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Women, the mockery of the Government

Nobody cares obbere of international agreements while 127 women have died there in 2010, 6.7% more.

of Flavia Amabile

08.03.2011

How interested in politics to defend the immgine women? Partly, it seems to judge what is happening with the CEDAW, the Convention against Discrimination on their image in the media and advertising.

The CEDAW is an organization created 30 years ago and recognized by 186 countries in the world. Need to citizens and associations to report that they were victims of a violation of any rights set out in the Convention by the State concerned. Every four years the states that have ratified the CEDAW Committee are required to submit them to the elimination of discrimination against women reports assessing the progress made in implementing the Convention.

In 2005 the Committee had strongly rebuked Italy on many points. Here are the words he used:

- The Committee finds that his comments on the low participation of women in political and public life (Section 355), and the lack of programs to combat stereotypes through the school system and encourage men to take their responsibilities and share the housework, have been addressed in a totally inadequate.

remains the concern of the Committee on the persistence and pervasiveness of the attitude and the deep rooted patriarchal stereotypes regarding the roles and responsibilities of women and men in family and society.

The Committee is also deeply concerned that the representation of women is given by the mass media and advertising, because that is portrayed as sex objects and in stereotypical roles.

The Committee remains deeply concerned per la grave sotto-rappresentanza delle donne nelle cariche politiche e pubbliche, compresi gli enti elettivi, la magistratura, e a livello internazionale.

Che effetto hanno avuto queste parole? Nessuno. Il governo non ha diffuso né tradotto i rilievi del Comitato, ed è stato denunciato all'Onu per il suo comportamento. Nel 2009 l'esecutivo ha presentato un nuovo rapporto, come previsto dalla Convenzione. Ancora una volta nessuna diffusione né traduzione. Il prossimo luglio si attende la nuova risposta del Comitato.

E' lo stesso tipo di comportamento mostrato a proposito di Femmicidio. L'Italia ha il triste demerito di essere l'unico Paese UE insieme con il Portogallo a risultare assente dal database MDB (European mortality database) della ricerca WHO / Europe. Il governo non ha mai ritenuto che fosse il caso di mandare i suoi dati. E così chi vorrebbe cife aggiornate deve accontentarsi di poco o nulla.

Si riesce a sapere comunque qualcosa, nonostante la scarsità delle cifre disponibili. Ad esempio che l'Italia è pienamente nella media Ue come numero di donne uccise. Ha però un numero molto alto di delitti commessi da ex partner. Soltanto la Svezia ha la stessa incidenza. I giuristi specializzati nel settore sostengono che sia un problema legislativo. Quando una ex, spesso una donna che si sta separando, va a denunciare maltrattamenti non viene creduta perché si believes that it is a ploy to get custody of the children, "says Barbara Spinelli, a lawyer, who this afternoon will be the presentation of the book.

Despite the political exploitation, in short, women are still dying. And always more. In 2010 they were killed 127: 6.7% more than a year earlier. These data are alarming and exponential if we consider the uninterrupted growth since 2005.

Most of the victims are Italian women (78%), as well as most of the men who killed (79%). In most cases these husbands (22%), friends, partners (9%) o ex (23%), ma anche figli (11%) e padri (2%); uomini con i quali le donne avevano una relazione molto stretta. C'è un'incapacità di accettare le separazioni (19%), gelosie (10%) e conflittualità (12%)



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3/8/2011: Fahrenheit to speak of CEDAW

I Cento anni dell'Otto Marzo a Fahrenheit.

Con Marisa Ombra, staffetta partigiana, e Alessandra Gissi, storica, per raccontare più di cento anni di lotta politica delle donne. Con Barbara Spinelli per parlare della CEDAW, la Convenzione per l'eliminazione di tutte le forme di discriminazione contro le donne, e Giulia Selmi esperta di Pedagogia della differenza di genere per parlare di quanta storia c'è ancora da fare. Con Elena Sisti e Beatrice Costa, per parlare di donne che reggono il mondo e con le scrittrici Michela Murgia, Maria Pia Veladiano e Caterina Cavina per parlare di donne che il mondo lo raccontano.

