Premier Giorgia Meloni said on Friday
she would like survivors of gender-based violence or relatives
of victims to speak in schools for the International Day for the
Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25.
"Nothing is more educational," Meloni told journalist Bruno
Vespa in an interview at the forum 'Italy to Come' at Masseria
Li Reni.
On Wednesday the government approved a bill clamping down on
gender-based after a recent string of headline-grabbing
femicides in Italy.
The package includes new restraining orders and heightened
surveillance on men guilty of domestic violence and it also
boosts the emergency gender violence hotline.
The measures aim to interrupt the cycle of violence" and to "act
promptly and effectively", according to Family and Equal
Opportunities Minister Eugenia
Roccella.
According to official figures, femicides are up significantly
this year while the overall homicide rate has dropped.
Late last month a man killed his seven-month pregnant partner
near Milan after she objected to his affair with another woman,
while in Rome a woman police officer was shot dead by a
colleague she had had a relationship with, after which he shot
himself.
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