Violence against women: Meritocracy Italy, ‘freedom of income to protect women victims, no palliatives’

“Since the beginning of the year, in Italy, 96 women have been killed, of which 82 in the family environment. Known episodes to which is added the submerged unease that has never been reported, made up of mistreatment, threats, illegitimate violations of freedom and attempted murders. a phenomenon, already worrying, seems to have worsened due to the restrictions on mobility imposed by the recent pandemic emergency. In the last period there has been an increase of about 80% in calls to the emergency number and to anti-violence centers. doubt that the problem is primarily cultural “. Thus in a note Meritocrazia Italia. “The Company still seems strongly imbued with anachronistic cultural heritage. In the background a desolating panorama of value drift. The solution – notes Meritocrazia Italia – is certainly in a solicitation of consciences, through an adequate work of sensitization, information and re-education, in a synergy of action between political groups, social services, law enforcement agencies, the judiciary, the health and education system. Meritocrazia Italia welcomes the recent initiative to introduce a so-called ‘income of freedom’, to protect women victims of violence followed by anti-violence centers recognized by the Regions (which are responsible for issuing a declaration on the real condition of necessity in which the applicant is concerned), while considering it a useful measure, but in itself not sufficient and in any case aimed only at those who have the courage or the possibility of reporting and relying on recognized safeguards “. “Faced with the dimension of the problem – observes Meritocrazia Italia -, palliatives are not needed but serious support measures, also in prevention, an adequate regulatory reform and a new integrated vision policy”. To this end, Meritocrazia Italia urges: “a constant and growing commitment of the school system which, together with the family nucleus, encourages education in respect and the enhancement of diversity; a qualitative and quantitative growth, with greater capillarity, of anti-violence centers on territories, for a more immediate and timely response, with the appropriate redistribution of dedicated economic resources, in support not only of the victim but of the entire family involved in the events; greater attention to active policies for the inclusion of women, so that conditions of independence are created and autonomy, which help the awareness of one’s freedom (economic autonomy, congruous and lasting, is the fundamental and essential tool for redefining any life path); a welfare system capable of networking around women, favoring congenial choices to a greater independence of life, not through sporadic subsidies, m a with maternity support structures; the implementation of community houses for men accused of overt physical and / or psychological violence, who are involved in building psychological recovery paths; the establishment of specific training courses, starting from the university period, to create specialized figures both in the legal world and in the police, in order to be able to welcome women who, recovering trust in institutions, find the courage to denounce the violence suffered ; to limit the costs of any biased medical-scientific appraisals in order not to burden the women subject of violence with anticipated expenses “.