On the occasion of the 2021 International Day for the Elimination of
Violence against Women, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
International Cooperation and its foreign network join the awareness-raising
campaign “Orange the World: End Violence against Women Now!” launched
by UN Women. This year, the campaign aims at preventing all forms of violence,
listening to the victims and changing discriminatory social norms to promote
effective gender equality.<\/p>\n
The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown measures have exacerbated
pre-existing vulnerabilities and contributed significantly to the rise in cases
of domestic violence and abuse against women, girls and children in situations
of armed conflict and humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n
Faced with these alarming figures, Italy once again expresses its firmest
condemnation of all forms of discrimination and violence against women, an
unacceptable phenomenon and a serious impediment to the achievement of gender
equality, the effective enjoyment of rights and full personal fulfilment.<\/p>\n
To date, no country in the world can claim to have achieved full gender
equality: the entire international community must therefore continue to firmly
pursue this essential goal.<\/p>\n
The objectives of the elimination of all forms of violence against women and
of women’s empowerment, pillars of Italian foreign policy and development
cooperation, have been at the heart of Italy’s G20 Presidency and are among the
priorities of Italy’s mandate in the United Nations Human Rights Council and
Italy’s six-month Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of
Europe, where Italy supports and promotes the \u201cConvention on preventing and
combating violence against women and domestic violence\u201d (or \u201cIstanbul
Convention\u201d).<\/p>\n
This commitment was also confirmed by the active role that Italy took, in
response to the crisis in Afghanistan, in protecting and promoting the rights
of Afghan women, girls and children, the safeguard of their right to education,
freedom of movement and full participation in public life.<\/p>\n
With regard to the internal organisation of working methods, on October 15
the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation adopted
the Circular letter No. 3\/2021 to guarantee equal gender opportunities by
conforming to the highest standards for promoting gender equality, stressing
the need to ensure the concrete implementation, in daily work, of the
constitutional principle of equality, in terms of both the prohibition of
discrimination and the active promotion of effective equality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the occasion of the 2021 International Day for the Elimination ofViolence against Women, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs andInternational Cooperation and its foreign network join the awareness-raisingcampaign “Orange the World: End Violence against Women Now!” launchedby UN Women. This year, the campaign aims at preventing all forms of violence,listening to the victims and […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conscalcutta.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conscalcutta.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conscalcutta.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conscalcutta.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conscalcutta.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conscalcutta.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conscalcutta.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conscalcutta.esteri.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}