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Jan. 9, 2025, 4:59 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-1, MARR-LAW-1

"Article 544 of the Italian criminal code recognized a kind of marriage, the matrimonio riparatore, that would forgive the man for his crime and restore to the 'damaged' victim her honor and that of her family. Should she refuse to marry her abductor, the young woman would be further victimized as an unmarriagable outcast somehow to blame for her unfortunate circumstances" (para 6).
Jan. 9, 2025, 4:59 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-3

"In the mid-1960s, a brave young Italian woman, Franca Viola, was abducted and violated for a week, then fought a centuries-old tradition that would have her marry her abuser to “restore” her honor" (para 1). "Article 544 of the Italian criminal code recognized a kind of marriage, the matrimonio riparatore, that would forgive the man for his crime and restore to the 'damaged' victim her honor and that of her family. Should she refuse to marry her abductor, the young woman would be further victimized as an unmarriagable outcast somehow to blame for her unfortunate circumstances" (para 6).
Jan. 9, 2025, 4:59 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: LRW-LAW-4

"Article 544 of the Italian criminal code recognized a kind of marriage, the matrimonio riparatore, that would forgive the man for his crime and restore to the 'damaged' victim her honor and that of her family. Should she refuse to marry her abductor, the young woman would be further victimized as an unmarriagable outcast somehow to blame for her unfortunate circumstances" (para 6). "Article 544, allowing a rapist to marry his victim for reparation, was finally repealed in 1981" (para 16).
Jan. 3, 2025, 12:32 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"Legislation on topics beyond family issues, including a sweeping, government-backed security bill already approved by the lower house, takes aim at climate activists and labor unions by criminalizing protests that obstruct roads and railways, opponents say" (par. 11).
Jan. 3, 2025, 12:32 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1

"'The people who can’t hide this are gay couples,' said Alessia Crocini, director of Rainbow Families, a group that opposed the law. 'This is about [targeting] gay fathers'" (par. 6). "Experts said the Italian move could further the debate over an international treaty on surrogacy. Pope Francis, who has decried surrogacy as 'womb renting,' this year called for a global ban" (par. 13). "'This law is disgusting,' said Salvatore Scarpa, who, with his domestic partner Luca Capuano, had their daughter Paola with the aid of a California-based surrogate mother last year. The couple said they will defy the new law and move forward with plans for the same birth mother...more
Jan. 3, 2025, 12:32 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: RISW-PRACTICE-1

"Italy on Wednesday passed the West’s most restrictive law against international surrogacy, threatening would-be parents who use birth mothers abroad with jail time and severe fines in a move that critics say will chiefly target same-sex couples. Domestic surrogacy was already banned in Italy, as it is in some other countries and U.S. states, but the amended Italian law goes further, classifying surrogacy as a rare universal crime that transcends borders, like terrorism or genocide" (par. 1-2).
Jan. 3, 2025, 12:32 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: GIC-LAW-1

"Italy on Wednesday passed the West’s most restrictive law against international surrogacy, threatening would-be parents who use birth mothers abroad with jail time and severe fines in a move that critics say will chiefly target same-sex couples. Domestic surrogacy was already banned in Italy, as it is in some other countries and U.S. states, but the amended Italian law goes further, classifying surrogacy as a rare universal crime that transcends borders, like terrorism or genocide. . .Same-sex couples are already barred under Italian law from domestic or international adoption. Thus, the new law effectively cuts off the last, best route for gay male couples residing in Italy to start families"...more
Jan. 3, 2025, 12:32 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: CLCC-LAW-2

"Her [Meloni's] government and its backers in Parliament have moved to stop same-sex couples from registering their children’s birth certificates and have sought to curtail gender-affirming care for minors" (par. 11). "A Meloni government edict last year barred Italian cities and towns from registering birth certificates listing parents of the same sex, denying their children access to citizenship, public schools, health care and other benefits and services. That ruling is being disputed in the courts, but for now, the couple has been unable to legally register their 14-month old daughter, who lives at their home near Naples as an American citizen who overstayed her visa. They will face the same...more
Jan. 3, 2025, 12:32 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: CBMC-PRACTICE-1