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STEERING AWAY FROM ITALY SHOWGIRLS

Articolo di Loredana Lipperini

New York Times, 7 marzo 2011

Fonte: http://nytweekly.com/columns/

STEERING ITALY AWAY FROM SHOWGIRLS

ROME — Whoever asks how it is possible that so many young Italian women set their sights only on beauty may not be aware that for the past 15 years this has been the primary requisite of Italian girls. “Be beautiful” has been repeated to an entire generation by cartoon heroines; illustrated books explain to 4-year-olds how mascara is applied; and magazines for 12-year-olds give advice on oral sex.

Ten years ago, the 8-year-old contemporaries of Ruby Heart-Stealer — the 18-year-old Moroccan nightclub dancer at the center of the sex scandal involving Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi — were playing with dolls with the same names, looks and beauty kits as the veline, or showgirls, of “Striscia la notizia,” an Italian television program. The showgirls were and still are a model for thousands of young Italian girls.

These girls have been shaped by adult television, where women squat like animals under tables, are thrown seminaked under a shower or display their buttocks while climbing a ladder, all while television cameras zoom in on the lustful faces of male spectators. According to a study by Doxa, a market research firm, in 2008, “Striscia la notizia” ranked No. 2 out of the best-known programs for Italian children ages 5 to 13.

At the start of her career, Sara Tommasi, one of the showgirls involved in the scandal, declared, “My body is my business.” Yet, like many of the aspiring veline, she had just graduated with a degree in economics with excellent grades. The phenomenon is distressing, but understandable in a country where, even though more women than men have university degrees, only one in two women is employed and women face a greater risk of living in poverty than men; where equal pay does not exist; and where males outnumber women on news programs by three to one. In a culture that stresses family, women are expected to be caregivers and housewives, and often face discrimination in the workplace.

Italy’s women fare poorly even when compared to those in less developed countries. The World Economic Forum’s 2010 Gender Gap index put Italy in 74th place, behind the Philippines, Mozambique, Venezuela, Chile and Bulgaria. And Italy trails badly when it comes to shelters for abused women, with only one-tenth as many as the average in other European countries.

These shortfalls are part of life in a country where women’s issues are rarely taken seriously, especially in male-dominated politics. Few are aware that Italy ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in 1985. Based on that treaty, efforts should have been made to ensure that discriminatory practices were curtailed, but Italy has done little on that front.

Change should start with the media. The images of women that dominate in advertising and other media are highly objectionable and there are no regulations that promote decency or prohibit highly sexualized advertising campaigns. A solar panel company was able to advertise with images of a nude woman on billboards with the slogan: “Mount me at zero cost.” A bottle of liqueur and a dark-skinned woman appeared in an advertisement below the slogan “Fatti la cubana,” (“Do the Cuban”) which is a play on words for a more vulgar expression.

But change is coming. The Internet may now be what shapes Italian women rather than television’s showgirls. It has become a resource for them, a place to explore their self-esteem and get more positive information. The week before the demonstrations against Berlusconi on February 13, hundreds of girls changed their Facebook avatars to images of important women in history: Hypatia, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Rosa Parks, Tina Modotti and Virginia Woolf. This was not just simple “click activism.”

Female Italian students are demanding equal opportunity in the work force and in imagery. In Piazza del Popolo in Rome, where thousands of women protested against a country that does not represent them, young women called for more diverse female television role models, not just fashion dolls. Prior to this, young female bloggers organized mail bombings at television stations that showed programs and commercials they considered offensive. Through fan fiction spread online, girls are creating new female role models, where, heroines are not silent beauties.

The signs are hopeful, But more is needed, like Laws Guaranteeing female presence in leadership roles, Especially in media, where, insulting portrayal of women are firmly in the hands of men.

(Loredana Lipperini is a journalist, blogger and author of "More from the girls" (More from The Girls ") and" No Country for Old Men "(" Not a Country for Old Women " .))