A year of pandemic: women’s rights are run-over by Covid
True, Covid has destroyed our lives, but not in a fair way. Undoubtedly, the pandemic has increased the already existing inequalities, widening the gap between rich and poor. But it is also putting at...
Submission and then revenge: the culture of rape in the cinema
A body on which violence has often been unleashed, a body humiliated, mocked, beaten, ghettoized, violated. This is the woman’s body, a body made of flesh and bone that has often been put in the...
The soft-porn narrative of violence against underage girls
The relationship between minors and the mass media is a broad topic and it would take a specific panel discussion to address it properly. Right now, we will just take a look at some...
Safe from fear: the correct information of gender-based violence as a form of prevention
In "Transforming a Rape Culture”, Patricia Donat and John D'Emilio define the rape culture as "a complex of beliefs that encourages male sexual aggressions and support violence against women", a culture that "condones the...
In Europe feminisms fight the right, but the women leaders are more at the...
There is an attack from the right wing in this very moment that has as target women and civil rights, in a global plan aiming to cancel the rule of law. What’s happening in...
Cedaw: Italian women send the Cahiers de doléances against their government to the United...
You can see below the "List of issues prior to report" (LOIPR) drawn up by the civil society of women in Italy (NGOs, Networks, Associations, etc.) and sent to the Cedaw Committee for the...
From the comfort women in Cina to Burma: the War rape in Asia
Point 9.2 of the Charter of the Asian Human Rights adopted in 1998 in the Kwangju conference in South Korea from more than 200 NGOs and human rights activists, says: "The increasing militarization of...
Moria, the Greek refugee camp where children prefers to die
"Welcome to prison" is the writing on the wall that surrounds Moria, the refugee camp in the island of Lesbo, Greece, where over 9,000 people live in a space of 3,100, and where 10...
Africa, where war rape on women continue and is never ended
It was 1976, and Susan Brownmiller, author of one of the first posters concerning gender violence (Against our will. Men, women and sexual violence), wrote: "The defense of women has been, from the down...
Women refugees and violence: why the dial with Libya is full of blood
It daily appears on the newspapers’ pages and it's often used as mere political propaganda without addressing the real cause or a realistic plan of action for a phenomenon that is growing, caused by...
