Cultural exchange Italy- Belgium

2017-2018

In Italy, in 1946, women got right to vote. This was the first step for their integration in the society.

“All citizens have equal social dignity and are equal before the law, without distinction of sex, race, language, religion, political opinion, personal and social conditions.”

-Constitution of the Italian Republic (Art.3)

1946

1960s Birth of feminist movements

In 1970’ Diiiiii iii iiiiiiiiii

• New reform of the family law. With it the hierarchy of the family dominated by man had come to an end as well as discriminations on children inside and outside the marriage.

1975

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And that was great for me as a young woman,

because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

Dolores Huerta

1996 The Department was established in 1996 and it deals with the coordination of regulatory and administrative initiatives in all matters relating to the design and implementation of equal opportunities policies.

Legal and political measures against violence and stalking in Italy

States have clear obligations under international law to address violence against women. The requirement to adopt and implement national action plans to address violence against women is set out in international and regional human rights instruments and policy documents. The adoption and implementation of multi-sectoral national plans of action to address violence against women is one of the five key outcomes which the Secretary-General’s campaign ‘UNiTE to end violence against women’ aims to achieve in all countries by 2015

2010

2011

A certain number of measures concerning the partecipation of

women to important public charges and in private companies were issued

15 Ottobre 2011

2016

Civil unions were recognised

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