Latest items for Italy
Aug. 23, 2023, 5:30 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: IAW-LAW-1
"In legitimate succession, the inheritance is devolved to the spouse, descendants, parents ascendants, collaterals, other relatives and the State in order and second the rules established in this title" (50). "In the absence of children, ascendants, brothers or sisters, all the inheritance devolves on the spouse" (51).
Variables: IAW-LAW-1
"In legitimate succession, the inheritance is devolved to the spouse, descendants, parents ascendants, collaterals, other relatives and the State in order and second the rules established in this title" (50). "In the absence of children, ascendants, brothers or sisters, all the inheritance devolves on the spouse" (51).
July 11, 2023, 3:35 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: LO-LAW-1
"The administration of community property and representation in court for the deeds relating to it, it belongs separately to both spouses. The fulfillment of acts exceeding ordinary administration, as well as the stipulation of contracts with which personal rights of enjoyment and representation in court for the relative shares belong jointly to both spouses" (16). "Acts performed by one spouse without the necessary consent of the other spouse and not validated by this are voidable if they relate to real estate or movable property listed in article 2683. The action can be brought by the spouse whose consent was required before one year from the date on which he became...more
Variables: LO-LAW-1
"The administration of community property and representation in court for the deeds relating to it, it belongs separately to both spouses. The fulfillment of acts exceeding ordinary administration, as well as the stipulation of contracts with which personal rights of enjoyment and representation in court for the relative shares belong jointly to both spouses" (16). "Acts performed by one spouse without the necessary consent of the other spouse and not validated by this are voidable if they relate to real estate or movable property listed in article 2683. The action can be brought by the spouse whose consent was required before one year from the date on which he became...more
June 20, 2023, 11:24 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-2
"According to the 2019 CONSOB Observatory, men remain the lead financial decision-makers, although in the vast majority of the cases they share their choices with either the partner or other relatives" (10). "[W]hen married the vast majority of financial decision-makers share their choices with their partner" (20).
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-2
"According to the 2019 CONSOB Observatory, men remain the lead financial decision-makers, although in the vast majority of the cases they share their choices with either the partner or other relatives" (10). "[W]hen married the vast majority of financial decision-makers share their choices with their partner" (20).
June 17, 2023, 5:11 p.m.
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Variables: MARR-SCALE-2
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Variables: MARR-SCALE-2
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May 18, 2023, 3:24 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: IAD-LAW-1
According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), sons and daughters have equal rights to inherit assets from their parents. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Civil Code, Arts. 565 and 566.
Variables: IAD-LAW-1
According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), sons and daughters have equal rights to inherit assets from their parents. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Civil Code, Arts. 565 and 566.
May 18, 2023, 3:24 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: IAW-LAW-1
According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), female and male surviving spouses have equal rights to inherit assets. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Civil Code, Arts. 565 and 583.
Variables: IAW-LAW-1
According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), female and male surviving spouses have equal rights to inherit assets. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Civil Code, Arts. 565 and 583.
May 18, 2023, 3:24 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: LO-LAW-1
According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), the law prohibits discrimination in access to credit based on gender. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Legislative Decree No. 198/2006, Arts. 55-ter and quater. According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), a woman can sign a contract in the same way as a man. The WBL database cites the following as the source: no source provided. According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), a woman can register a business in the same way as a man. The WBL database cites the following as the source: no source provided. According to...more
Variables: LO-LAW-1
According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), the law prohibits discrimination in access to credit based on gender. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Legislative Decree No. 198/2006, Arts. 55-ter and quater. According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), a woman can sign a contract in the same way as a man. The WBL database cites the following as the source: no source provided. According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), a woman can register a business in the same way as a man. The WBL database cites the following as the source: no source provided. According to...more
May 18, 2023, 2:24 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: LO-PRACTICE-1, LO-DATA-1
"Create a fairer labour market in terms of equal career opportunities, competitiveness, and flexibility, by supporting women’s participation, also after the dramatic impact of the pandemic, in particular by helping parents to achieve a work-life balance, and by stimulating female entrepreneurship, especially in innovation" (6). "Entrepreneurship and women’s empowerment has been at the center of the work of the Italian Presidency of the G20 and to this end the first conference dedicated to women’s empowerment in the G20 context was hosted in Santa Margherita Ligure, on August 26, 2021, thus bringing attention inter alia to the implementation of policies to increase women’s participation in the public and private sphere and...more
