Italy’s Pride calendar is heating up as we near International Pride Day, June 28th, with the largest Pride parade in the country happening this Saturday in Rome.
With Italian Mother’s Day around the corner, a new report looks at where in the country mothers face the greatest challenges and where they’re most likely to thrive.
Italy hosts the world's top paralympic athletes this month, but just getting across the street in Rome can feel like an Olympian task for wheelchair users.
International Women's Day is this Sunday, March 8th – here are the ways the occasion is being commemorated in Italy, from a general strike to free museum visits.
Children born to foreign parents in Italy must wait until they are 18 to apply for citizenship, and then have just one year to do so or face a years-long wait - a process some have described as a 'psychological violence'.
As the world marks International Women’s Day, here are some of the ups and downs of living in Italy as a woman. Share your own experiences in the comments section below.
Judges in Italy on Tuesday ruled that children can have two mothers listed on their birth certificates – a decision hailed as a victory by rights campaigners in Catholic-majority Italy.
Members of the EU parliament on Thursday demanded that Italy's government "rescind its decision" after the country's interior ministry ordered Milan to stop registering the children of same-sex families.
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Milan on Saturday in protest against a new government directive stopping local authorities from registering the births of same-sex couples' children.
Milan's city hall has stopped issuing birth certificates to children of gay couples following a directive from Italy's far-right government, local media reported on Monday, in a move rights groups called "painful and unjust".
A womens' day flyer printed by Italy’s League has been slammed as “backwards” for claiming the "natural role of women” is “the promotion and support of life and the family.”
When the Italian government sat down with heads of industry to discuss the budget this week, there was something noticeably missing from the picture: women.
Women who want equal opportunities to work, fair pay, political representation, a higher education and access to health care won’t find it in Italy, global statistics show.
The Women's Marches on Saturday are thought to have brought up to four million people together from across the globe to demonstrate for civil rights. One of the organizers of the Milan event, Rachael Martin, explains why women marched - and need to keep marching - in Italy.
This weekend, hundreds of protesters marched in Rome, one of the many global events in solidarity with the Women's March on Washington. Here's what they had to say.
Sara Di Pietrantonio was just 21 years old. In what was described by a Rome police chief as the worst crime he'd seen in his 25 years in the role, the student suffered a torturous death at the hands of her ex-boyfriend.
The brutal murder of Sara Di Pietrantonio by her ex-boyfriend has thrown the issue of femicide into the spotlight again, and Thursday saw both marches and individual displays of solidarity across the country.
Judging from her predecessors, Josefa Idem is not a typical Italian minister for equal opportunities. Not only has she never posed topless, but she’s also an Olympic gold medallist. This week, she became the first Italian minister to announce she’d be joining a Gay Pride march.
