Overview
- Appearing before Italy’s parliamentary commission on femicide, Cecchettin pressed lawmakers to prioritize relationship and consent education in schools.
- The father founded the Giulia Cecchettin Foundation to convert personal loss into prevention work focused on changing harmful norms.
- He rejected calls for tougher penalties, arguing that criminal justice intervenes after harm and that prevention must come first.
- He defined affective education as teaching self-knowledge, emotional management, boundaries, consent, and respect, stressing it is a protection rather than an ideology.
- Warning that silence in classrooms leaves youths to social media and toxic role models, he urged institutions to equip students to recognize violence early.