Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Loose Bowels More Condition_treatment

AMBITO DI INTERVENTO >> PERsona: PER chi - PERché >> ZOOM >> MUTILAZIONI GENITALI FEMMINILI

“Esistono pratiche tradizionali che i nostri stessi avi, se dovessero tornare in vita, troverebbero obsolete e sorpassate” recitava il grande saggio africano Amadou Hampaté Bâ.

Le female genital mutilation (FGM) are traditional practices that are performed for therapeutic reasons, in 28 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, some countries in the Middle East, Asia and among some ethnic groups of Central and South America. It has also documented the presence in the countries of the EU and the U.S. among immigrant communities.
Such practices undermine the very psychological and physical health of girls and women who are subjected to. The World Health Organization estimates that have already been subjected to the practice 100-140 million women worldwide, and that 3 million girls are at risk each year.
WHO (World Health Organization Health) has classified mutilation in 4 different types, depending on the severity of effects
1. Circumcision (infibulation or al-sunna) : is the removal of the tip of the clitoris, with escape of seven drops of blood symbolic;
2. al-Wasat Excision: The removal of the clitoris and partial or total cutting of the labia minora;
3. Female circumcision (circumcision or Pharaonic or Sudanese) : The removal of the clitoris, labia minora, part of the labia majora with vaginal cauterization, followed by the stitching of the vulva, leaving only a hole open to allow the outflow of urine and del sangue mestruale;
4. Il quarto gruppo comprende una serie di interventi di varia natura sui genitali femminili.
Queste pratiche sono eseguite in età differenti a seconda della tradizione: per esempio nel sud della Nigeria si praticano sulle neonate, in Uganda sulle adolescenti, in Somalia sulle bambine.
Source: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutilazioni_genitali_femminili , http://www.endfgm.eu/

Si fa con un coltello speciale, in alcuni Paesi con piccole seghe, lamette o pezzi di vetro. A tagliare nella maggioranza dei casi è personale non medico.
Source: http://www.televideo.rai.it/televideo/pub/articolo.jsp?id=1692

Strumento per la pratica di mutilazione genitale femminile ( http://femminicidio.blogspot.com )

Bambina sofferente durante la pratica della circoncisione ( http://www.partitodemocratico.it )

"E' un'usanza africana, non musulmana, diffusa anche in uno stato cristiano, come l'Etiopia" spiega Marica Livio, ginecologa del Naga, un'associazione volontaria di assistenza per gli stranieri, "serve a garantire la verginità e, dopo il matrimonio, a garantire la fedeltà della moglie.
Molti governi, come il Kenya, l'hanno vietata, ma per la cultura africana è un rito importante: pochi, anche tra gli emigrati in Europa, ci rinunciano."
Source: http://www.unimondo.org/aidos/1998/1_009.html
 
Non aver subito la mutilazione genitale significa isolamento sociale: i Bambara, una delle etnie del Mali, chiamano "bikaloro" le bambine o donne non infibulate e questo è un gravissimo insulto, che vuol dire esseri devoid of any maturity. Women are not excised, they are not real women, have no friends, no right to be courting, getting married.
Source: infibulation, the article on Dr. Giuliana Proietti http://www.psicolinea.it/

Belief That There Is A female genitalia are dirty and unsightly. FGM-Practicing in Some societies, women are unmutilated Regarded as unclean and are not allowed to handle food and water. [...] Often FGM is Deemed Necessary in order for a girl to be Considered a complete woman, and the practice marks the divergence of the sexes in terms of Their future roles in life and marriage.
The removal of the clitoris and labia - viewed as burdens by the "evil parts” of a woman’s body - is thought to enhance the girl’s femininity, often synonymous with docility and obedience.
It is possible that the trauma of mutilation may have this effect on a girl’s personality. If mutilation is part of an initiation rite, then it is accompanied by explicit teaching about the woman’s role in her society.
Source: http://www.endfgm.eu/  
 
