Threats to a Life Free from Violence
摘要
The last chapter of the second section is dedicated to the phenomenon of violence against women, which, although widely known and fairly clearly identifiable, continues to be regulated in various ways with significant normative differences. Unfortunately, what is happening in some countries is a withdrawn from certain international conventions or treaties that were believed to represent points of no return. In this chapter, we will try to highlight all the situations where decriminalisation of rapes and various forms of violence against women is occurring (femicide, domestic violence, IPV, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), and cyberviolence), to draw the attention of civil society to this alarm. With regard to sexual harassment and extortion in the workplace, we will try to highlight how, even where the legislative framework is quite clear, mechanisms are lacking to make the implementation of more stringent preventive and counteraction measures. Lastly, another legal gap will be highlighted concerning the use of discriminatory, stigmatising, and violent language on social media (hate speech), but not only (incel and mysoginist groups). The spread of language that tends to neutralise differences and react violently to various expressions where women’s self-determination takes shape underscores the difficulty of asserting a culture of gender equality and the fragility of the achieved results, exposed to continuous attacks from an asymmetric system of dominance that struggles to regress.