Arts - 21 Maggio 2019 On Women, Love, Writing, and her “Corpo felice”: An Interview with Dacia Maraini "This is not a novel, but an autobiographical book that originates from the very painful memory of a child that I lost when I was seven months pregnant. But this work is also an opportunity to talk about maternity, as I imagine a relationship with a son that grows and matures through the years. I have seen many of my friends’ children grow older and rebel against their parents--some got lost in this process, but others returned and recovered. So this book is a journey inside the mother and son relationship. It starts from a personal circumstance but then tries to expand the question by pondering on discourses that touch upon history, mythology and education."
U.N. - 15 Marzo 2019 “Our Girls Are Born Complete”: UN Panel Goals and Strategies for Eliminating FGM It will be imperative to have multilateral cooperation between countries in which FGM is performed in order to have “efficient intervention” against this phenomenon that “[violates] the physical integrity of women in general and girls in particular,” says Burkina Faso’s Minister of Women, National Solidarity, Family and Humanitarian Affairs.
U.N. - 8 Marzo 2019 Women’s Day 2019, Guterres: “Gender Equality Essential to Global Progress” "Gender equality is fundamentally a question of power. We live in a male-dominated world with a male-dominated culture. Only when we see women’s rights as our common objective, a route to change that benefits everyone, will we begin to shift the balance", Guterres said.
People - 12 Febbraio 2019 Never Give Up! Elena Favilli’s Success with “Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls” Here I go! I showed up curious at the Italian Cultural Institute at Park Avenue, Thursday February 7, 2019. Hard copy in hands, I waited for Elena Favilli to sign my Italian copy of “Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls” that I had bought two years ago while vacationing in Italy with my daughter. What a young and inspiring woman of many talents, from journalist to entrepreneur!
People - 19 Ottobre 2018 The MeToo Movement Must Embrace All Women, also the Displaced Ones After all, the global humanitarian crisis we currently face -- with 65 million people, the greatest number since WWII, displaced around the world -- is deeply gendered. Despite making up an historic 80 percent of that figure, women and girls are among those at greatest risk of paying for conflict and disaster with their lives
U.N. - 8 Maggio 2018 And When God Spoke, They Listened: A Reflection on Loss Loss is not something unfamiliar to those in the countries I visited, especially in Niger. Loss is an everyday occurrence with its difficult feelings, unreliable outbursts, and harrowing birthmarks. Loss is as uncontrollable as the desert.
Arts - 16 Marzo 2018 International Women’s Day in Music: the Right of All Women to Express Themselves The "Global Call for New Music" will involve women composers and creators of all ages, nationalities and artistic backgrounds. Promoted by United Voices 4 Peace, it is an important step to enhance women's talent and improve women's participation and empowerment.
News - 8 Marzo 2018 Leaders in the US: How Long Before There Is a Woman in the White House? March 8 is an important date to reflect on why the United States never had a woman as their Commander in Chief. One pundit suggested that if the US has not elected a woman president yet, it certainly isn’t for women’s lack of trying. On the other hand, another opined that the US has failed to produce a female president because “only one remotely serious woman has run for this position.”
Arts - 26 Marzo 2017 The Worth of Women: Feminism Started in Renaissance Venice A sixteenth-century book offers an insight on the issues that the women had to face in Renaissance Venice and still have to face today: violence, betrayal, family care, and inequality. Kairos Italy Theater's "The Worth of Women" takes us to the origins of feminism.
Lifestyles - 24 Marzo 2017 Colto, or How an Aussie Woman Entrepreneur Made It in Italy Catriona Wallis moved from Australia to Italy when she was in her 30's. Today she is the CEO of Colto, the Milan-based startup which develops educational mobile games for preschoolers around the world.