BERGAMO (ITALPRESS) – New ideas from an “open source” against gender violence come from the University of Bergamo. It was in fact prepared by Professor Anna Lorenzetti, Ordinary of Constitutional Law of the University and professor of the course dedicated to gender violence, the document “Language and gender violence in the jurisdiction: an open site”, recently published by the Permanent Observatory on the effectiveness of norms on gender and domestic violence of the Ministry of Justice, coordinated by Dr. Maria Rosaria Covelli. Already a reference point in the formation of the judiciary, the document was born from the working group on the language coordinated within the Observatory by Lorenzetti himself, called to be part of the then Minister of Justice Marta Cartabia. The goal is clear: to encourage a conscious reflection on the importance of words in the drafting of pronunciations and to raise the level of sensitivity on the relationship between gender violence and judicial narrative. An even more urgent orientation in the light of the convictions addressed to Italy by the European Court of Human Rights and the Cedaw Committee, including the last, a few weeks ago, in the case of Scuderoni.
“It is important to take into account how it is, all and all, often involuntary carriers of a sexist use of the language that influences the representation of reality – explains Anna Lorenzetti. The language not only defines, but prescribes the imaginary, even symbolic, on which the right is built. Thus, jurisprudential law can risk absorbing conditioning that gives space to stereotypes and prejudices, affecting the victim.”.
The document, built with an operational cut and intended primarily for judiciary but accessible to all and all, highlights how judicial narrative can contribute to secondary victimization through the use of expressions rooted in prejudice and stereotype. Without entering into the content of decisions – a field not within the competences of the Observatory – the work develops a path of awareness about the implicit linguistics that affect the lives of victims in judicial proceedings. Characterized by an immediate and dynamic graphic look, edited by Flavia Pellegrinelli, the document collects the ideas from the EDU Court and the Cedaw Committee and will remain, as indicated by the subtitle, “an open yard”, designed to update over time, also on the new themes of online violence and cyberviolence, recalled by the recent European Directive 1384/2024.
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