Variables: LO-PRACTICE-1, LO-DATA-1
"Create a fairer labour market in terms of equal career opportunities, competitiveness, and flexibility, by supporting women’s participation, also after the dramatic impact of the pandemic, in particular by helping parents to achieve a work-life balance, and by stimulating female entrepreneurship, especially in innovation" (6). "Entrepreneurship and women’s empowerment has been at the center of the work of the Italian Presidency of the G20 and to this end the first conference dedicated to women’s empowerment in the G20 context was hosted in Santa Margherita Ligure, on August 26, 2021, thus bringing attention inter alia to the implementation of policies to increase women’s participation in the public and private sphere and...more
May 18, 2023, 2:05 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: IAW-LAW-1, IAD-LAW-1
"The law provides women equal inheritance rights as wives (Civil Code, Art. 581-585), and daughters (Civil Code, Art. 565) to inherit land and non-land assets. Since January 2014 a new law (D.Lgs. 154/2013) removed previous discrimination towards children born outside of marriage. Previously, the law distinguished between ‘legitimate children’ born from parents legally married to each other and ‘illegitimate children’, or those born from unmarried parents. Now all children inherit equally. The Italian Civil Code also gives qualified status to some family members by granting them a forced share (quota legittima), this includes the surviving spouse who, as such, cannot be disinherited (Civil Code, Article 536)" (3).more
Variables: IAW-LAW-1, IAD-LAW-1
"The law provides women equal inheritance rights as wives (Civil Code, Art. 581-585), and daughters (Civil Code, Art. 565) to inherit land and non-land assets. Since January 2014 a new law (D.Lgs. 154/2013) removed previous discrimination towards children born outside of marriage. Previously, the law distinguished between ‘legitimate children’ born from parents legally married to each other and ‘illegitimate children’, or those born from unmarried parents. Now all children inherit equally. The Italian Civil Code also gives qualified status to some family members by granting them a forced share (quota legittima), this includes the surviving spouse who, as such, cannot be disinherited (Civil Code, Article 536)" (3).more
May 18, 2023, 2:05 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: LO-PRACTICE-1
"In practice, however, female entrepreneurs often face difficulties accessing credit and more often rely on self-financing (from family, friends)" (8).
Variables: LO-PRACTICE-1
"In practice, however, female entrepreneurs often face difficulties accessing credit and more often rely on self-financing (from family, friends)" (8).
May 18, 2023, 2:05 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: IAW-PRACTICE-1, IAD-PRACTICE-1
"The law provides women equal inheritance rights as wives (Civil Code, Art. 581-585), and daughters (Civil Code, Art. 565) to inherit land and non-land assets. Since January 2014 a new law (D.Lgs. 154/2013) removed previous discrimination towards children born outside of marriage. Previously, the law distinguished between ‘legitimate children’ born from parents legally married to each other and ‘illegitimate children’, or those born from unmarried parents. Now all children inherit equally. The Italian Civil Code also gives qualified status to some family members by granting them a forced share (quota legittima), this includes the surviving spouse who, as such, cannot be disinherited (Civil Code, Article 536). There is nothing in...more
Variables: IAW-PRACTICE-1, IAD-PRACTICE-1
"The law provides women equal inheritance rights as wives (Civil Code, Art. 581-585), and daughters (Civil Code, Art. 565) to inherit land and non-land assets. Since January 2014 a new law (D.Lgs. 154/2013) removed previous discrimination towards children born outside of marriage. Previously, the law distinguished between ‘legitimate children’ born from parents legally married to each other and ‘illegitimate children’, or those born from unmarried parents. Now all children inherit equally. The Italian Civil Code also gives qualified status to some family members by granting them a forced share (quota legittima), this includes the surviving spouse who, as such, cannot be disinherited (Civil Code, Article 536). There is nothing in...more
May 18, 2023, 2:05 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: LO-LAW-1
"Women have the same rights as men to be recognised as head of the household. They are not required to obey their husbands (Civil Code, Article 143)... Married and unmarried women have the same rights as men to choose where to live (Civil Code, Article 144)" (2). "Married and unmarried women have the same rights as men to own, use, and make decisions over land and non-land assets (Civil Code, arts. 180 and 832; Constitution Arts. 3 and 42). According to the Civil Code (and following the reform of family rights in 1975), the default marital property regime is partial community of property (Civil Code, Arts. 159, 177, and 179)...more
Variables: LO-LAW-1
"Women have the same rights as men to be recognised as head of the household. They are not required to obey their husbands (Civil Code, Article 143)... Married and unmarried women have the same rights as men to choose where to live (Civil Code, Article 144)" (2). "Married and unmarried women have the same rights as men to own, use, and make decisions over land and non-land assets (Civil Code, arts. 180 and 832; Constitution Arts. 3 and 42). According to the Civil Code (and following the reform of family rights in 1975), the default marital property regime is partial community of property (Civil Code, Arts. 159, 177, and 179)...more
May 18, 2023, 11:04 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: IM-DATA-1
"Last year [2021] Italy recorded more than 12 deaths for every seven births and the resident population fell by 179,000 to 58.85 million, ISTAT said in its annual demographic report" (Para.3). "Italy recorded 392,600 births in 2022, down from 400,249 the previous year, ISTAT said, the 14th consecutive fall and the lowest number since the country's unification in 1861"(Para.5). "The fertility rate edged down to 1.24 children per woman from 1.25 in 2021, registering a decline in central and northern regions and a marginal increase in the south" (Para.7).
