"Public communication for addressing violence against women before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. A comparative analysis of the national communication campaigns of the Italian and Spanish Governments"

The public debate on violence against women under the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted that the risk for women to be victims of domestic violence has been made more severe by the conditions of home isolation with violent partners which national governments have imposed to reduce the spread of the virus. In order to provide additional support to current as well as prospective victims of domestic violence under the pandemic, the national Governments of Italy and Spain have set specific anti-violence measures and launched public communication campaigns to spread information about them. From these premises, the oral presentation aimed to explore the contribution provided by these campaigns in the two Countries to prevent and combat the “double emergency” of male violence against women under the Covid-19 pandemic. The oral presentation focused on the objectives, method and results of a comparative content analysis of the public campaigns launched by the national Governments of Italy and Spain before and during the Covid-19 pandemic.