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Amid COVID-19 Constraints, UN Women’s Commission Meets to Push Gender Equality

Despite constraints imposed by the new coronavirus disease, activists for gender equality gathered at UN Headquarters on Monday for the latest session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), to reinforce the message that women’s rights are human rights. In his opening address, UN Secretary-General António Guterres underlined that gender inequality and discrimination against women and […]

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My Friend Needed Money for an Abortion. I Do Not Regret Giving It to Her

Miles and years away, last spring I visited one of the Planned Parenthood clinics in New York. Before security escorted me in, I was briefly harassed by the 2 or 3 protesters standing outside in the rain. They screamed at me, “Are you interested in alternative information?”  Eleven years after I lent money for an abortion, I knew better than to engage with “pro-life" people. Maybe I should have told them that the only alternative options I am interested in are birth control, sexual education and free healthcare. If these are not available, then there must be a law allowing abortion. Laws on abortion exist because abortion exists, not the other way around. I wish my friend and all women, whether in the DR, Alabama, or Italy had that option.

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With ‘Flesh Out’, Occhipinti Reflects on the Woman’s Body and the Price of Beauty

Lean, fat, tall, small, white, dark… which and how many are the forms of beauty that women have been called to interpret in the service of an aesthetic ideal dictated by tyrannical, patriarchal societies? In "Flesh Out" – Il corpo della sposa (The Body of the Bride), Italian Director Michela Occhipinti offers us an unprecedented look on this theme by telling the story of Verida, a Mauritanian girl who is subjected to the traditional ritual of "gavage" - a hypertrophied alimentary regime with which the matriarchs of the family prepare girls for marriageable age. A culture where fat is beautiful, fat is rich.

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Montanelli, with his “Rented Child Bride”, Does not Deserve a Statue in his Honor

On March 8th, a statue of Indro Montanelli that has been standing for several years in a park in Milan, was smeared with washable pink paint by a feminist group. This act was carried out to commemorate an episode of sexual abuse on an Eritrean girl about which, despite having several opportunities to do so, the prominent journalist never apologized or stated any regrets. Removing that statue would help change a still existent chauvinistic male mentality in Italy.

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“Should I Go or Should I Stay?” Asia Argento’s Mission to Fight for Her Story

Argento decided that “we need to keep the conversation going because this movement is the most important thing to have happened to women since the vote”. In short, she and many other women see this as a mission. But I wonder if they realized when they took it on that a mission frequently involves a sacrifice, sometimes a great sacrifice, and certainly a great deal of pain. Did they also realize that all movements generate a backlash?

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Charles and Camilla of Bourbon from New York to the Revival of the South of Italy

Meeting at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan with the Head of the Royal House of Bourbon - Two Sicilies, former sovereign of Naples when it was the Capital of the kingdom of Two Sicilies. Politics have been part of the discussion, as well as the success of the Five Star Movement in the south of Italy, so as if there could be a possible political career to be considered: “Italy is the most beautiful place in the world. We all are Italians, with our intellectual and moral virtues. We must carry on with pride, and most of all we must be proud of our southern heritage”.

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