Turetta in November 2023, prompting thousands to take to the streets demanding change. More than 8,000 people attended Cecchettin’s funeral, including Meloni. Turetta was sentenced to life in prison in December" (para 5-6).
Oct. 25, 2025, 5:55 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: MURDER-LAW-1

"On the eve of International Women’s Day, Italy’s national government late Friday approved a draft law that introduces femicide into the country’s law following an uproar over violence against women by their former or current partners. Those convicted would face life in prison under the proposed legislation. The draft law 'provides for aggravating circumstances and increases in punishment for the crimes of personal abuse, stalking, sexual violence and revenge porn,' Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said in a statement" (para 2-4).
Oct. 25, 2025, 5:55 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Italy’s interior ministry recorded 117 femicides in 2023" (para 7).
Oct. 25, 2025, 5:55 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: GDI-DATA-2

"The country ranked 14th on the EU’s Gender Equality Index in 2024, coming in below the EU as a whole. Other member countries have made more progress in equality, which has continued to move Italy down the rankings" (para 8).
Oct. 25, 2025, 5:55 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ERBG-DATA-2

"While women have made large gains in holding positions of power, their overall status in work participation consistently ranks last among member countries, the index concluded" (para 9).
Oct. 25, 2025, 5:55 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"The country is grappling with its long history of violence against women by current or former partners" (para 1).
Oct. 25, 2025, 5:55 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"The country is grappling with its long history of violence against women by current or former partners" (para 1). "[Giulia Cecchettin, a 22-year-old university student] was killed by her ex-boyfriend Filippo Turetta in November 2023, prompting thousands to take to the streets demanding change. More than 8,000 people attended Cecchettin’s funeral, including Meloni. Turetta was sentenced to life in prison in December" (para 6).
Sept. 5, 2025, 12:12 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ABO-LAW-1

"Abortion on request is legal...Italy…" (2). "Laws in fourteen European countries still require a mandatory time period to elapse between the date on which an abortion is first requested and the date on which it takes place. These countries are: Albania, Armenia, Belgium, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia and Spain" (5). "Laws in twelve European countries require individuals seeking abortion care to undergo mandatory counselling or receive mandatory information from their doctors prior to abortion. These countries are: Albania, Armenia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Russian Federation and Slovakia" (6). "In a small number of European countries that have...more
Sept. 4, 2025, 12:23 p.m.
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Variables: AFE-SCALE-1

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July 28, 2025, 5:04 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: GIC-LAW-1

"Meloni’s conservative forces, backed strongly by the Vatican, have mounted a campaign to encourage at least 500,000 births annually by 2033, a rate that demographers say is necessary to prevent the economy from collapsing under the weight of Italy’s aging population. Meloni has called the left-wing opposition to the proposed amendment “fake news,” recalling that Law 194 provides for measures to prevent abortions, which would include counselling pregnant women about alternatives. The amendment specifically allows anti-abortion groups, or groups “supporting motherhood,” to be among the volunteer groups that can work in the counseling centers" (Para 9-10).
July 28, 2025, 5:04 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"Italy’s birthrate, already one of the lowest in the world, has been falling steadily for about 15 years and reached a record low last year with 379,000 babies born" (Para 9).
July 28, 2025, 5:04 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1

"But easy access to abortion isn’t always guaranteed. The law allows health care personnel to register as conscientious objectors and refuse to perform abortions, and many have — meaning women sometimes have to travel far to have the procedure" (Para 7). "The new tensions over abortion in Italy come against the backdrop of developments elsewhere in Europe going somewhat in the opposite direction ... At the same time, Italy’s left fears the country might go the way of the U.S., where states are restricting access after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down landmark legislation that had guaranteed access to abortion nationwide" (Para 12-13).
July 28, 2025, 5:04 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ABO-LAW-1

"Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right-led government scored a victory Tuesday with the Senate approving a law allowing anti-abortion groups access to women considering ending their pregnancies. The development revives tensions around the issue of abortion in Italy, 46 years after it was legalized in the overwhelmingly Catholic country. The Senate, where the government has a majority, voted 95-68, giving final approval to legislation tied to European Union COVID-19 recovery funds that included an amendment sponsored by Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party. The law, already passed by the lower Chamber of Deputies, allows regions to permit groups 'with a qualified experience supporting motherhood' to have access to public support centers where...more
June 24, 2025, 9:07 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: AFE-DATA-1

The gender parity index (GPI) for gross secondary school enrollment (i.e. the ratio of gross enrollment of girls to gross enrollment of boys at the secondary level) is .99. This number was found by using the World Bank's data for secondary school gross enrollment for girls and boys. As of 2022, the gross enrollment rate for females is 101% while the gross enrollment rate for males is 102%. (CEC2 - CODER COMMENT).
April 16, 2025, 8:34 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-2

"The clear role of legally-owned firearms in femicides in Italy is often highlighted by media outlets, especially around the International Day for the Elimination of VAW. When concerns about such impact are shared on social media by activists or prominent figures, a strong reaction, which often appears well-coordinated or planned, from pro-gun individuals follows. A notable example is that of Senator Valeria Valente, the President of the Senate Commission on Femicide, whose comment that 'One thing is certain, however: women close to an armed man run higher risks. It is unacceptable, but it is true. We have to start taking this problem seriously' was met by a stream of pro-gun...more
April 16, 2025, 8:34 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1

