“We welcome the GREVIO report, the group of experts on violence against women, dedicated to Italy and published today by the Council of Europe, which raises and explores many of the critical issues highlighted by D.i.Re in the last months".
This is what he says Antonella Veltri, President of D.i.Re – Donne in rete contro la violenza, the largest national association of anti-violence centers, which in 2019 presented the Shadow report of civil society for GREVIO and participated in the monitoring visit of the experts of the Council of Europe which resulted in the Report released today.
"The GREVIO Report on Italy confirms the distance between the theory of the legislative framework and practice: the means, training and awareness of all the professionals involved must be guaranteed to implement the laws", he affirms Marcella Pirrone, lawyer D.i.Re and among the editors of the Shadow Report. "Laws judged to be good, such as 119/2013, in fact do not obtain the expected results, so much so that, according to the GREVIO experts, the National Anti-violence Plan fails to produce an integrated and systemic response to violence and the financing of the centers anti-violence continues to be problematic ".
"The GREVIO Report calls for an urgent examination of what happens in judicial practice and services in general", emphasizes the lawyer Elena Biaggioni, who with Pirrone coordinated the work for the shadow report published by D.i.Re. "The accusation of parental alienation directed by the CTU (technical consultancy office) to women victims of violence in cases for the custody of children is particularly worrying the experts."
"Even the Security Decree, the flag law of the previous government, is criticized by GREVIO, because women victims of violence risk being rejected without being able to request the international protection to which they are entitled", he says Tweety Carrano, lawyer D.i.Re, "And there is no approach aimed at bringing out and addressing the multiple discrimination suffered by women with a view to respecting human rights".
"The GREVIO experts reiterate the importance of the strong involvement of women's organizations that manage anti-violence centers in defining policies", notes President Veltri, "with provision of adequate long-term / multi-year financial and human resources and the express recognition of methodology of anti-violence centers ".
"Only in this way can women's rights and gender equality become the focus of policies again", concludes Veltri, "to respond to the strong concern expressed by GREVIO regarding the prevalence of family policies and traditional maternity".