27.05.2025 Istanbul Convention Conference

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On Tuesday, May 27, 2025 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., the Istanbul Convention Conference titled “Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence: the Council of Europe's Istanbul Convention and its Impact in the EU and Italian Systems” was held at the Santa Margherita-Emanuele Severino Auditorium of Ca' Foscari University Venice, Dorsoduro 3689, Venice. The event was organized in collaboration between the Department of Economics of Ca' Foscari University, the Unico di Garanzia Committee of Ca' Foscari University of Venice, the SIDI Interest Group, the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Verona, Ocean, Europe Direct Venezia Veneto of the City of Venice, and the Council of Europe Venice Office.

Participation was free after registering at this form.

On this occasion was presented the volume  Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence. A Commentary on the Istanbul Convention by Sara de Vido e Micaela Frulli della casa editrice Edward Elgar Publishing.

• PROGRAM: 

Institutional greetings

Giacomo Pasini, Department of Economics Director
Claudia Irti, Doctorate in Market and Person Law
Adalberto Perulli, CUG, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Ermelinda Damiano, City Council President, City of Venice
Tommaso Bortoluzzi, President of the Bar Association, Venice
Francesca Vianello, Europe Direct Venezia Veneto, Comune di Venezia
Video On. Martina Semenzato,  Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on Femicide

Moderator
Roberto Senigaglia, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Francesco Menditto, Public Prosecutor's Office

Presentation of the Commentary
Sara De Vido, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Micaela Frulli, University of Florence

The impact of the Convention in European Union law
Maria Mollica, DG JUST, European Commision
Elisabetta Bergamini, University of Udine

The impact of the Convention in domestic law
Alessandra Cordiano, University of Verona
Claudia Irti, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

The Istanbul Convention in the daily practice of lawyers and lawyers and services
Elena Biaggioni, Lawyer, D.i.RE
Patrizia Marcuzzo, Anti-Violence Center of the Comune di Venezia

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