Stop violence against women, the dedicated day
November 25 is a date to remember, chosen in 1999 to represent the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women .
A day wanted by the General Assembly of the United Nations, but chosen in its time by a group of women activists, gathered in the Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Meeting, held in Bogotà in 1981.
This date was chosen in memory of the brutal assassination in 1960 of the three Mirabal sisters, considered an example of revolutionary women for their efforts to counter the regime of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo (1930-1961), the dictator who kept the Dominican Republic in backwardness and chaos for over 30 years.
The United Nations General Assembly has designated and reinstated this anniversary by inviting governments, international organizations and NGOs to organize activities aimed at raising public awareness of women.
Italy, what is being done for the Day for the elimination of violence against women
In Italy for some years the associations, the anti-violence centers and the women's houses have started to get busy and celebrate this day.
Institutions such as Amnesty International and Zeroviolenza celebrate this day through political and cultural initiatives, while at the same time carrying out a work of civil information that focuses on the value of the identity of the person, interpersonal relationships with respect for otherness and differences.
These projects and commitments also include awareness-raising aimed at the world of children, so that they can no longer produce discrimination between boys and girls, creating instead calm and constructive relationships for both.
On 26 November 2016, the women's movement organized around Nonunadimeno fell on the streets of Rome in an impressive demonstration against violence against women with the presence of 200, 000 women.
This year, still under the same leadership, the National demonstration against violence against women starts from Piazza della Repubblica at 2.00 pm on Saturday 25 November with the aim of fighting for a structural change, starting from school, from work, from health, from the administration of justice and the media, with respect, freedom and self-determination.
Since 2006, the " House of women not to be subjected to violence" in Bologna annually promotes the Illustrated Violence Festival, the only festival on the Italian scene entirely dedicated to the World Day against violence against women.
And also in Milan there are many initiatives: just to name a few, taking Repubblica.it from the 24th to 26th Palazzo Pirelli will be illuminated with the slogan of the campaign " You are not alone "; on November 25 Palazzo Marino turns orange for the #Orangetheworld initiative promoted by Un Women Italia.
And more: for all the day of Saturday on all the Atm buses of the line 94 a seat will be symbolically reserved for women victims of violence, with the sticker of the "Occupied place" campaign and the camper of the project's state police " Blu box "will be in piazza Città di Lombardia.
Useful links:
The map of anti-violence centers in Italy
The Pink Phone website