"In November 2020, in during an event organised by the Commissione Parlamentare d’inchiesta sul femminicidio, Prime Minister Conte raised the alarm over the fact that during the COVID-19 lockdown the number of femicides had tripled, reaching the disturbing average of one woman being murdered every two days. He added that this rate is even more disturbing considering that during the lockdown there had been a decline in the overall rate of homicides in Italy. In January 2021, it was reported that, according to Ministry of Interior’s data, the decrease in total murders in 2020 had not been matched by an equivalent decrease in homicides involving female victims... Note: The Prime...more
April 16, 2025, 8:34 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: MURDER-DATA-2

"A 2019 study by research institute EURES Ricerche Economiche e Sociali reveals that in Italy female homicide victims rose from about 25% of the total in the early 2000s to almost 40% in 2018. In that same year, one homicide out of two was committed in the family, with 67% being female victims, and firearms were used in 4 out of 10 family homicides, significantly outnumbering those by blades (24.6%); in 65% of those cases the firearms were legally owned. The number of victims killed with firearms in the family in 2018 (39.9%) registered a significant increase compared to 2017 (+97%) and was much higher than the average for the...more
April 16, 2025, 8:34 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Analysis of data from the Ministry of Interior, for the period June 2019 to July 2020, shows that the victims of nearly 70% of family and intimate partner homicides were women. In November 2020, in during an event organised by the Commissione Parlamentare d’inchiesta sul femminicidio, Prime Minister Conte raised the alarm over the fact that during the COVID-19 lockdown the number of femicides had tripled, reaching the disturbing average of one woman being murdered every two days. He added that this rate is even more disturbing considering that during the lockdown there had been a decline in the overall rate of homicides in Italy. In January 2021, it was...more
April 16, 2025, 8:34 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: GP-DATA-3

"An annual report known as the Dossier Viminale, which is published on 15 August. Since 2019, the Ministry of Interior, which has finally started including some sex-disaggregated and intimate partner data in relation to homicides; the report now includes number of homicides committed in the family/intimate partner sphere as well as the percentage of women within that total; however, it does not indicate the weapons or other instruments mechanisms used in the killings. The annual report by the Direzione centrale della polizia criminale (Central Directorate of Criminal Police) on voluntary homicides, which provides sex-disaggregated and intimate partner data but no information on the weapons used either" (6).
April 16, 2025, 8:34 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ATC-DATA-6

"Both the National Strategic Plan on male violence against women and the NAPs on Women, Peace and Security, including the most recently adopted one, pay no attention to the correlation between firearms and femicides and other forms of VAW" (7).
April 4, 2025, 9:20 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ACR-LAW-1

"The Italian parents of a child who was recently born in the US via surrogacy say they are too afraid to return home since Giorgia Meloni’s government enacted the west’s most restrictive law against what she described as 'procreative tourism'. The gay couple could be among the first Italians to be prosecuted under the law, enacted in early December, which extended an outright ban on domestic surrogacy by making it a universal crime that transcends borders, putting them on a par with terrorists, paedophiles and war criminals. The measure can lead to prison terms of up to two years and fines of between €600,000 and €1m (£500,000 and £840,000)" (para...more
April 4, 2025, 9:20 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ACR-DATA-1

"Until the international ban was enacted, an estimated 250 Italian couples sought surrogacy overseas, the vast majority of them straight people who turned to surrogates for health reasons" (para 6).
April 4, 2025, 9:20 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ACR-PRACTICE-1

"Meloni’s far-right Brothers of Italy had long campaigned for those who seek surrogacy abroad to be criminalised" (para 5). "The practice is legal and regulated in 66 countries, although most Italians access the procedure in the US or Canada, where surrogacy is not specified on the birth certificate and where their child can obtain immediate US or Canadian citizenship" (para 7).
April 1, 2025, 7:34 p.m.
Countries: Denmark, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-2

"A survey of women aged 18 – 55 in Denmark, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the USA found that 23 per cent of women reported at least one experience of online abuse or harassment" (para 13).
Feb. 26, 2025, 8:53 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1, EWCMS-DATA-3

"In the aftermath of the 2022 gathering of the Alpini, Italy’s widely admired mountain infantry, more than 170 women came forward to denounce aggressions, from catcalling to slaps, touchings and insults. Most Alpini are still in denial about the seriousness of the accusations. 'It’s the fault of how they dress,' said one. 'They’re provocative and then they play the victim,' said another" (par. 9).
Feb. 26, 2025, 8:53 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ABO-LAW-1

"'Our mothers did an amazing amount of work, fighting to legalise abortion and divorce [in 1978 and 1970 respectively], but then they became so bourgeois and settled down. For 20 years, in the 90s and early 00s, there was no feminism around me,' [Giulia Blasi, co-creator of Italy's #MeToo equivalent, #QuellaVoltaChe] said" (par. 12). Obotion was legalized in 1978 in Italy (IME - CODER COMMENT).
Feb. 26, 2025, 8:53 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ATDW-LAW-1

"'Our mothers did an amazing amount of work, fighting to legalise abortion and divorce [in 1978 and 1970 respectively], but then they became so bourgeois and settled down. For 20 years, in the 90s and early 00s, there was no feminism around me,' [Giulia Blasi, co-creator of Italy's #MeToo equivalent, #QuellaVoltaChe] said" (par. 12). Access to divorce was made legal in 1970 (IME - CODER COMMENT).
Feb. 26, 2025, 8:53 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: GP-DATA-1

"Superficially it might seem that Italy has made important progress on equality: the country now has not only a female prime minister but also a female leader of the opposition, Elly Schlein" (par. 15).
Feb. 26, 2025, 8:53 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1

"In another sentence last week, a 43-year-old man wasn’t given the life term requested by prosecutors because Carol Maltesi, the 26-year-old woman he murdered, was perceived by the judge to be 'disinhibited'" (par. 15).