"Italy on Wednesday passed the West’s most restrictive law against international surrogacy, threatening would-be parents who use birth mothers abroad with jail time and severe fines in a move that critics say will chiefly target same-sex couples. . .'It is nature that decides this, not us,' said Sen. Susanna Campione, from Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, who voted in favor of the law. 'We wish for this example to be followed [by other countries],' she added. 'This is a civilized law that safeguards the child but also the woman, since we believe that surrogacy essentially reduces a woman to a reproductive machine'" (par. 1, 8-9). This seems to suggest that...more
Jan. 3, 2025, 12:32 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: TRAFF-LAW-1, ATC-DATA-5

"Last year in Morocco, an international convention of experts from 70 countries issued a joint decree calling for a universal surrogacy ban. In April, the European Parliament voted to include 'the exploitation of surrogate motherhood' under acts of 'human trafficking'" (par. 13).
Jan. 3, 2025, 12:32 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ACR-PRACTICE-1

"That and other aspects of the amended law may be hard to enforce. Even backers of the legislation concede that heterosexual couples may face few questions when returning to Italy with an infant, or when registering their child’s birth certificate with local municipalities. Who is to say that the woman in that couple didn’t deliver the baby while abroad? By contrast, an infant in the arms of same-sex parents — particularly two men — would amount to an obvious red flag" (par. 5). "'We wish for this example to be followed [by other countries],' she added. 'This is a civilized law that safeguards the child but also the woman, since...more
Jan. 3, 2025, 12:32 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ACR-LAW-1

"Italy on Wednesday passed the West’s most restrictive law against international surrogacy, threatening would-be parents who use birth mothers abroad with jail time and severe fines in a move that critics say will chiefly target same-sex couples. Domestic surrogacy was already banned in Italy, as it is in some other countries and U.S. states, but the amended Italian law goes further, classifying surrogacy as a rare universal crime that transcends borders, like terrorism or genocide" (par. 1-2). "The law, passed last year by the lower house and effectively ensured by the Senate vote on Wednesday, also criminalizes work by Italian citizens employed as doctors, nurses and technicians in foreign fertility...more
Jan. 3, 2025, 12:32 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ACR-DATA-1

"Roughly 90 percent of the 250 or so couples in Italy who rely on international surrogacy each year here are heterosexual" (par. 19).
Dec. 31, 2024, 4:46 p.m.
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Variables: IRP-SCALE-1

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Dec. 13, 2024, 10:52 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1

"Cortellesi said she wanted to make the film, partly inspired by her grandmothers’ stories of that period, in the past in order to raise issues that persist in Italian society amid a lingering toxic machismo" (para 10).
Dec. 13, 2024, 10:52 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: DV-LAW-1

"After Cecchetin’s murder, the Italian parliament approved a range of measures to clamp down on violence against women, including expanding protections for women at risk and toughening restraining orders and penalties against men guilty of domestic violence. It was a rare show of unity between the ruling and opposition parties" (para 19).
Dec. 13, 2024, 10:52 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"The film’s themes further resonated after the murder in November of Giulia Cecchettin, a 22-year-old student, who was allegedly beaten by her former boyfriend. In reaction, thousands of people protested across Italy on 25 November, which was International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Cortellesi says there were more than 100 femicides in Italy in 2023 before Cecchettin’s death, and several more occurred by the end of the year. On average in Italy, a woman is murdered by a man, usually someone who cannot accept the end of a relationship, every three days" (para 14-16).
Dec. 13, 2024, 10:52 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: WAM-PRACTICE-1

"Lying in bed, the slap across the face was Ivano’s response to his wife, Delia, played by Cortellesi, bidding him 'good morning'. The gesture set the tone for the 1940s-set black-and-white film’s depiction of poverty, domestic violence, women’s rights and a mother’s determination to break the cycle of abuse in post-second world war Rome. Audiences are more accustomed to Cortellesi, who co-wrote the film, making them laugh rather than slapping them with hard-hitting themes, which made the phenomenal box-office success of C’è ancora domani – it is among Italy’s Top 10 highest-grossing films ever – a surprise, even for her" (para 3-5). "C’è ancora domani is set in 1946, the...more
Dec. 13, 2024, 10:52 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: SAB-PRACTICE-1

