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Femicide and gender-based violence in the Italian Parliament: how often it was debated

Chamber of Deputies, 1948-2022 · based on 2,454,718 parliamentary interventions

The theme of femicide and gender-based violence appears in 1,185 interventions delivered in the Italian Chamber of Deputies between 1948 and 2022. The year it was discussed most is 2013, with 275 interventions.

This page summarises the main figures. The full search, with the complete text of every intervention and downloadable results, is available in the corpus search engine.

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Trend over time

1948: 1 interventions1949: 0 interventions1950: 1 interventions1951: 0 interventions1952: 1 interventions1953: 0 interventions1954: 0 interventions1955: 0 interventions1956: 0 interventions1957: 0 interventions1958: 0 interventions1959: 1 interventions1960: 0 interventions1961: 1 interventions1962: 0 interventions1963: 0 interventions1964: 0 interventions1965: 0 interventions1966: 0 interventions1967: 0 interventions1968: 0 interventions1969: 3 interventions1970: 2 interventions1971: 0 interventions1972: 0 interventions1973: 0 interventions1974: 0 interventions1975: 0 interventions1976: 0 interventions1977: 0 interventions1978: 0 interventions1979: 0 interventions1980: 0 interventions1981: 0 interventions1982: 0 interventions1983: 0 interventions1984: 1 interventions1985: 0 interventions1986: 1 interventions1987: 0 interventions1988: 4 interventions1989: 6 interventions1990: 0 interventions1991: 2 interventions1992: 1 interventions1993: 1 interventions1994: 0 interventions1995: 3 interventions1996: 1 interventions1997: 0 interventions1998: 0 interventions1999: 1 interventions2000: 2 interventions2001: 7 interventions2002: 1 interventions2003: 4 interventions2004: 5 interventions2005: 2 interventions2006: 7 interventions2007: 35 interventions2008: 25 interventions2009: 46 interventions2010: 23 interventions2011: 20 interventions2012: 24 interventions2013: 275 interventions2014: 131 interventions2015: 23 interventions2016: 33 interventions2017: 63 interventions2018: 70 interventions2019: 144 interventions2020: 78 interventions2021: 80 interventions2022: 56 interventions19501960197019801990200020102020
Interventions per year mentioning femicide and gender-based violence in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, 1948-2022.

Who spoke about it most

Member of ParliamentGroup Interventions
NICOLA MOLTENILega Nord20
PIA LOCATELLIPartito Democratico19
MARIA EDERA SPADONIMovimento 5 Stelle19
PAOLA BINETTIPartito Democratico18
STEFANIA ASCARIMovimento 5 Stelle17
LUCIA ANNIBALIPartito Democratico17
LAURA BOLDRINICentrosinistra17
CAROLINA LUSSANACasa delle Libertà12
ROBERTA AGOSTINIPartito Democratico10
ALFONSO BONAFEDEMovimento 5 Stelle10

The most active parliamentary groups on this issue

Parliamentary groupInterventions
Partito Democratico292
Movimento 5 Stelle189
Forza Italia – Il Popolo della Libertà132
Lega Nord64
Sinistra Ecologia Libertà46
Fratelli d'Italia45
Centrosinistra39
Scelta Civica37
Lega36
Others32

How these figures were obtained

The figures come from a full-text search over the entire corpus of verbatim reports of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1948 to 2022, queried with femminicidio OR femminicidi OR "violenza sulle donne" OR "violenza contro le donne" OR "violenza di genere" OR uxoricidio. Each intervention is counted once even if the theme occurs several times within it. The source of the texts is the ItaParlCorpus dataset by Joshua Cova (Harvard Dataverse), which collects 2,454,718 interventions and more than 470 million words. Texts from the earliest legislatures come from OCR scans and may contain recognition errors.

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