International protection of human dignity through criminal law: strengthening Italy's implementation record (DignITA).

DignITA aims at assessing and strengthening Italy’s record in implementing international obligations to criminalize conduct prejudicial to human dignity. It will elaborate and advocate a coherent approach to the protection of human dignity through criminal law at the international and the domestic level, with a strong focus on dissemination activities that will maximise its social impact. This will imply: 1) appraising Italy’s implementing practices in terms of both transposition and effective application; 2) developing and disseminating reform proposals, interpretive solutions and operative guidelines, duly considering the effects that international obligations display at the domestic level, the specificities of EU Law (which often implements and develops relevant international standards) and the applicable constitutional ‘limits’ and ‘counter-limits’.