Violence against women, the initiatives in the Republic
A day full of meetings and initiativesto shout to the world that violence against women is one plague to fight 365 days per year. “There is no significant reduction either in San Marino or in Italy”- writes UDS – recalling the 71 women killed this year in the family-affective sphere. So what to do? Condemning violence is important, but it is not enough. We need to change – continues the San Marino Women’s Union – the macho and patriarchal culture.
Battle that is fought together, without distinction of sex. With the’Border Association asks one public reflection between men and women, politics, information, education and work, towards a new culture of relationships.
For the Pdc it is the duty of a true democracy to continue to keep attention high, to overcome mental and social resistance, to denounce, to raise awareness, to inform and above all to set a good example. The University of San Marino is at the forefrontwho yesterday turned the spotlight on gender-based violence in different cultures, with a seminary which ended with the presentation of the book “Dangerous human relations”.
Today, however, the round table on the theme “the body and the hairstyle in contemporary art”. Also present Masha Salimi, an Iranian student who brings us back to women’s battles for rights and freedoms in the Islamic republic, under the veil of revolt. “In the history of Iran, when women did not have enough power and say to defend themselves – she says – they cut their hair.”
Then – edited by the San Marino National Fair Play Committee – Iinauguration in the City of the red bench, the third after the Covid break, a symbol of the place occupied by a woman torn from her life by violence. While the second and third towers are illuminated in orange, in support of the international campaign Orange the world.