Nonostante questa pratica sia spesso attribuita ai dettami della fede musulmana o cristiana, le MGF precedono storicamente l’avvento di queste religioni e non possono quindi trovare giustificazione in esse.
According to some theories, excision dates back to ancient Egypt, but is also found in Rome, where he had practiced on the slaves and is linked to property aspects of the female body.
Also in Rome are infibulation - a term of Latin origin - which was initially designated an exclusively male: it was a sort of badge - fibula - which was applied to young people to prevent them from having sex.
But the center of the spread of female female seems to have been Pharaonic Egypt, as shown by the designation of "pharaonic circumcision".
However to date the origin of the mutilation Female Genital seems destined to remain undetermined. The only sure thing is that it was not to introduce Islam in Africa, female genital mutilation that were already there long before its diffusion.
It is in fact indigenous customs are deeply rooted in local societies and background to the penetration of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa and Central and Eastern Europe.
[...] The deep roots of FGM is due to a complex constellation of factors ranging from ethnic group to another but have some common traits. It is the role that such traditional practices in the construction of identity has gender and ethnicity in education, as well as in the definition of relations between the sexes and generations. For
traditional practices means those usual acts, commonly used, which have been made by previous generations, and that most likely will be passed to the next.
female genital mutilation, however, are a particular type of traditional practices. With them we are in fact the rites of passage, or those ceremonial practices that guide, supervise and regulate the changes of status, role, or age of people and in doing so mark the various stages of life, transforming them into a path ordered and with respect.
In particular, female genital mutilation is a key component of initiation rites in traditional societies through which it becomes a "woman." Women in fact are not born, to ensure that the rites that transform the membership sex linked to biological sex in a "social essence." [...]
female genital mutilation is also the gateway to their community, are a ritual of entry such as is the baptism for Catholics, and as such constitute a point of no return, which separates those who is inside from those outside.
[...] The context that gives meaning to the cultural practice of female genital mutilation is a complesso di strategie matrimoniali, fondate sul prezzo della sposa, a cui si accompagnano una serie di tratti secondari che variano da un’etnia all’altra. Per prezzo della sposa si intende il compenso che la famiglia del futuro marito versa alla famiglia della futura moglie in cambio non di una donna qualsiasi, ma di una donna illibata, intatta, vergine possibilmente chiusa oppure escissa a dovere in modo da scoraggiarne desideri e rapporti prematrimoniali [...] in altre parole le mutilazioni dei genitali femminili sono una componente fondamentale del matrimonio in Africa, poiché contribuiscono a regolare la gestione delle risorse e la rete complessa degli scambi e delle relazioni sociali.
Tenere presente questo complesso sistema economico-simbolico significa smettere di guardare alle mutilazioni dei genitali femminili come a una pratica culturale decontestualizzata, a una stravaganza esotica in grado solo di rimandarci alla categoria dei “fenomeni culturali”, facendo il gioco di quanti cercano di dare sostanza alle differenze culturali per poi poterne fare oggetto di discriminazione.
[...] Occorre ricordare infatti che, se nel passato tali pratiche hanno trovato un loro posto nelle cosmogonie protese alla codificazione dei ruoli tradizionali dei due sessi per contribuire “all'ordine mitico” del mondo, le pratiche dell'ablazione di tutto o parte degli organi genitali femminili esterni non sono prescritte da alcuna religione.
Tali pratiche entrano oggi in totally at variance with the universally recognized principles of respect for the physical and moral person and equality in dignity and rights of both sexes, and constitute an unacceptable violence against women.
addition to the psychological damage they generate, they cause many medical dramas and contribute to the persistence of high mortality of women in countries where they are practiced on a massive scale.
Source: STOP FGM! year 2004-2006, published by No Peace Without Justice

Three young women in Nimba County, Liberia, On Their Way to Participate in the Sand School - a bush That initiation ceremony ends with female genital mutilation ( http://www.flickr.com )

Young african girls Being prepared for circumcision ( http://www.newstimeafrica.com )

intervention infibulation not is a once in a lifetime : many women are defibulated reinfibulation and then at of each delivery. And we know how many times a woman in certain countries be forced to give birth. The most serious complications are mostly physical: death, hemorrhage, infection, but also the psychological consequences are no less serious.
Moreover, when a child feels that those who should protect, namely the mother's parents are the first to make sure that you suffer this pain, this violence, the psychological reaction that can not be that of an implicit pact with evil his assailants, his identification with them to confirm their worth in their eyes. It 's so that a mutilated woman becomes in turn the mutilation of his daughter because in questo atto trova le ragioni della propria storia.
[...] Le donne devono comprendere l’assurdità di questa mutilazione e va assolutamente impedito che esse da vittime continuino a trasformarsi in carnefici.
Source: INFIBULAZIONE, articolo della Dr.ssa Giuliana Proietti su http://www.psicolinea.it/