Variables: IM-DATA-1
"Last year [2021] Italy recorded more than 12 deaths for every seven births and the resident population fell by 179,000 to 58.85 million, ISTAT said in its annual demographic report" (Para.3). "Italy recorded 392,600 births in 2022, down from 400,249 the previous year, ISTAT said, the 14th consecutive fall and the lowest number since the country's unification in 1861"(Para.5). "The fertility rate edged down to 1.24 children per woman from 1.25 in 2021, registering a decline in central and northern regions and a marginal increase in the south" (Para.7).
May 18, 2023, 11:04 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: CWC-DATA-4
"The fertility rate edged down to 1.24 children per woman from 1.25 in 2021, registering a decline in central and northern regions and a marginal increase in the south. The trend was partly offset by immigration, with immigrants exceeding emigrants by 229,000 last year compared with a net inflow of 160,000 in 2021. Foreigners made up 8.6% of the country's population in 2022, for a total of 5.05 million" (Para.8).
Variables: CWC-DATA-4
"The fertility rate edged down to 1.24 children per woman from 1.25 in 2021, registering a decline in central and northern regions and a marginal increase in the south. The trend was partly offset by immigration, with immigrants exceeding emigrants by 229,000 last year compared with a net inflow of 160,000 in 2021. Foreigners made up 8.6% of the country's population in 2022, for a total of 5.05 million" (Para.8).
May 18, 2023, 11:04 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: BR-DATA-1
"Births in Italy dropped to a new historic low below 400,000 in 2022, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Friday, as the population continued to shrink. Italy's dearth of babies is considered a national emergency, and fixing the problem was a prominent policy pledge by Giorgia Meloni ahead of last year's election which saw her become the country's first woman prime minister." (Para.1-2). "Last year [2021] Italy recorded more than 12 deaths for every seven births and the resident population fell by 179,000 to 58.85 million, ISTAT said in its annual demographic report" (Para.3). "Italy recorded 392,600 births in 2022, down from 400,249 the previous year, ISTAT said, the 14th...more
Variables: BR-DATA-1
"Births in Italy dropped to a new historic low below 400,000 in 2022, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Friday, as the population continued to shrink. Italy's dearth of babies is considered a national emergency, and fixing the problem was a prominent policy pledge by Giorgia Meloni ahead of last year's election which saw her become the country's first woman prime minister." (Para.1-2). "Last year [2021] Italy recorded more than 12 deaths for every seven births and the resident population fell by 179,000 to 58.85 million, ISTAT said in its annual demographic report" (Para.3). "Italy recorded 392,600 births in 2022, down from 400,249 the previous year, ISTAT said, the 14th...more
May 18, 2023, 11:04 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: DACH-DATA-1
"Overall, men born in Italy can expect to live to 80 years and six months, and women until almost 85" (Para.13).
Variables: DACH-DATA-1
"Overall, men born in Italy can expect to live to 80 years and six months, and women until almost 85" (Para.13).
April 22, 2023, 9:52 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: MARR-LAW-7
"Art. 87.They cannot marry each other: (1) the ascendants and descendants in a straight line; (2) siblings, consanguineous or uterine; (3) uncle and niece, aunt and nephew; (4) affines in a straight line; the prohibition also exists in the event that the affinity derives from a marriage declared null or dissolved or for which it was pronounced the cessation of civil effects; (5) collateral affinity in the second degree; (6) the adopter, the adopted person and his descendants."
