INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Naples, Rome, Marrakech, Tokyo, New York | 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.

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MARIO MORRA WITH ALESSIA AND CLAUDIO CICCONE VISITING THE MUSEUM OF PEACE MAMT

Naples | 02 August 2023
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Kimiyya (EN)

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.
Accompanied by President Michele Capasso, the guests visited the main emotional paths, in particular the one dedicated to Pino Daniele.
On this occasion Alessia Ciccone, artist and musician, signed the "Kimiyya" Manifesto in defence of women's rights.

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SILVIA LEVENSON VISITS THE PEACE MUSEUM AND SIGNS THE KIMIYYA POSTER

Naples | 27 February 2023
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Kimiyya (EN)

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.
On this occasion, she signed the "Kimiyya poster" for the defence of women.
In President Capasso's interview, she stated:
"I was born in Buenos Aires in 1957. I was part of a generation that fought to change a society that seemed terribly unjust. In 1976, when the military took power, I was nineteen years old and in August of that year my daughter Natalia was born. She was the same age as those young people whose biological identity was stolen by the military. With unprecedented cruelty, pregnant prisoners were murdered only after giving birth, while the babies were illegally given for adoption. What happened between 1976 and 1983 changed my life and influenced my artistic work. An important part of my work is to reveal or make visible what is normally hidden or cannot be seen, and I use glass to represent this metaphor. We have always used glass to preserve food and drink, I use glass to preserve the memory of people and objects for future generations."

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GIANFRANCO ROTONDI SIGNS THE KIMIYYA POSTER

Naples | 05 March 2022
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Kimiyya (EN)

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.

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THE FOUNDATION CELEBRATES IN SEVERAL CITIES THE "INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN"

Naples | 25 November 2021
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Kimiyya (EN)

The Fondazione Mediterraneo - together with the Anna Lindh Italia Federation, the Kimiyya programme and the Museum of Peace - MAMT - celebrated in Naples and in other Euro-Mediterranean cities the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. This event was established by the General Assembly of the United Nations through resolution number 54/134 of 17 December 1999.
The United Nations General Assembly," President Capasso reminded the many women present at the Museum of Peace, "designated 25 November as the date of the anniversary and invited governments, international organisations and NGOs to organise activities on that day to raise public awareness of the problem of violence against women.
The date of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women also marks the beginning of the "16 days of activism against gender-based violence" preceding World Human Rights Day on 10 December each year, initiated in 1991 by the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) and supported by the United Nations, to highlight that violence against women is a violation of human rights. This period", said President Capasso, "includes a number of other significant dates, including 29 November, Women Human Rights Defenders Day (WHRD), 1 December, World AIDS Day, and 6 December, the anniversary of the Montreal Polytechnic massacre, when 14 female engineering students were killed by a 25-year-old man who claimed he wanted to fight feminism".
In many countries, such as Italy, the colour displayed on this day is red and one of the symbolic objects is red women's shoes, lined up in squares or public places to represent the victims of violence and feminicide. The idea came from an installation by Mexican artist Elina Chauvet, Zapatos Rojos, created in 2009 in a square in Ciudad Juarez, and inspired by the murder of her sister by her husband and the hundreds of women kidnapped, raped and murdered in this border town in northern Mexico, a hub of the drug and human trafficking market. The installation has since been replicated in many countries around the world, including Argentina, the United States, Norway, Ecuador, Canada, Spain and Italy. The campaign in Italy is being carried out in particular by the Anti-Violence Centre and women's associations working in the field of violence against women.
And it was precisely red that welcomed the many visitors - in compliance with the anti-Covid 19 rules - who came to the Museum. There was great emotion in the Marrakech Room, where the walls are lined with the blank footprints of violated women whose stories can be seen on the Museum's video wall screens.

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THE DAY AGAINST VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN CELEBRATED AT THE MUSEUM. THE PARTICIPATION OF KIMIYYA WOMEN

Naples | 25 November 2020
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Kimiyya (EN)

With many webinar links women representing various fields - politics, culture, religion, volunteering, education, science, etc. - members of the KIMIYYA program of the Fondazione Mediterraneo celebrated the "World Day against violence against women" at the Museum of Peace - MAMT. The women members of the “Anna Lindh Italia Federation” participated.
It was the UN assembly in 1999 that chose this date in memory of the sacrifice of the sisters Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal, killed by agents of the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. But what is the story of the Mirabal sisters? To find out, we need to go back to 1960. On November 25 of that year, in fact, three sisters were killed by agents of the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, in Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic.
After being stopped in the street on their way to prison to visit their husbands, they were beaten with sticks and thrown into a ravine by their executioners, who tried to put the brutal violence through an accident. It was immediately clear to public opinion that the three women had been murdered. Patria, Minerva and María Teresa Mirabal - these are their names - were, in fact, known as activists of the clandestine group Movimento 14 giugno, disliked by the government. Because of their militancy, in January 1960, they were also arrested and jailed for a few months, as the page dedicated to their history published in the Encyclopedia of Women recalls.

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ADRIANA TOMAN AND MARIUCCIA CAMPOLO SIGN THE KIMIYYA POSTER

Naples | 10 July 2020
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Kimiyya (EN)

Adriana Toman and Mariuccia Campolo, women committed to the development of Calabria, signed the "Kimiyya Manifesto" in defense of women's rights.

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ROBERTA SANTANIELLO SIGNS THE KIMIYYA POSTER

Naples | 29 January 2020
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Kimiyya (EN)

Roberta Santaniello, director of the Campania Region and vice-president of the Campania Regional Assembly of the Democratic Party, signed the appeal of the Mediterranean Foundation for "THE ACTRESSED WOMEN OF THE DIALOGUE" titled "KĪMIYYA".
The program is designed and implemented by the Mediterranean Foundation, in collaboration with 12 national networks of the «Anna Lindh Foundation» (Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spain France, Italy, Malta, Mauritania, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Slovenia, Tunisia) and with the main international institutions (UN, European Parliament, Council of Europe, etc.).
WOMAN is the main "promoter" of links between civil societies: by supporting her training, education and access to new tools and new digital technologies, it will be possible to facilitate the implementation of intercultural dialogue in the Euro Mediterranean region and reduce migration and the causes of conflicts.
The name KĪMIYYA was chosen because in the ancient Mediterranean languages ​​(Amharic, Arabic, Greek and other languages) it means "to embrace", "to merge", "to reunite together", "to share", "to amalgamate".
809 are the first signatory women in the world to date, including Nobel laureates, women with government responsibilities, women of culture and science and so on for a long list to which today is added the name of Roberta Santaniello.

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