Women have always been a powerful force of resistance against Italian organized crime. Those who dared to defy the godfathers paid with their lives for denouncing the violence they suffered,...

Every year in Italy, around 63,000 women terminate their pregnancies, embarking on a long and painful process in which humiliation, judgment, and violence are all too common. The conscientious objection...

Traditionally excluded from initiation rites and leadership positions, the mothers, wives, and sisters of mafia bosses have always taught their children the codes of vengeance and omertà. They also pass...

Flaminia Saccà teaches political sociology at La Sapienza University in Rome. For years, she has been studying how violence against women is treated in the legal and media spheres in...

At the Museo di Roma, in the Palazzo Braschi, an exhibition dedicated to women artists who lived and worked in the Eternal City between the 16th and 19th centuries concluded...

On 16 April, the young Palestinian photojournalist was killed by Israeli airstrikes along with her family in Gaza City. Until then, she had tirelessly denounced the atrocities of war, channelling...

Philosopher, politician, teacher, and writer, Laura Cima is the leading figure of the ecofeminist movement in Italy. For fifty years, she has been fighting for women’s rights and the preservation...

In Bologna, the communication agency Comunicattive is shaking up the norms of visual representation. With its project Fotonica, it has created an image bank to showcase the diversity of bodies...

In Italy, racist incidents against female champions of African origin representing the country in national and international competitions are increasingly frequent. With the Paris Olympics coming up, it is as...

Websites, forums, and online communities that incite gender-based violence by disseminating misogynistic and sexist content have been on the rise.