Variables: MARR-LAW-7
"Art. 87.They cannot marry each other: (1) the ascendants and descendants in a straight line; (2) siblings, consanguineous or uterine; (3) uncle and niece, aunt and nephew; (4) affines in a straight line; the prohibition also exists in the event that the affinity derives from a marriage declared null or dissolved or for which it was pronounced the cessation of civil effects; (5) collateral affinity in the second degree; (6) the adopter, the adopted person and his descendants."
April 19, 2023, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-8
This analysis collected data on the proportion of consanguineous marriages in 72 different geopolitical regions from www.consang.net in October 2010, referencing many of the same 381 surveys as Alan H. Bittles' report (1998) which included information for 6.55 million marriages. In cases when multiple estimates were provided for regions, they computed the mean percentage of consanguineous marriages by weighting individual estimates according to sample size. Table 1 of the appendix summarizes consanguineous marriage data. It shows that Italy's weighted mean consanguineous percentage is 0.591% (VC-CODER COMMENT).
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-8
This analysis collected data on the proportion of consanguineous marriages in 72 different geopolitical regions from www.consang.net in October 2010, referencing many of the same 381 surveys as Alan H. Bittles' report (1998) which included information for 6.55 million marriages. In cases when multiple estimates were provided for regions, they computed the mean percentage of consanguineous marriages by weighting individual estimates according to sample size. Table 1 of the appendix summarizes consanguineous marriage data. It shows that Italy's weighted mean consanguineous percentage is 0.591% (VC-CODER COMMENT).
Feb. 4, 2023, 6:05 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: IRP-DATA-2
"The Chinese were moving from street prostitution in Italy to working in apartment, a trend evident among the country’s 50,000 total sex workers, said Carchedi. Since 2017 the number of apartment-based prostitutes had risen from about 12,000 to around 30,000, he said, with the remainder on the street." (para 11-12). "Sorgoni estimated that 20 percent of street prostitutes in Italy today are African, 70 percent European and the remainder south American, while 28 per cent of the total are transsexual. A boom in arrivals of Nigerian prostitutes, which peaked in 2016 when 16,000 arrived in Italy, many on boats from Libya, was now tailing off, he said." (para 26-27).more
Variables: IRP-DATA-2
"The Chinese were moving from street prostitution in Italy to working in apartment, a trend evident among the country’s 50,000 total sex workers, said Carchedi. Since 2017 the number of apartment-based prostitutes had risen from about 12,000 to around 30,000, he said, with the remainder on the street." (para 11-12). "Sorgoni estimated that 20 percent of street prostitutes in Italy today are African, 70 percent European and the remainder south American, while 28 per cent of the total are transsexual. A boom in arrivals of Nigerian prostitutes, which peaked in 2016 when 16,000 arrived in Italy, many on boats from Libya, was now tailing off, he said." (para 26-27).more
Feb. 4, 2023, 6:05 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: IRP-LAW-1
"Under Italian law, selling sex is legal, but pimping is not, and one expert said he suspected pimps were lurking behind a lot of the women advertising sex online. 'Are these women placing the ads on these sites, or is someone doing it for them? How do we know? Is there a filter?' said Fabio Sorgoni, the head of anti-trafficking at charity On the Road." (para 22-23).
Variables: IRP-LAW-1
"Under Italian law, selling sex is legal, but pimping is not, and one expert said he suspected pimps were lurking behind a lot of the women advertising sex online. 'Are these women placing the ads on these sites, or is someone doing it for them? How do we know? Is there a filter?' said Fabio Sorgoni, the head of anti-trafficking at charity On the Road." (para 22-23).
