Number against violence against men. The Neapolitan lawyer promoting: “Sorry for the furious and discriminatory controversy regarding equal rights”
Pisani to senator dem Valente: "Attacks and threats of censorship are not examples of democracy on the part of anti-violence centers against women"
NAPLES – “Sorry for the incorrect interpretation of the 1523 project by the Honorable Valente, the law is the same for everyone and moreover it is enough to read art 1 of the Constitution, violence does not it can and must not be the prerogative of just one party. It is not understood that violence can be everywhere then it will never be defeated and human beings will always be in danger and without equal protection of democracy on the part of anti-violence centers against women, who must also have other interests! It is possible that the protection of rights could be their exclusive prerogative…” This is the incipit of the request for reply addressed to Dire by the Neapolitan lawyer Angelo Pisani after the observations of the dem senator Valeria Valente who, in relation to posters put up in Naples to promote the number 1523 dedicated to violence suffered by males, he had declared: “It is an attack not only on women, but also on anti-violence centers: in fact in the body of this advertisement a telephone number is used as a decoy that refers and it also contrasts in a symbolic way with 1522, the national number of the ministry to support women victims of violence and give them contact details of the anti-violence centers present in all situations”.
THE POSTERS IN NAPLES AND THE APPEAL TO MANFREDI
Following the appearance of the posters in some points of the Campania capital, thirty associations that deal with male gender violence against women and over 250 women signed an appeal addressed to the mayor Gaetano Manfredi which reads: “they strike negatively the recent communication campaigns which in a misleading way tend to frustrate the efforts made so far and those still to be made”.
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“The initiative of 1523 – explains Pisani – is in addition to the 1522 initiative of women, it was born in response to the many requests for psychological and physical abuse and violence received by the studies of lawyers by men who are stalked, exploited, mistreated or at risk of their lives, cases which unfortunately often occur even in the news but which do not guarantee the same protection and media coverage”. “1523 – the lawyer underlines again in his reply – is an anti-violence project SAVE ALL and without discrimination or political colors for the protection of both men and obviously women, as well as children and the elderly. Unlike 1522, which in fact collects and only manages reports of violence against women who increasingly have the right to every type of protection as all human beings should have, in the new space of 1523, created together with a group of female lawyers, anyone who is suffering violence can contact, without sex discrimination“.
“THE 1523 SERVICE IS ADDED TO THE INSTITUTIONAL ONE”
For Pisani, a controversy “so furious and discriminatory of the equal rights of men as well as young people and children” therefore appears “instrumental”. “Our service – he underlines – adds to the institutional one, from which it obviously takes nothing away, indeed the competition always against every type of violence helps to combat evil and every illicit act. We are the first to fight against every form of abuse, starting from the mistreatment of women which can reach the point of feminicide, but also against serious psychological violence and discrimination of all kinds”. “We – Pisani points out – do not ask for any funding. We are lawyers, we have a team of psychologists and social workers with us. We try to do our part in serving of a society that is becoming increasingly violent”.
“PROTECT WOMEN, MEN AND EVERY HUMAN BEING WITHOUT DISTINCTIONS”
“The appeal addressed to Mayor Manfredi by the women’s anti-violence centers of Campania for a feminist Democratic Party, as well as an example of violence and discrimination, is inappropriate and specious insofar as the objective that 1523 wants to pursue it is consistent with the work that anti-violence centers must always carry out: protecting women and also men, all human beings without distinctions and interests”. These are the words of the lawyers of 1523 Angela Russo and Annalisa Marcone who hope that “all distinctions and discrimination in the fight against violence while respecting equal rights” will be erased.
“FOR US VIOLENCE HAS NO SEX. IT IS ALWAYS A CRIME”
“With the 1523 project – the lawyer Antonella Esposito also replies – a different paradigm is proposed compared to the one followed up to now. We cannot look only at women, discriminating and generalizing about everyone else, but it is necessary to look at the interpersonal relationship, hence the question that appears on the poster: “But does violence always have the same sex?” For us, violence has no sex and is always a crime violence against women and the reported cases of violence also increase, it will mean that it is necessary to address this issue in a different way. It is surprising that it is precisely the feminists, to whom this issue is so dear, who outright reject recipes that are different from those used up until now. now for the protection of women and the well-being of all. Blocking change and ignoring the state of current legal policies that increasingly put people at the center distances us from what should be – Esposito comments – the common objective”.< /p>