Milan, 20 January (LaPresse) – "The final figures for the whole of 2025, released by the Home Office, confirm the decrease in the number of women killed that was recorded in the first few months of last year. Every woman killed is a tragedy that transcends any statistics, as we are seeing even now, but we must also take the decrease in numbers as an encouraging sign that we are working in the right direction." This was stated by Eugenia Roccella, Minister for Family, Birth Rate and Equal Opportunities. “The government,” she continued, 'has made the fight against violence against women one of its top priorities from day one, and the work carried out has covered all the areas defined by the Istanbul Convention, the famous “four Ps” – prevention, protection, punishment and integrated policies – developed through new innovative and incisive laws, regulatory, educational and cultural prevention, protection of victims enhanced by increased resources and tools, including economic ones, and more timely and effective repression through regulations that aim not only to ensure justice but also to create the conditions for the cycle of violence to be broken before irreparable damage is done." “As we have always said, and as is obvious,” adds Roccella, “every woman killed is one woman too many, and we will not stop until this scourge is eradicated. But it is important to recognise the signs of action that is bearing its first fruits, and which should be an encouragement to everyone, since we have always sought consensus and unanimity on this issue”. Every woman killed calls us to account, but every woman in a situation of risk whose life has been saved, she concludes, is news that is worth our daily commitment and that must spur us on to work with even greater determination.
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