Intimate partner violence (IPV)-defined as physical, psychological, sexual, and/or economic violence typically experienced by women at home and perpetrated by their partners or expartners-is a pervasive form of violence that destroys women's feelings of love, trust, and self-esteem, with important negative consequences on physical and psychological health. Many reports from several countries have underlined a remarkable increase in the cases of IPV during the COVID-19 emergency. In this opinion article, we discussed the hypothesis that such an increase may be related to the restrictive measures enacted to contain the pandemic, including women's forced cohabitation with the abusive partner, as well as the exacerbation of partners' pre-existing psychological disorders during the lockdown. In addition, we retrospectively analyzed some data derived from our practice in a public Italian referral center for sexual and domestic violence (Service for Sexual and Domestic Violence [SVSeD]). These data interestingly revealed an opposite trend, that is, a decrease in the number of women who sought assistance since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak. Such a reduction should be interpreted as a negative consequence of the pandemic-related restrictive measures. Although necessary, these measures reduced women's possibilities of seeking help from antiviolence centers and/or emergency services. Owing to the COVID-19 outbreak, there is an urgent need for developing and implementing alternative treatment options for IPV victims (such as online and phone counseling and telemedicine), as well as training programs for health care professionals, especially those employed in emergency departments, to facilitate early detection of IPV.
Students have the option of attending the University of Calabria (UNICAL), or the University of Naples Parthenope for six months starting in September of their fourth year. Students studying at our partner university will take an Italian Language Immersion course, usually starting around the third week of September. IEP students are also required to take one engineering course of their choice.
FILE - Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni talks to Monsignor Leonardo Sapienza, left, as she arrives with her partner Andrea Giambruno, second from left, at The Vatican, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023 for an audience with Pope Francis. Premier Giorgia Meloni announced Friday, Oct. 20, 2023, she was separating from her partner and the father of her young daughter after nearly a decade together. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)
The two ministers signed an action plan for the implementation of a multidimensional strategic partnership that sets for the next few years four priorities for Moroccan-Italian relations: strengthening political dialogue on regional issues in Africa, the Middle East and the Mediterranean, consolidating economic and cultural cooperation, reinforcing security coordination, and creating a consultation mechanism on immigration and consular affairs.
KSU has partnered with the Comune di Montepulciano (City Administrators of Montepulciano), Il Sasso Italian Language School, Terre Toscane, and many others since the first program to Montepulciano in 1999. In collaboration with the Comune di Montepulciano and Consorzio del Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, KSU helped renovate the town's Fortezza Medievale in return for a 25-year lease of extensive classroom space as well as a scholar/director apartment. With the Fortezza being home base for KSU, we are able to have a successful educational site in Italy for our KSU community.
Over the many years of programming in Montepulciano, the university has also made relationships with many businesses, organizations, and people who live and work in Montepulciano. These relationships have helped grow and enhance our academic programming for students and faculty.
The Comune di Montepulciano (City Administrators of Montepulciano) has been a partner and supporter of KSU Italy from the beginning even before the Fortezza renovations began. In February 2013, Kennesaw State signed an agreement with the Comune of Montepulciano, under the leadership of Mayor Michele Angiolini, to contribute to the cost of renovating the town's Fortezza Medievale in return for a 25-year lease of extensive classroom space as well as a scholar/director apartment.
Oftentimes the Comune and KSU Italy will partner to help host various groups and events throughout the year in Montepulciano. This not only helps our students, faculty and staff, but also the entire community.
The agreement provides the framework for an ensemble of collaborations on the theme of entrepreneurship and management. On one side, CERN will become a technological and operational partner for SAFM projects, and on the other, SAFM will assist CERN in creating new relationships with industry partners, incubators and potential investors. The collaboration will involve several CERN initiatives, including the Knowledge Transfer group, IdeaSquare and the CERN & Society Foundation.
The dual degree is the maturation of a 12-year partnership between UGA, the University of Padova and four other European and U.S. universities. Together, these schools formed the TransAtlantic Precision Agriculture Consortium in 2004. To date, 45 undergraduate students and eight graduate students have participated in the program.
According to the definition of the American Psychological Association and Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family (1996), IPV, is the physical, sexual, psychological, economical or stalking abuse, both concrete and menaced, perpetuated by current or ex-partners. In the European Union Member States the 22% of women have suffered from physical and/or sexual violence by partners since the age of 15, with a prevalence across countries ranging from 13 to 32% (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2014). In Italy, according to a national survey by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT, 2015), two million eight hundred thousand women between 16 and 70 years have experienced at least one episode of sexual or physical violence by partner or ex-partner. Indeed current or ex-partners commit the most serious violence and are involved in 62.7% of rapes. IPV can include sexual assault: according of World Health Organization, Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention (2002) one in four women experiences sexual violence by her intimate partner. On the other hand, sexual harassment, such as sex-related verbal or physical behavior that is annoying or disrespectful to the person who suffers it Rubinstein (1987) and Piotrkowski and Brannen (2002) is perpetrated more frequently in the work environment by colleagues or employers. IPV and sexual harassment have many similarities: they are both mainly crimes against women by known perpetrators, and occur in places perceived as safe by victims, like the home or the workplace (Lawson, 2012).
Although it cannot be viewed as a unidirectional phenomenon, IPV concerns a higher percentage of violence of the man against the woman (World Health Organization, 2013). Furthermore, according to World Health Organization (2013) even if IPV can occur against men, men injured by their partners had high rates of IPV perpetration themselves and the violence carried out by women may often present itself as self-defense.
Within the semantic area related to the fear, fear was considered as a state of alarm elicited by the avoidance of the danger (Diel, 1956; Hagenaars et al., 2014). Within the semantic area of the terror, this affect was framed as a paralyzing state that hinders an active process of reaction to danger (Clit, 2002; Nunziante Cesàro and Troisi, 2016). The semantic area of the shame defines it as a strong exposure to the other that disarmed the individual and makes him animated by a sense of failure and passivity (Tisseron, 1992; Lewis, 1995; Pandolfi, 2002; Ciccone and Ferrant, 2015). The semantic area of the guilt focused on its defensive dimension aimed at the restoration of the relationship with the partner, assuming responsibility for the violence suffered and taking an active position in the relationship (Tisseron, 1992; Pandolfi, 2002; Ciccone and Ferrant, 2015).
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Friday she had separated from her television journalist partner Andrea Giambruno, who has drawn criticism in recent weeks for sexist comments made on and off air.
What does it mean when you are asked: "Where are you from?" This often innocuous question provides information to identify the historical background of a person but, more often than not, also pigeon-holes migrants based on biases and stereotypes. The project, Fondazione Imago Mundi, a project founded by Italian billionaire Luciano Benetton, has partnered with the Aga Khan Museum to launch a new project changing the narrative of identity for migrants. The partnership has kicked off with an exhibition in Italy called "Don't Ask Me Where I'm From."
It is not surprising to see this partnership between the Aga Khan Foundation and Fondazione Imago Mundi. Chairman Benetton, is also the cofounder of the namesake clothing retailer Benetton, a company that shifted the paradigm of advertising by challenging social norms using provocative and often uncomfortable images.
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