Feb. 4, 2023, 6:05 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-1
"In a building that boasts six lawyers’ offices, a media company, a property firm and a psychotherapist, no-one had seen the murderer flee. Within minutes he struck again, this time stabbing Marta Castaño Torres, 65, in her nearby basement apartment where she hosted clients so she could send money back to her children in Colombia." (para 5). "At Via Riboty and Via Durazzo, many neighbours of the murder victims said they had no idea the women were plying their trade in their flats, although one mother living above Castaño Torres told The Times she had seen a stream of well dressed men heading for her apartment. 'They looked like family...more
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-1
"In a building that boasts six lawyers’ offices, a media company, a property firm and a psychotherapist, no-one had seen the murderer flee. Within minutes he struck again, this time stabbing Marta Castaño Torres, 65, in her nearby basement apartment where she hosted clients so she could send money back to her children in Colombia." (para 5). "At Via Riboty and Via Durazzo, many neighbours of the murder victims said they had no idea the women were plying their trade in their flats, although one mother living above Castaño Torres told The Times she had seen a stream of well dressed men heading for her apartment. 'They looked like family...more
Feb. 4, 2023, 6:05 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: TRAFF-PRACTICE-2
"Declining to give her name, the woman walked on swiftly, passing the shared flat on Via Riboty where two Chinese prostitutes were murdered last week, allegedly by a mobster with a history of violence. He then made it three victims within minutes when he fatally stabbed a Colombian prostitute at a nearby well-to-do apartment building. The women were ghosts while alive, unknown even to their neighbours. In death they are dominating the headlines as their brutal murders lift the lid on Rome’s hidden world of foreign prostitutes — often trafficked from their home countries to work from apartments in affluent neighbourhoods." (para 2-3). "'They are often brought in to Italy...more
Variables: TRAFF-PRACTICE-2
"Declining to give her name, the woman walked on swiftly, passing the shared flat on Via Riboty where two Chinese prostitutes were murdered last week, allegedly by a mobster with a history of violence. He then made it three victims within minutes when he fatally stabbed a Colombian prostitute at a nearby well-to-do apartment building. The women were ghosts while alive, unknown even to their neighbours. In death they are dominating the headlines as their brutal murders lift the lid on Rome’s hidden world of foreign prostitutes — often trafficked from their home countries to work from apartments in affluent neighbourhoods." (para 2-3). "'They are often brought in to Italy...more
Feb. 4, 2023, 6:05 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-2
"Police quickly arrested Giandavide De Pau, 51, a reported drug user previously accused of assaulting prostitutes who has worked as a driver for Michele “Crazy” Senese, a Neapolitan mafia boss considered a major player in Rome’s drug business. Investigators believe De Pau sought refuge with Castaño Torres after killing the Chinese women, then stabbed her when she refused to take him in. Afterwards he hid out with a Cuban prostitute before his sister gave him up to police." (para 6-7) (NF - CODER COMMENT - Due to De Pau's status in the mafia along with the immigration status of these women, it was difficult to come forward to the police...more
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-2
"Police quickly arrested Giandavide De Pau, 51, a reported drug user previously accused of assaulting prostitutes who has worked as a driver for Michele “Crazy” Senese, a Neapolitan mafia boss considered a major player in Rome’s drug business. Investigators believe De Pau sought refuge with Castaño Torres after killing the Chinese women, then stabbed her when she refused to take him in. Afterwards he hid out with a Cuban prostitute before his sister gave him up to police." (para 6-7) (NF - CODER COMMENT - Due to De Pau's status in the mafia along with the immigration status of these women, it was difficult to come forward to the police...more
Feb. 4, 2023, 6:05 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: TRAFF-DATA-1
"Francesco Carchedi, a social sciences professor at Rome’s La Sapienza university who has studied the growing number of prostitutes working out of apartments in Rome, said he was not surprised, claiming there are now 1,500 Chinese sex workers based in 600 flats and 80 massage parlours in Rome — a third of the city’s prostitutes." (para 9). "'In the Marche region, where I work, every pavement is controlled by someone — usually Albanians or Romanians,' he said. 'Prices there can drop to €10 for sex — the price of a pizza,' he added. Sorgoni estimated that 20 per cent of street prostitutes in Italy today are African, 70 percent European...more
Variables: TRAFF-DATA-1
"Francesco Carchedi, a social sciences professor at Rome’s La Sapienza university who has studied the growing number of prostitutes working out of apartments in Rome, said he was not surprised, claiming there are now 1,500 Chinese sex workers based in 600 flats and 80 massage parlours in Rome — a third of the city’s prostitutes." (para 9). "'In the Marche region, where I work, every pavement is controlled by someone — usually Albanians or Romanians,' he said. 'Prices there can drop to €10 for sex — the price of a pizza,' he added. Sorgoni estimated that 20 per cent of street prostitutes in Italy today are African, 70 percent European...more
Feb. 4, 2023, 6:05 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1
"Police quickly arrested Giandavide De Pau, 51, a reported drug user previously accused of assaulting prostitutes who has worked as a driver for Michele “Crazy” Senese, a Neapolitan mafia boss considered a major player in Rome’s drug business." (para 6).
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1
"Police quickly arrested Giandavide De Pau, 51, a reported drug user previously accused of assaulting prostitutes who has worked as a driver for Michele “Crazy” Senese, a Neapolitan mafia boss considered a major player in Rome’s drug business." (para 6).