"The pain inflicted by FGM does not stop with the initial procedure, but often continues as ongoing torture throughout a woman’s life " Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture

Though no religious scripts prescribe the practice , practitioners often believe the practice has religious support. Religious leaders take varying positions with regard to FGM: some promote it, some consider it irrelevant to religion, and others contribute to its elimination.
[...] Local structures of power and authority, such as community leaders, religious leaders, circumcisers, and even some medical personnel can contribute to upholding the practice. [...] In some societies, recent adoption of the practice is linked to copying the traditions of neighbouring groups. Sometimes it has started as part of a wider religious or traditional revival movement. In some societies, FGM is being practised by new groups when they move into areas where the local population practice FGM.

Female genital mutilation has no known health benefits. On the contrary, it is known to be harmful to girls and women in many ways.
First and foremost, it is painful and traumatic. It involves removing and damaging healthy and normal female genital tissue, and interferes with the natural functions of girls' and women's bodies.
Immediate complications can include severe pain, shock, haemorrhage (bleeding), tetanus or sepsis (bacterial infection), urine retention, open sores in the genital region and injury to nearby genital tissue.
Long-term consequences can include: recurrent bladder and urinary tract infections, cysts, infertility, the need for later surgeries (for example, the FGM procedure that seals or narrows a vaginal opening is surgically changed to allow for sexual intercourse and childbirth, and sometimes stitched close again afterwards) and an increased risk of childbirth complications and newborn deaths (for example, babies born to women who have undergone female genital mutilation suffer a higher rate of neonatal death compared with babies born to women who have not undergone the procedures).
Source: Eliminating FemaleGenitalMutilation, published by WHO (World Health Organization), http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/fgm/9789241596442/en/index.html


Northern Iraq, Sheelan Anwar Omer, 7 years old, Continues to cry after Was a female circumcision preformed on her (photo by Andrea Bruce reportage for The Washington Post titled Sheelan's Circumcision)

The age of women undergoing FGM varies from 15 to 49 years (standard document), but the practice has spread to children under 9 years.
"In Egypt 90% of girls who HAD undergone FGM Were Between 5-14 years of age When subjected to the procedures, 50% of Those in Ethiopia, Mali and Mauritania Were under 5 years of age, and 76% of Those in the Yemen're Not More Than 2 weeks old. "
Source: Progress in Sexual and Reproductive Health Research, No. 72, WHO (World Health Organization), 2006
Among mothers who undergo FGM, 1-2 per cent of babies die as a result (per 100 Deliveries).
Source: Amnesty International, WHO (World Health Organization)

"it is dangerous social and cultural practices that affect the welfare, dignity, normal growth and normal development of the child "
Source: African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, 1990, Art. 5
As a manifestation of gender inequality, FGM / C is multidimensional and Affects the physical and mental health of girls and women in many ways. It affects girls’ schooling and limits their capacity to reach their potential.
It can increase the risk of becoming infected with HIV.
[...] Accordingly, ending all forms of FGM/C is crucial to the success of the Millennium Development Goals, especially those related to gender equality, universal primary education, maternal health, child mortality and HIV/AIDS. Fundamentally the practice is a violation of human rights, and more specifically of child rights, and needs to be dealt with in ways that address its underlying causes.
Source: Platform for Action: Towards the Abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), The Donors Working Group on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting  
 
FGM is recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women. It reflects deep-rooted inequality between the sexes, and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women. It is nearly always carried out on minors and is a violation of the rights of children.
The practice also violates a person's rights to health, security and physical integrity, the right to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and the right to life when the procedure results in death.
Source: Amnesty International, WHO (World Health Organization),

Among the numerous international conventions for the protection of women from female genital mutilation , the Ouagadougou Declaration calls "the adoption of national laws that condemn female genital mutilation, and the creation of special facilities for the control of migratory flows of circumcisions."
The first Ministerial Conference on Human Rights Organisation per l’Unità Africana (OAU), tenutasi nell’aprile del 1999 alle isole Mauritius, ha esortato gli Stati africani ad adoperarsi per l’eliminazione delle discriminazioni contro le donne e per l’abolizione delle pratiche culturali disumane e degradanti per le donne e per le bambine e i bambini.
Source: Convenzioni internazionali per la protezione delle donne dalle mutilazioni genitali femminili, Progetto Aurora: MGF, io no

