ANCONA – The appointments dedicated to continue International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, celebrated by the municipal administration of Ancona as an opportunity for reflection, discussion and collective awareness. Tomorrow Tuesday 19 November, from 4.30 pm in the municipal council room, the round table organized by ANDOS Marche odv as part of October-November Pink will be held on the theme “The rights and needs of women, whether breast operated or not”. The lawyer Maria “Milli” Virgilio will speak, president GIUdiT Giuriste d’Italia, Bologna; the biblical scholar Father Alberto Maggi, Founder of the “Vannucci” Biblical Studies Center, Montefano and the sculptor Federica Toppan who will exhibit her bronze works dedicated to the female condition, to the effort to free herself from illness and any burden, in sharing with other women. Andos has made it its mission to inform about the need to inform, for the “care” of women, not only in the physical sense and the meeting on 19 November aims to be a contribution to the women of the area, between Health, Law and Art in the field of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Monday 25 November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the facade of Town hall and the Calamo Fountain they will come illuminated in orange, the color recognized throughout the world as a symbol of a future without violence against women. At 5pm in the City Council room, the meeting entitled “More aware, more confident”, edited by Italian Judo Wrestling Karate Martial Arts Federation Marche (FIJLKAM). After institutional greetings and greetings from the FIJLKAM Marche president, Dr Ida Campanella, psychologist and psychodiagnostician and a representative of the Women and Justice association which manages the Anti-Violence Center of Ancona.
Again on November 25th at Mole boxing room, at 6 pm, edited by UNICREDIT, Conversations about money, the conference focused on the theme of economic violence. Illustrious speakers will speak, including the writer Stefania Auciauthor of the very popular novels “The Lions of Sicily and The Winter of the Lions”, saga of the historic Palermo Florio family from which a successful TV series was based, in which the female protagonists play a decisive role. Also, Luciano Canova, economist and social communicator, Grazia Barbato, Unicredit Marche Retail Area Manager, Alice Sarcinelli, Anthropologist, associate professor at Paris Citè University, Ivana Neffat, Program Coordinator Banking Academy ESG Italy, UniCredit and Azzurra Rinaldi, Director of the School of Gender Economics at Unitelma Sapienza University. «With these appointments – he comments the Equal Opportunities councilor, Orlanda Latini – we continue our awareness-raising activity against gender violence. In particular, the meeting on economic violence, often not adequately taken into consideration and even considered a secondary phenomenon, concerns approximately 49 percent of women who end up being victims of economic deprivation. Reflecting and knowing how to defend yourself from physical and psychological aggression but also from economic ones is the first step towards a woman’s independence and self-esteem.”