Feb. 4, 2023, 6:05 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: TRAFF-PRACTICE-1
"Italy’s amazement that an underworld figure had become a mass murderer combined with the shock that Chinese women were working yards from Rome’s central court, while Castaño Torres was seeing clients in a building full of middle-class families." (para 8). "Italian bids to stop the boats and the Covid pandemic were behind the slowdown, although Sorgoni said a key protagonist was Ewuare II, a religious leader in Edo State in Nigeria. Ewaure, who graduated from the University of Wales, banned the use in 2018 of voodoo ceremonies which had been used by traffickers to terrify young Nigerian women from Edo State into working as prostitutes in Italy. 'That ban had...more
Variables: TRAFF-PRACTICE-1
"Italy’s amazement that an underworld figure had become a mass murderer combined with the shock that Chinese women were working yards from Rome’s central court, while Castaño Torres was seeing clients in a building full of middle-class families." (para 8). "Italian bids to stop the boats and the Covid pandemic were behind the slowdown, although Sorgoni said a key protagonist was Ewuare II, a religious leader in Edo State in Nigeria. Ewaure, who graduated from the University of Wales, banned the use in 2018 of voodoo ceremonies which had been used by traffickers to terrify young Nigerian women from Edo State into working as prostitutes in Italy. 'That ban had...more
Feb. 4, 2023, 6:05 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: LDS-PRACTICE-2
"Francesco Carchedi, a social sciences professor at Rome’s La Sapienza university who has studied the growing number of prostitutes working out of apartments in Rome, said he was not surprised, claiming there are now 1,500 Chinese sex workers based in 600 flats and 80 massage parlours in Rome — a third of the city’s prostitutes. 'They are often brought in to Italy by criminal groups on a bus from Turkey and get a day visa to go to Venice then vanish,' he said. 'The gangs then take their passport and make them work off a debt of up to €15,000 for the trip from China. They get to keep about...more
Variables: LDS-PRACTICE-2
"Francesco Carchedi, a social sciences professor at Rome’s La Sapienza university who has studied the growing number of prostitutes working out of apartments in Rome, said he was not surprised, claiming there are now 1,500 Chinese sex workers based in 600 flats and 80 massage parlours in Rome — a third of the city’s prostitutes. 'They are often brought in to Italy by criminal groups on a bus from Turkey and get a day visa to go to Venice then vanish,' he said. 'The gangs then take their passport and make them work off a debt of up to €15,000 for the trip from China. They get to keep about...more
Jan. 16, 2023, 10:15 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: NGOFW-PRACTICE-1
"Dr. Elisabetta Canitano, a gynecologist and president of the feminist group Vita di Donna, says migrant and trafficked women are disproportionately affected by this rhetoric" (para 45).
Variables: NGOFW-PRACTICE-1
"Dr. Elisabetta Canitano, a gynecologist and president of the feminist group Vita di Donna, says migrant and trafficked women are disproportionately affected by this rhetoric" (para 45).
Jan. 16, 2023, 10:15 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: FSCB-LAW-1
"In the November draft budget, Salvini supported a League initiative to give families who have a third child between 2019 and 2021 state-held land for 20 years" (para 45).
Variables: FSCB-LAW-1
"In the November draft budget, Salvini supported a League initiative to give families who have a third child between 2019 and 2021 state-held land for 20 years" (para 45).
Jan. 16, 2023, 10:15 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"During her first three doctor’s visits at seven, 12 and 15 weeks, Emma – whose name has been changed to protect her identity due to societal stigma around abortion – says she was told everything was going well" (para 4). "In the European Union, 22 out of 28 member states, including Italy, currently provide the right to conscientious objection over abortion, according to the WHO’s 2018 Global Abortion Policies Database. Across Italy, 68.4% of gynecologists identify as 'conscientious objectors,' according to 2017 Italian Ministry of Health data. In some parts of the country, accessing an abortion can be nearly impossible, with gynecologists in the southern regions of Molise and Basilicata...more
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1
"During her first three doctor’s visits at seven, 12 and 15 weeks, Emma – whose name has been changed to protect her identity due to societal stigma around abortion – says she was told everything was going well" (para 4). "In the European Union, 22 out of 28 member states, including Italy, currently provide the right to conscientious objection over abortion, according to the WHO’s 2018 Global Abortion Policies Database. Across Italy, 68.4% of gynecologists identify as 'conscientious objectors,' according to 2017 Italian Ministry of Health data. In some parts of the country, accessing an abortion can be nearly impossible, with gynecologists in the southern regions of Molise and Basilicata...more