Women listen to an educational talk regarding the dangers
of female circumcision in Mali (Photo Alfredo Caliz)

Educational group against female genital mutilation ( http://www.fgmnetwork.org )

[...] Questo problema, che ci appare così lontano, appartenente ad altri mondi ed ad altre culture, ci è invece molto vicino: in Italia infatti vivono oggi tra noi 28.000 donne mutilate, fra cui 5.000 hanno subito questo intervento in Italia.
Source: INFIBULAZIONE, articolo della Dr.ssa Giuliana Proietti su http://www.psicolinea.it/

What arouses greater surprise is the discovery that this traditional practice is also carried out on children born in Western countries and nationals of these countries. A stronger then traditional practice of law and civilization of the West that continues to be perpetrated mainly by the will of women to whom is delegated the role of traditional cultural heritage conservation and where the attitude of surrender, submission , inferiority and passivity coincides with the social control of female behavior.
[...] The National Committees are non-governmental organizations, but they need to operate the government support, perché è essenziale associare nelle campagne di formazione/informazione i ministeri della Sanità, dell'Istruzione, dell'Informazione, degli Affari religiosi.
Contemporaneamente alla formazione di formatori che inseriscano la tematica in tutti i progetti e programmi di sviluppo in corso nel paese, si procede all'elaborazione di materiale da utilizzare nei media moderni (giornali, radio e TV) e nelle forme di comunicazione più tradizionali (poesia, canzoni, teatro).
Ai Comitati nazionali vengono inoltre dati i mezzi tecnici e finanziari per condurre le campagne di formazione e informazione. Ma Aidos non interviene nei contenuti dei pacchetti formativi, né nella scelta messages to be given by the experts that are fully developed in the country concerned.
None of us has ever deluded that a traditional practice such as FGM can be eradicated in a few years. It takes political will and adequate resources.
In recent years, however, progress has been enormous.

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AMBITO DI INTERVENTO >> PERsona: PER chi - PERché >> FEMMINICIDE 4

[...] In any form is exercised, the violence is always the exercise of a power that tends to deny the woman's personality: brutalizing his body or his soul is said to rule over it, making it the object of power is deprived of its subjectivity.
Feminicide so it is a social fact: the woman is killed as a woman, or because it is the woman that the man or the company would like it to be.

Violence domestique , videos, http://www.justice.gouv.fr/

Sure as hell, made video group Gravida @ mind
for November 25 International Day against Violence on Women

[...] If you look at the femicide as a social fact, it becomes easier to understand how the scope of its spread is "glocal" in the sense that even as a global phenomenon, it manifests itself with particular characteristics (local) different depending on the social structure of reference.
If in fact our society does not recognize violence against women unless it is expressed in more extreme forms, as well as in these cases tends to "normalize" than to connote such as gender violence, there are companies in which some forms of violence against women are accepted as normal, as it is socially - and in some cases even institutionally, more or less explicitly - shared the patriarchal ideology, which wants the woman subordinate to man.

Two Worldz , BR1, Italy

Muslim World, Islamic Barbie's 50th anniversary makeover

[... ] The first step to make the femicide problem is solved politically "recognize" (1) in the form that manifests itself locally. [...] Says Patrizia Romito (2) “il non-detto è indicatore politico di indifferenza e oscurantismo verso realtà problematiche, che generano un dolore non riconosciuto e non quantificato, in quanto tale non guaribile”.
[...] E’ noto che le società di matrice patriarcale e quelle divise in classi generano meccanismi ideologici per perpetrare e giustificare le relazioni di disuguaglianza, discriminazione, ingiustizia e tutti i tipi di violazioni dei diritti di quelle parti sociali che stanno in una posizione subordinata e marginale.
Tali meccanismi vengono fatti propri e riprodotti non solo dalle classi che ne beneficiano, ma anche dalle classi che ne sono vittime, che si rassegnano al loro status e si sentono alienate.
Nel caso delle donne, la sovrastruttura ideologica del sistema di matrice patriarcale o classista, si è servita delle Istituzioni sociali (religione, diritto, sistema educativo, media) per fondare e assicurare la subordinazione delle donne nelle relazioni di potere familiari, economiche, sociali in generale, ma in particolar modo per controllare lo svolgimento della sua funzione procreativa, considerata come un’obbligazione naturale.
Gli attori sociali quindi hanno una concezione della donna come soggetto violabile, ovvero come oggetto di dominio.
Ciò limita la donna nell’esprimersi, nel decidere, nell’agire: la sua condotta è determinata da decisioni others that, in fact or in law, impose their will on it, even through violence. [...]
the woman is not considered, and therefore protected by the State as a woman, as a bearer of inalienable rights absolute, but is rather seen in the name of the social importance, or that is assigned by the company to its nature: that of "mother" or "wife."




