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.
Search the corpus for femicide and gender-based violenceAll the statistics
| Member of Parliament | Group | Interventions |
|---|---|---|
| NICOLA MOLTENI | Lega Nord | 20 |
| PIA LOCATELLI | Partito Democratico | 19 |
| MARIA EDERA SPADONI | Movimento 5 Stelle | 19 |
| PAOLA BINETTI | Partito Democratico | 18 |
| STEFANIA ASCARI | Movimento 5 Stelle | 17 |
| LUCIA ANNIBALI | Partito Democratico | 17 |
| LAURA BOLDRINI | Centrosinistra | 17 |
| CAROLINA LUSSANA | Casa delle Libertà | 12 |
| ROBERTA AGOSTINI | Partito Democratico | 10 |
| ALFONSO BONAFEDE | Movimento 5 Stelle | 10 |
| Parliamentary group | Interventions |
|---|---|
| Partito Democratico | 292 |
| Movimento 5 Stelle | 189 |
| Forza Italia – Il Popolo della Libertà | 132 |
| Lega Nord | 64 |
| Sinistra Ecologia Libertà | 46 |
| Fratelli d'Italia | 45 |
| Centrosinistra | 39 |
| Scelta Civica | 37 |
| Lega | 36 |
| Others | 32 |
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.