La Strategic Litigation it is a form of human rights protection that uses judicial litigation beyond the single case, with the aim of introducing social, cultural and legal change. Sstrategic Litigation aims to investigate cases that reach the higher and / or supranational jurisdictions.

The victim of the specific case benefits directly, but also society and institutions. With the Sstrategic Litigation the goal is always holistic, to modify the existing one and to get to training and collaboration activities between the various stakeholders.

La Strategic Litigation uses the legal tool to affect situations that have little attention or visibility, or that have been rooted for some time and aims to highlight legislative or jurisprudential criticalities in order to modify them.

It is a very common strategy in Anglo-Saxon countries and in Europe it is used for bring cases to the European Court of Human Rights and to disseminate knowledge of court decisions in domestic law. 

In Italy there have been cases of S.strategic Litigation, for example as regards the overcrowding of prisons, the secular nature of the state and the issue of immigration. 

An S is missingstrategic Litigation specifies that it is about the theme of male violence against women and issues of discrimination against women with an approach that poses at the center the rights of women living in situations of violence. 

To begin to think about this very important issue, last December 21, we wanted to deepen the theme of St.strategic Litigation with the operators of the anti-violence centers of the network. We have introduced the so-called strategic litigation (Sstrategic Litigation, in fact) also with the participation of Professor Paolo Spagnolo of the University of Turin - head of the Strategic Litigation: International Human Rights Legal Clinic course.

The first goal we set ourselves was to lay the foundations for to structure a "gymnasium" for strategic litigation for cases of male violence against women and for gender discrimination starting from our association, in the hope of being able to structure the cases that could reach the European Court of Human Rights or the CEDAW Committee.

According to Elena Biaggioni, contact person of the Avvocate group D.i.Re, "It could be, for example, an opportunity to open new avenues for the recognition of Article 31 of the Istanbul Convention which governs child custody, access rights and security in cases of separation where male violence against women is carried out and violence witnessed by minors ".