Stop Violence Against Women (Amnesty International) , http://www.mdesign.se/sites/amnesty/

[...] è necessario, ed è atto dovuto, garantire alle donne il diritto live freely in their own bodies and their sexuality, [...] recognize that male violence against women is a major structural problem in society which is based sull'ineguale distribution of power in relationships between men and women, and encourage active participation in actions designed to combat violence against women (3) . What would [...]
emergency would be quite an awareness campaign, which "mobilize public opinion by organizing conferences or collaboration and dissemination of information, so that the company is aware of the problem and its devastating effects on victims and the community at large, and we can discuss with the involvement of victims (4) .

(1) The not knowing has a function for the dominant as the dominated, namely the maintenance of order of things. [...] It 's just that the denial of the oppressed is stronger than oppression. (Mathieu, 1991, pp. 10 and 218 in P. Romito, A deafening silence. The hidden violence against women and children, p. 175, FrancoAngeli, 2005).
(2) P. Romito, A deafening silence. Hidden violence against women and children, FrancoAngeli, 2005.
(3) Council of Europe, Recommendation 5 / 2002 of the Committee of Minister to member states on the Protection of Women Against Violence, III.
(4) Council of Europe, Recommendation 5 / 2002 of the Committee of Minister to member states on the Protection of Women Against Violence, 7.

Source: Amnesty International, WHO (World Health Organization)
Source: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: Speaking of femicide, published by Democratic Lawyers on http://www.giuristidemocratici.it/

Monday, June 28, 2010

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AMBITO DI INTERVENTO >> PERsona: PER chi - PERché >> FEMMINICIDE 3



[...] a reminder that behind the rhetoric of the speeches and policies to tackle violence against women (which almost everyone, even today, continue to believe is only the sexual violence and not the domestic, economic, social, cultural ..) is the same now as then, and is at the service of patriarchy. [...] Woman object "as woman ". Even today, the woman becomes important as mother, wife, daughter, whore: that as a "functional" to the male.
femicide is this: any violent social practice staff or physically or psychologically, that threatens the integrity, the mental and physical development, health, liberty or life of the woman, with the aim of wiping out the identity of the subject through physical or psychologically into submission or death of the victim in the worst cases.




A type of cultural violence that most women
agree to suffer in silence:
the commodification of the female body through the media
Top: For, Men's Magazine, Tom Ford For Men; Durex XXL; BMW

[...] Feminicide is a social fact: the woman is murdered in his subjectivity as a woman, why not agree to job that the man or the company would like to impersonate .

Source: Article by Barbara Spinelli, author of femicide, from social commentary to international legal recognition, Angeli, 2008

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AMBITO DI INTERVENTO >> PERsona: PER chi - PERché >> FEMMINICIDE 2



International Vulva Knitting Circle, Working Group 2008

The concept of femicide is complex and varied, we talked with Barbara Spinelli, Democratic Lawyers Association.

The term "femicide" is often a bit 'of confusion. Sometimes it is used only to indicate that violence leads to death of the woman. Can you clarify the meaning and implications of the word?
Lagarve Marcela, who is a South American sociologist, has coined this distinction between " femicidio " , which means the murder of women and "femicide " , which is used in a broader sense and implies all the violence, both physical and psychological, often directed against women and its annihilation, of course, precisely and as a psychic or moral annihilation sia come annientamento fisico. Quindi [il termine femminicidio] comprende violenze di entità diversa ma che sono accomunate tutte dal fatto di puntare, diciamo, ad una diminuzione del valore fisico o morale della donna.

