(Finance) – “Policies to prevent gender-based economic violence need to be implemented. Never before has the Istanbul Convention been at the center of a heated debate. We need to work effectively and with determination to implement it fully. She said it Claudia Segre, president of Global Thinking Foundation, during the debate at the Auditorium San Pio X – Angelo Brizi, in Rome after the screening of the docufilm Free to… LIVE.
“It is important to remember that economic violence affects about the 25% of women, with peaks of 40% in some Italian regions. Many of them do not have a personal bank account, nor the management of family money, depending on everything from the income of the partner / husband / family member. According to the data collected by our desk women squared, then inserted into Economic violence prevention manual to defend the right to independence and gender equality, it emerges that in 2022 the 33% of the reports concerned a financial topic, the 28% an economic-family issue, the 18% legal aspects and fraud and another 18% job orientation and bullying. The rest 3% a request on tax and corporate matters. The 56% of the reports came from women between 35 and 50 years old, 17% from women over 50 and 27% from women between 25 and 35”. The role of third sector entities is essential to actively contribute to change, which is also and above all cultural on gender-based violence”.
“The Glt Foundation’s Economic Violence Prevention Handbook is an exceptional ‘summa’ not just all of them various forms of economic violence, but also an effective tool for directing the action of public institutions and the third sector towards the effective repression of these behaviours. I recall that the PNRR itself attributes the transversal priority value to all interventions to policies against inequality”, he commented Renato Loiero.
“Male violence against women continues to be a serious, structural and transversal phenomenon despite the regulations passed in recent years in Italy, thanks to the great commitment of many women inside and outside Parliament. The establishment of the Femicide Inquiry Commission also in the 19th Legislature, which took place on 1 February last, is an important step in continuing the great work of contrasting violence but it is not enough”, said Donatella Conzatti.
At work, moderated by the journalist Janina Landau, responsible for the Rome office of Class CNBC, Donatella Conzatti, senator of the XVIII Legislature and secretary of the Commission of Inquiry into feminicide and all forms of gender-based violence also spoke; Renato Loiero, adviser for budget policies to the President of the Council of Ministers; the director of the docufilm Antonio Silvestre.