"The film’s themes further resonated after the murder in November of Giulia Cecchettin, a 22-year-old student, who was allegedly beaten by her former boyfriend. In reaction, thousands of people protested across Italy on 25 November, which was International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women" (para 14).
Dec. 12, 2024, 9:28 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: MABFC-DATA-1

"According to a recent Department of Health report, Italian women are, on average, older than 31 when they have their first child. About 62 percent of babies in 2022 were born to mothers aged between 30 and 39. Those aged between 20 and 29 accounted for 26 percent of births, compared with 30 percent in 2012" (para 18-19).
Dec. 12, 2024, 9:28 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: GP-DATA-1

"Presenting the government’s 2024 budget, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who has made clear her desire to increase the birth rate, announced measures for families with children" (para 30).
Dec. 12, 2024, 9:28 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: GIC-LAW-1, GIC-LAW-3

"While women get five months’ maternity leave, fathers are entitled to just 10 days" (para 24). "Presenting the government’s 2024 budget, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who has made clear her desire to increase the birth rate, announced measures for families with children, including free nursery care for a second child, the temporary exemption of women with two or more children from social security contributions, and benefits for companies that hire mothers on permanent contracts" (para 30).
Dec. 12, 2024, 9:28 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ERBG-DATA-4

"Women are also often more likely to be employed in 'non-standard' arrangements, such as part-time and temporary jobs. And it is mothers and young women who are the most affected" (para 8).
Dec. 12, 2024, 9:28 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ERBG-DATA-1, ERBG-DATA-2

"The country is home to the lowest female employment rate in the European Union and a steep gender pay gap" (para 8).
Dec. 12, 2024, 9:28 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: CL-PRACTICE-1

"Official figures show that 72 percent of resignations in 2021 were submitted by women. Most of those who quit cited the difficulties associated with juggling work and childcare duties. 'Care work is still all on women’s shoulders, even for couples where both have jobs,' Chiara Daniela Pronzato, professor of demography at the University of Turin, told Al Jazeera" (para 23-24). "Good quality and affordable childcare is in short supply. There are not enough state-run nursery places and private preschools are very expensive. Plans to use 4.6 billion euros of the EU’s COVID-19 recovery funds to build new nurseries are lagging. 'The most expensive aspect of parenthood is children’s time. Caring...more
Dec. 12, 2024, 9:28 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"The average number of children per woman is now 1.24, one of the lowest rates in Europe. To compare, France’s rate, which is considered high, was 1.8 in 2021 while Greece’s was 1.4, according to the World Bank" (para 20).
Dec. 12, 2024, 9:28 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: BR-PRACTICE-2

"While women are under less societal pressure to have children, in Italy, the biggest obstacle to motherhood for some is being able to afford it" (para 22).
Dec. 10, 2024, 4 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: IIP-LAW-2

"On Wednesday, after final passage of a bill to protect women with such measures as increased use of electronic monitoring devices for men stalking or threatening them, lawmakers from the opposition 5-Star Movement pounded rhythmically on their desks 'in a minute of noise'" (para 21).
Dec. 10, 2024, 4 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"After the latest, horrifying killing of a college student allegedly by her resentful and jealous ex-boyfriend, students from Turin to Palermo have taken to pounding on classroom desks in unison to demand a stop to the slaying of women in Italy at the hands of men. Just days before the killing of 22-year-old Giulia Cecchettin, Italians were already applauding a blockbuster movie about a woman who endures beatings and belittling by her overbearing husband" (para 1-2). "Giulia Cecchettin disappeared after meeting her former boyfriend, Filippo Turetta, for a burger at a shopping mall, just days before she was to receive her degree in biomedical engineering at the University of Padua....more
Dec. 10, 2024, 4 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: GP-DATA-1

"Director Cortellesi appealed to the two most powerful women in Italian politics today — far-right Premier Giorgia Meloni and Elly Schlein, who heads the Democratic Party, Parliament’s largest force on the left" (para 22).