“We invite everyone to come alongside women on May 25th, we will be present as anti-violence centres, shelters and anti-violence offices at the demonstration called by the Non Una di Meno movement to reiterate the self-determination of women and the entire network of anti-violence centres. feminists.”
The anti-violence centers of Lazio against the Government’s decision to let them in anti-abortion associations in clinics. A decision, explain the CAV operators, which not only violates the rights of the women themselves, but which risks pushing them towards private healthcare. Because if prolifers were to cross the thresholds of these structures, the privacy of those who decide to interrupt one pregnancy will inevitably be compromised. Failing one of the key principles of these places, where women could no longer be protected.
The DiRe anti-violence centers, launching their participation in the procession of Not One Less of May 25 against the presence of prolifers in the clinics, they asked the Lazio Region to open “a table at a regional level between institutions, politics and anti-violence centers so that the needs of women and the needs that work requires can be put at the center expert created to protect and support pathways out of violence, for the constant improvement of governance in the anti-violence network and of the tested methodology of reception and complex work”.
Not only that: anti-violence centers do not exclude lawsuits if 194 is not applied correctly. “The DiRe anti-violence centers – Women in the network against violence – they declare in a note – will promote resistance and monitoring actions in the territories and at national level. The anti-violence centers are aware of institutional violence and will provide support to women, evaluating, where the conditions exist and together with the women themselves, legal initiatives, monitoring the correct application of law 194. We believe it is important to guarantee the implementation of the IVG within the timescales required by law, avoiding that women have to refer to the management of the interior service. A system to the detriment of those who cannot bear this cost and which colludes with guaranteeing freedom of choice.”
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What the anti-violence centers also contest is not being involved by the institutions to combat gender violence. With the result that bodies and associations without any specific training risk being involved, totally inadequate to support those who try to escape situations of abuse. And that they can do more harm than good.
“For example, there are calls and notices from municipal bodies which essentially aim to provide buffer services more suitable to give an image of a resolving intervention than to adequately and effectively support women on the path to escaping violence. Such ‘bad practice’, as underlined by Grevio (independent body with the specific task of monitoring the implementation of the Istanbul Convention within the signatory countries and providing recommendations aimed at making national legislation and application practice increasingly in line with the objectives of the Convention itself ) ends up compromising quality work elThe impact of neutralizing this specificity of anti-violence centers can be dramatic questioning the certainty, the safe spaces in support of women, sons and daughters that women’s organizations have always tried to guarantee”.
“We invite everyone to come alongside women on May 25th, we will be present as anti-violence centres, shelters and anti-violence offices at the demonstration called by the Non Una di Meno movement to reaffirm the self-determination of women and the entire network of anti-violence centres. feminists”.
