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Progress of gender equality in Italy
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Gender statistics on Italy
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Translations of EIGE's work in Italian
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Law n°7/2006 introduces the following two articles in the Criminal Code: 583 bis (Female Genital Mutilation Practices, and 583 ter (Ancillary Penalties). Art....
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Prohibiting any actions on one's own body when causing a permanent damage to physical integrity or when violating Law, public order or decency.
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The Decree establishes the National Commission, charged for 2 years with the task of implementing actions as far as art. 3 and 4 of La n° 7/2006....
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FGM prevention and treatment have in several cases been integrated in Regional Health Care initiatives. Region Basilicata included in its Annual Plan on Immigration 2009 (DGR n....
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To the Ministry for Equal Opportunities: the enquiry is about what type of initiatives are going to be taken in order to monitoring FGM prevalence and increase penalties for those who committed such c...
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The structure of the Law gives emphasis to prevention, support services to victims of FGM and information and training activities (it was changed after the Parliamentary debate in order to avoid risks...
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Commits the Government to take all necessary steps so that women in situations of imminent danger who wish to subtract themselves or their younger daughters to the practice of genital mutilation, can ...
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Inquiry to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs on what Italy is doing to help eradicating FGM through international development cooperation programmes....
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The Inquiry to the Ministry of Equal Opportunities is about how the new Government intends to implement Law 7/2006 and complains about the fact that the National Commission on the Prevention of FGM d...
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Proceedings of the final session for the approval of Law n°7/2006 (known as Consolo Law from the name of the MP (Alleanza Nazionale) who presented one of the draft-proposals) allow to reconstruct the ...
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The Chamber considered that the practice of female genital mutilation is unfortunately still widespread in some countries that allow or tolerate it, found that it is a question of civilization to prov...
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Regional Commission for Bioethics by the Tuscany Region considers as legitimate the proposal by Omar Abdulcadir from the Hospital Careggi (Florence) of allowing Public hospitals to practice a symboli...