Summer of red shoes: the ‘virus’ of violence against women is endemic.
The carnage continues
Violence against women is stable and predictable, just like an endemic disease. In the field of health, endemic is an adjective used to indicate infectious diseases that are constantly present in a given region or population, without the need for carriers arriving from outside… just like in the situations of violence against women recorded in recent weeks in Italy, where the numbers remain ‘genocidal’, reads a report by Istat. www.istat.it.pdf
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In an endemic disease, prevalence and incidence typically fluctuate slightly, often due to variations in the number of susceptible individuals or due to seasonality.
While pointing out that the perpetrators of extreme violence are, in 80% of cases, partners, ex-partners or family members, it is also good and useful to emphasise that in fine weather, feminicides increase, not to mention gang rapes that even reach the point of tormenting little girls: see the recent case of the two little cousins from Caivano aged 10 and 12 years old by a ‘pack’ made up largely of friends from the neighbourhood – even minors – who had been taking advantage of them for months.
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A CULTURAL AND MORAL REVOLUTION IS URGENTLY NEEDED
our Protection and Accompaniment Services
against gender-based and domestic violence
involving women and children
are increasingly crowded.
LET US NOT RESIGN OURSELVES TO HORROR
“As president of the Commission of Inquiry on Femicide, Valente also said that there is a 64 per cent of victims who remain undeclared. On the one hand the culture, on the other the lack of prospects: 37% of Italians do not have a bank account and the Freedom Income, set up in 2020 for victims of violence, has gone from EUR 3 million to 1.8, in a country where, Veltri observes, ‘one of the most acute forms of violence is economic violence: that is why interventions must be multidimensional’. Because ‘both men and women do not recognise violence: the former come convinced that their anger was provoked by the victim, the latter blame themselves for the violence they have suffered. They are all victims of a systemic patriarchy and machismo’. (Source: Repubblica.it)
