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Still Millions of Child Brides in the World: Let’s Honor Their Sacrifice with a Statue

It’s a lack that must be filled, because our history, our culture, our art, our science is made also of feminine names, that remain invisible. It happens also in the rest of the world. In New York, for example the only statues dedicated to women are in Central Park and they represent fantasy figures, but on the 26th of August there will finally be some statues dedicated to real women. This is an example that Italy should imitate, but what are we waiting for?

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Italy 2019: It Hasn’t Been a “Dolce Vita” Year for Women

23 Nov 2019 The x-rays of the broken bones of 355 women that checked into the emergency room put on exhibit in the atrium of the San Carlo Hospital in Milan are disturbing to look at. Scenes of domestic violence that the surgeon, Maria Grazia Valvadori, wanted to take out of the private medical charts and bring to the public’s attention. A silent national drama. We spoke with Manuela Ulivi, president of the “Casa per le Donne Maltrattate” (Home for Battered Women) in Milan and author of the book, “Vive e libere” (“Alive and Free”).
Eight-year old Tahani with her husband 27-year old husband Majed along withTahani’s former classmate Ghada, also 8, with her husband, Hajjah. Yemen,Summer 2010. Photo Credit: © Stephanie Sinclair/VII/Tooyoungtowed.org

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The UN on Child Brides. The Fight for Young Girls to Have their own Rights

Roughly 1.8 billion youths, between the ages of 10 and 24, live in the world today – and nearly half (880 million) are females. Of that amount, 700 million were married before their 18th birthday. About 250 million girls were placed in marriages before they turned 15, 39,000 girls are forced to marry every day, some as young as eight years old. (Leggi un articolo sullo stesso argomento in Italiano)

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