Every two and a half days in Italyone dies womens by the hand of those who say they love her. The last to lose her life like this was Anna Lisa Cacciari. He was 65 years old and lived in Budrio in the province of Bologna. Her husband Athos Vitali, 69, killed her. A fight for futile reasons, she had scolded him. It almost never happened that they argued, he said, as if it were the justification for a sudden fit.

«Even if it is a disgrace, at least it isa circumscribed crime, not an act of delinquency as it seemed at first, ”said the mayor of the town. Immediately challenged by the anti-violence centers because the killing of a woman is an act of delinquency. «Male violence against women - explains the Coordination of the anti-violence centers of Emilia-Romagna - is a phenomenon that cannot be defined as limited, given the pervasiveness and the high number of women killed each year. They do not kill the anger and rage of a fleeting moment of loss of control; the femicideit is instead the culmination of a violence that is often years long and has at its root a relationship of power and abuse of men over women ».

THE NUMBERS OF FEMINICIDE
In the first 10 months of the 2017 were114 women killed. The data is in the fourth report of EURES on femicide in Italy, spread on the occasion of the international day for the elimination of violence against women which is celebrated on 25th November. In 2016 there were 150 femicides, in 2015 they were 142. An increase of 5,6% with more than 20 victims in Lombardy and 17 in Veneto. From 2000 to today, the women victims of voluntary homicide in Italy have been 3000, 37,1% of all people killed.

Denouncing can and must, even if for many women it is the most difficult step, precisely for this reason there are many who ask that these crimes can be proceeded ex officio without reporting, by changing the legislation. There are dozens of associations that deal with women who have suffered violence in Italy or who are victims of ill-treatment. There are local centers and national associations with Il Pink telephone, which responds to the 06-37518282,The women's home so as not to be subjected to violence e Say, women on the net so as not to be subjected to violence, which connects organizations in the area.

The associations are the first to respond and ask for help from the social services and the police in order not to reach the feminine, the tragic media, in Italy, of A caseevery three days. A case like thousands of them still happen in the world. Cases such as the one at the origin of the international day. November 25 is the date of death of three women, three sisters.

THE HISTORY OF THE DAY
It was 1960 when Patria Mercedes, María Argentina Minerva and Antonia María Teresa Mirabal they were killed. With their fourth sister, Bélgica Adela, they opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. When Trujillo came to power, their family lost everything. Their assets were first nationalized, then expropriated by the dictator. They entered the "June 14 Movement" against the regime. Their nom de guerre was Butterflies, butterflies.

On November 25, 1960, the Mirabal sisters went to visit their husbands inprison of Puerto Plata. The car in which they were traveling was intercepted and the women were forced to get out, taken to a sugarcane plantation and beaten to death. Their bodies were put back in the car and it was thrown off a cliff to simulate an accident.

ONU
With resolution number 54/134 of December 17 1999 the United Nations General Assembly has designated this as an international day for the elimination of violence against women. Until December 10, UN Human Rights Day, there are 16 days of activities against the gender violence.

THE NUMBERS IN THE WORLD
"A health problem of epidemic dimensions". Thus the director general of the World Health Organization Margaret Chan defined violence against women by presenting in 2013 the largest study ever done on physical and sexual abuse suffered by women around the world. 35% of women experience some form of violence in their lifetime, including i early marriages. More than a third of women on the entire planet. According to UNICEF data, 200 million young women and girls suffered in 2015genital mutilation. In Europe, 25 out of 100 women are abused by partners. In Italy it occurs in one out of three cases e they often remain orphansblameless children.

THE ITALIAN CASES
"Everything that limits a woman in her identity and freedom is gender violence" said the President of the Senate Pietro Grasso, also recalling that it is necessary "to pass from the culture of possession to that ofrespect". It is he who quotes the sentence that one of this year's victims wrote on his Facebook page: "It is not love if it hurts you. It is not love if it controls you. It is not love if you are afraid of being what you are. "Noemi Durini she had posted it a few days before she was killed by her boyfriend.

His case has reached the national news, it has not happened to everyone. For every story we know there are many more of daily violence no one will ever know anything about. Ingallery above there are women's stories killed at the hands of husbands, boyfriends and companions, at the hands of those who said they loved them. Of some there are faces, of others not because all are also symbols of silent violence which happen every day and which are not reported.

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