"Female empowerment and violence against women are not two different “things”, President Meloni. The affirmation of women in the public sphere, so often still inhibited and precluded by the private and exclusively caring role – assigned by patriarchal culture to women and therefore not chosen, creates the conditions of asymmetry of social and economic positions that nourish and feed inequality and domination.” declares Antonella Veltri, president D.i.Re - Women on the Net against violence. "Madam President of the Council, your words make us take steps backwards and ignore the legacy of a culture of male domination that the women's movement has been fighting against male violence against women for decades.”Continues Veltri.

"Blaming the increased presence of non-Italian men for violence against women is truly misleading, a sort of mass distraction that shifts the focus of the discussion from the “culture” you are referring to. And if the emergence of the phenomenon is increasing because women are “taking up space” this, dear President, is because something happened in the past and women, feminism has created the conditions to bring women out of the silence of violence. As for female empowerment, it has certainly not done a service to all women in their journey, declining its important role to the male, thus leaving it still the exclusive domain of men, only momentarily granted to a woman” concludes the president.