Variety of femicides in Italy up by greater than 15 per cent over final 12 months.

125 girls have been killed in Italy over the previous 12 months, between 1 August 2021 and 31 July 2022, in keeping with knowledge launched by the Italian inside ministry on Monday.

The determine represents a rise of 15.7 per cent in comparison with the earlier 12-month interval, when 108 girls have been killed, and is the equal of 1 lady murdered each three days.

The annual report discovered that of the 125 femicides over the previous 12 months, 108 murders have been dedicated in a family-relationship context, with 68 girls killed by their accomplice or ex-partner.

There was an general enhance of murders in Italy during the last 12 months – 319, up from 276 within the earlier 12 months – with femicides accounting for 39.2 per cent of this determine.

Reviews of stalking decreased throughout the previous 12 months – 15,817 in comparison with 18,653 within the earlier interval – nonetheless the variety of police cautions rose – 3,100 towards 2,565 – of which greater than half associated to home violence.

Ladies affected by gender-based violence in Italy can search assist from the multi-lingual girls’s helpline Telefona Rosa, which responded to three,801 requests for assist in 2021.