Senators of the Italian Republic Cecilia D'Elia and Antonio Misiani - on a visit to the United States of the World headquarters - signed the "Kimiyya" poster for women's rights that the United States of the World with the Fondazione Mediterraneo has been promoting around the world since 2017.
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25 November 2023
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) -
Category: Kimiyya (EN)
The "UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD" with its autonomous sections "MEDITERRANEAN FOUNDATION" and "KIMIYYA" celebrate in various countries, as they do every year on 25 November, the "International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women" formalised by the United Nations in 1999.
"The date of 25 November," emphasises Secretary-General Michele Capasso, "was chosen to commemorate the life, activism and above all the courage of three sisters: Patria, Maria Teresa and Minerva Mirabal, also nicknamed 'mariposas', or butterflies, who fought for the freedom of their country: the Dominican Republic, which during the 1940s and 1950s was in the grip of General Rafael Trujilo's dictatorship. The Mirabal sisters decided to engage in political activism by denouncing the horrors and crimes of the dictatorship. But on 25 November 1960, the three 'mariposas' sisters were tortured and murdered by Trujillo's assassins. The outrage at their deaths raised a wave of horror both at home and abroad, drawing international attention to the Dominican regime and the 'machismo' culture that did not tolerate women occupying public and political space. It is in the memory of Patria, Maria Teresa and Minerva that every 25 November marks the beginning of a 16-day period dedicated to activism against gender-based violence, which ends on 10 December with International Human Rights Day”.
In this year, ravaged by wars and extreme events, the 'UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD' calls on everyone to 'pull together' to ensure respect for women's human dignity and, above all, to prevent the feminicides that infest all societies.
Mario Morra, owner of the historic "Bagno Elena", accompanied by Alessia and Claudio Ciccone, visited the Museum of Peace MAMT and the United States of the World headquarters.
Silvia Levenson - an internationally renowned glass artist - visited the Museum with a view to the creation of a section dedicated to glass art, in which she promised to participate with one of her significant works.
The Honourable Gianfranco Rotondi - member of the Culture Commission of the Chamber of Deputies - signed the "Kimiyya Poster" in defence of Women's rights in the world and, at this time, for Ukrainian women victims of an unjust and fratricidal war.