Qual è, allora, la distinzione tra i concetti di “violenza di genere” e “femminicidio”, e perché, secondo voi, sarebbe più utile usare la parola “femminicidio”?
Diciamo che la violenza di genere si identifica con il femminicidio perché ogni violenza rivolta contro la donna in quanto donna va a colpirla personalmente.
Noi intendiamo parlare di femminicidio piuttosto that gender violence just for the femicide that has a symbolic value and is larger even greater impact on public opinion.
Above all, the term femicide we want to emphasize the common matrix that have all kinds of gender violence: being turned against the woman and have a destructive end to it. The single incident of molestation or rape should be contextualized socially, because it is repeated over time and is accompanied by other forms of harassment which can be precisely discrimination at work, the precarious life that she has to live because of the failure recognition in society.
[Putting together all these elements] is to better understand how the company culture going to affect the role of women and are in the minority and to destroy it physically and mentally.
You go in time to affect what is the identity and personality of the woman who is unable to self-determination.

National Day Against Violence Against Women , 2004

Demonstration against the oppression of women , Paris, March 15, 2009

Urban Guerrilla against the commodification of the female body in advertising
and Sexism , hands down by the body

So, in short, the goal is to get out a fragmented view of the different forms of violence against women to make a single concept.
Yes of course in law you can not talk about femmincidio, because it is right that violence is viewed in terms of several different entities. But political and cultural need to emphasize that the woman has the right to self-determination. The state must guarantee the right to life both the health, safety, how to self-determination . So speaking of femicide are avoided, for example, what are the abuses that can take the media going to take the single rape and making it a special case and not looking at the context in which it acted, and to all those who are social institutions that discriminate against women.

Source: femicide: a political term, article by Olivia Fiorilli on http://www.womenews.net/spip/

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AMBITO DI INTERVENTO >> PERsona: PER chi - PERché >> FEMMINICIDE 1

"One in every three women worldwide suffer abuse in his family environment, a situation that affects, to a greater or lesser extent, all countries without exception, according to data from the Fund United Nations Women (UNIFEM). One every three women worldwide will be raped, assaulted, forced to have sexual relations or is otherwise abused during her lifetime [...] Violence not only destroys the lives of women, but the potential you might have in them. This causes serious losses and retreat into their own community ".
Noeleen Heyze, Executive Director of UNIFEM

In 1992 the UN includes violence in its definition of discrimination based on gender and the following year, the World Conference on Human Rights enshrines women's rights as fundamental rights. In '97, the European Women's Lobby and create the European Monitoring Centre for European Policy Action on violence against women and in '99, finally, the European Commission is promoting a campaign internationally against domestic violence.
In this regard it should be noted that most of - If not all - awareness campaigns on violence against women are not, as many are led to believe, only addressed to those who commit such violence. They are indeed mainly directed to those that violence, while not committing, do not recognize or report it, or so the fight.

What femicide?
E 'all forms of discrimination and violence directed against women "as a woman." E 'gender-based violence in all its forms. And 'the exercise of power that men and women have on society so that its behavior meets expectations of men and patriarchal society.
This form of control destroys the identity of the woman by subjecting it physically and / or psychologically, economically, legally, politically, socially.
Feminicide and 'the daily punishment for any woman who refuses to play its role in society, is the main obstacle to self-determination and the enjoyment of fundamental rights of more than half the world population. Feminicide through every age, every culture, every place.
As Bourdieu has argued, male domination over women is the oldest and most persistent forms of oppression exist.
Feminicide violates human rights of half the world, often with the connivance of the institutions.

Your body is a battleground , Barbara Kruger

No one will keep us from seeing , Amnesty International campaign for Pakistan

ABUSE The Truth Hurts. Violence Against Women and Children ,
campaign Ernestine's Women's Shelter, Toronto

