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27 February 2023
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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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05 March 2022
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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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25 November 2021
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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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25 November 2020
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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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10 July 2020
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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.
