D.i.Re – Donne in Rete contro la violenza – also this year – will be in the square at the national demonstration against male violence against women.

“It is essential to be there for the 98 femicides since the beginning of the year and for the 21.842 women welcomed in the first 10 months of this year” declares Antonella Veltri, president of D.i.Re – Donne in Rete contro la violenza. “We know very well that the hard core of prejudices and stereotypes on which male power against women is based has not yet been dented and that patriarchy is alive and well” continues Veltri. “The experience of welcoming our anti-violence centers makes us sure that denying its existence, minimizing its effects is violence and we want to affirm with conviction that if a representative of the institutions does it, it is state violence” states Veltri.

D.i.Re – Donne in Rete contro la violenza invites everyone to participate in the national demonstrations in Rome and Palermo on November 23, but also in all the local demonstrations scheduled for November 25 to spread more and more awareness about violence against women: to ignore – as is happening publicly – the asymmetry of power between men and women is to collude with a system of values ​​and beliefs, prejudices and traditions that force women into a subordinate position with respect to men, a system that legitimises mistreatment and abuse against women and minors.

Women continue to experience situations of mistreatment and violence, even together with their sons and daughters, in their homes; women continue to be paid less than men in the workplace or remain unemployed; women are often not believed in the courts and are re-victimized and also for this reason they continue not to report the violence they have suffered.

This government is trying to implement the attempt to shift attention to something else, to immigration, to seek the causes of a structural and systemic phenomenon that finds its framework in patriarchy.

“It is not a law that abolishes patriarchy, but a strong social, political and cultural movement” concludes President Veltri.