Women

Since 1994 Fondazione Mediterraneo identified women as the main actors to support dialogue and peace: seminars, workshops, appeals, publications, exhibitions and other activities are carried out in order to promote gender equality and human rights.
In particular, the "KIMIYYA" program aims to spread a culture of respect and defense of women's rights, considering their fundamental role as "actresses of dialogue".
Over the last thirty years, the Foundation has carried out over 500 initiatives in favor of women.
Below, just as an example, are the main ones.
All the activities carried out are reported in the GENERAL LIST BY YEAR.
For the entire "KIMIYYA" initiatives click on the link above.

 

ONE HUNDRED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ON THE ISLAM

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Napoli | 16 January 2017
Parent Category: Attività (EN) - Category: Women

The Fondazione Mediterraneo held the 100th international conference on the theme of Islàm, today more than ever topical.
In more than 25 years - said President Capasso - the Foundation has been characterized by the attention paid to the Islàm theme, as evidenced by the hundred conferences held: from the Forum of 1997 with over 2,000 participants in the programme "Mediterranean, Europe, Islàm: actors in dialogue" coordinated by Prof. John Esposìto. An important experience that is presented today in the emotional path of the Museum of Peace - MAMT entitled Un Mare, tre Fedi, dedicated to the three monotheistic religions. I would like to thank Corriere della Sera for having published the interviews of the main participants who today allow us to review the main stages of the programme ".

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PRESENTATION OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE MED FORUM OF MALTA TO THE MINISTERS OF THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN (5+5)

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Marsiglia | 28 October 2016
Parent Category: Attività (EN) - Category: Women

At the initiative of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a meeting of young people and civil society was held in Marseille - in parallel with the 13th 5 + 5 meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs - with the participation of the leaders of the Anna Lindh Foundation Networks of their respective countries 5 + 5) in order to discuss and present the recommendations of the MED FORUM of Malta to Ministers.
For Italy, the leader Michele Capasso and Enrica Miceli participated.
President Michele Capasso had a cordial interview with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault with whom - when he was the mayor of Nantes - initiatives for the Mediterranean and young people were held together with the Fondazione Mediterraneo.
Minister Ayrault shared the recommendation of President Capasso on the need to facilitate cultural mobility for young people in the Mediterranean and reiterated his personal commitment to the Press Conference.

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ALGERIAN AND TUNISIAN MOTHERS WHO JOINED THE TUNIS WORLD SOCIAL FORUM PRAISED THE TOTEM OF PEACE DEDICATED TO UNKNOWN MIGRANT

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Tunisi | 27 March 2015
Parent Category: Attività (EN) - Category: Women

Tunisian and Algerian mothers who joined the Tunis Forum really appreciated the efforts made by Fondazione Mediterraneo in order to give back dignity to migrants who lost their lives in the sea. In particular, the installation in Naples of the “Totem of Peace with the urn of Unknown Migrant” has been praised. The president Michele Capasso, who is engaged for 25 years in the support of solidarity and peace, has declared:

“The Totem of Peace with the urn of Unknown Migrant installed in Naples Port intends to be concrete proof of respect both towards people dead in the sea and Captain Port- Guard Coast which is engaged in the rescue of human beings. The support of Algerian and Tunisian mothers is the proof which the undertaken issue is deserved homage to whom who through the loss of their lives take the attention of the world back to the issues of liberty, freedom and peace”. The topic of migrants dead in the sea has been one of the most important ones discussed at Tunis World Social Forum. The mothers of Tunisians who lose their lives after the 2011 revolution are asking again to Europe to: "Give back our children". There are more than five hundred Tunisian mothers who are in search of their "desaparecidos" during their travel to Italy. The grief of Tunisian mothers is partaken also by Middle American mothers. At Tunis there was also Marta Sánchez Soler, coordinator of Middle American Migrant Movement and which intends focus the attention to lost people in the world and build a global network between Tunisian, Algerian and Plaza de Mayo mothers yelling the hopefully slogan: “ They took them alive and we want them back alive. ”At Tunis Forum mothers partook their grief and struggled towards the institutions which are trying to distort the truth. In the pictures and in the faces which mothers hold in their hands there is the will to take identity and give it back and give human form to the data: these are the efforts of European civil society which thanks to the Forum had the occasion to become one thing. The aim is to “build a Mediterranean space and make it be a space in which dignity, social justice and rights for all are the priority”.

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