Family and Equal Opportunities
Minister Elena Bonetti said Thursday her department would invest
one million euros in micro-credits "for the victims of
(domestic) violence, to rebuild a life for themselves after
emerging from processes of violence, to give them hope and
invest in them".
She said "economic violence is an act of male coercion
towards women and there are many actions to be used.
"That's why we're going to trial this microcredit of
freedom".
Bonetti was talking at the presentation of a programme called
#youcanbefree.
Italy has been suffering an epidemic of femicide, or
murderous violence against women.
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