Women all over the world in the last two centuries have taken a path with force policy and legal face to the claim that women's rights are human rights.
To date, there is a widespread awareness of this principle, which was taken as fundamental by both international bodies and by many States, which pledged to implement in practice by ratifying the CEDAW and / or the various regional conventions that affirm the women's fundamental rights.
However, despite the widespread awareness of the fact that the woman is a person, and therefore, like man, the bearer of a sphere of dignity, freedom, physical and psychological integrity inviolable, and although this principle is stato giuridicamente codificato, assistiamo a palesi violazioni dei diritti umani delle donne in tutto il mondo, per il solo fatto di essere donne.
In tutto il mondo, la prima causa di morte per le donne è il femminicidio.
In tutto il mondo, anche nei Paesi laddove i principi della CEDAW sono stati declinati in una normativa interna “di pari opportunità”, di fatto la donna viene ancora discriminata ed è soggetta a violenza quotidiana. L’Italia ne è un esempio significativo (vedasi le Raccomandazioni del Comitato per l’applicazione della CEDAW).
Il perché della persistenza e della pervasività delle discriminazioni e violenze di genere, si rinviene in un fattore comune: la persistenza e la pervasività di una mentalità patriarcale, che attraversa tutte le culture, ed è volta al controllo della donna come “risorsa creativa”, come “fattrice”, e dunque come perno della famiglia e della società stessa.
Fino a quando, in nome della religione o in nome del bene superiore della collettività, gli Stati sacrificheranno la libertà e l’autodeterminazione della donna alla tutela della “morale” e della “famiglia”, alla protezione della donna in funzione del suo ruolo sociale di madre e moglie, i diritti fondamentali delle donne continueranno ad essere calpestati.
Gli Stati che hanno ratificato CEDAW and other regional papers, have assumed an obligation in mind: ensure that women have citizenship or that they may in practice enjoy their fundamental rights. This implies an obligation for the state to take action to remove discriminatory situations not only through regulatory changes but also by promoting a cultural change, acknowledging that freedom of choice of the woman, her psychological and physical integrity are absolute values, that must be recognized without compromise.
Where there is a connivance at the institutional machismo, misogyny, patriarchy in, there is a responsibility of State.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

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MAPPA DI SISTEMA PER PAROLE CHIAVE - KEYWORDS



A map Conceptually, a visual glossary that identifies the project area.

Curtain Holdback Placement

LA CURA DELLE COSE = ?


Discipline:
DESIGN FOR COMPLEXITY

or complex adaptive systems that display emergent behavior.

emergent behavior in the new urban land
care of things
or
design to Improve Quality of Life.




care of things like CARE OF PERSONS
as VIOLATE THE CARE OF WOMEN:
a design to re-weave the social relations, a design to give voice to those who has not.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Does Wine Cause Black Poop

ABOUT

This blog is my diary thesis, the story of a project, the "place-incubator" in which this project after taking life, will begin its development.

Theme of the project is the lacerating scourge of Genital Mutilation (FGM ) , a cultural practice inhumane and degrading to women and girls.
ultimate goal is to create a network of sharing around the problem: to create awareness about ignored as an explicit violation of human rights, in total contradiction with the universally recognized principles of respect for the physical and moral person and equal in dignity and rights of both sexes, which is also unacceptable violence against women ; groped to add a new element to a more necessary than ever, raising awareness of mass.

Sebbene ci sembri una pratica lontana anni luce dalla nostra realtà, è dimostrato come sia presente anche in Italia (secondo Souad Sbai - deputata e presidente delle donne marocchine in Italia - in Italia sono 600 le bimbe immigrate a rischio mutilazione genitale, nonostante il fenomeno sia in calo poiché l'integrazione porta all'abolizione della pratica), e come sia altresì difficile proteggere le donne da questo "supplizio culturale".
Sebbene nei paesi in cui questa usanza è più radicata, il dibattito pubblico sia aperto e molto forte, e numerose donne si mobilitino quotidianamente per combattere questa piaga, è estremamente difficult to give support to women who want to abandon it does not control their daughters, since there is social acceptance, and these women end up being expelled from their communities.
Although many women try to escape this reality by emigrating to the West, or they are forced, no European country has recognized female genital mutilation as grounds for political asylum: useless then migrate in search of human rights.

All this makes this issue an emergency in effect , which can not be ignored because "the violation of diritti delle donne non può essere giustificata in nome del relativismo culturale" (commissario Ue, Benita Ferrero-Waldner).

Occorre quindi muoversi con una serie di azioni che non abbiano solo carattere proibitivo-punitivo, ma anche di informazione, per sdradicare tradizioni patriarcali, violente e oppressive alla radice.
Occorre dire basta ad ogni forma di discriminazione e violenza posta in essere contro la donna "in quanto donna", e rendere libera ogni donna di scegliere di essere sè stessa, e non quello che l'uomo o la società vorrebbero che fosse.
Occorre communicate to give voice to those who do not have.

And 'this, then I want to address the issue, and how I chose the half jewel erroneously defined as "what is the best product or semi-precious materials, it was decided to use with the best workforce possible, and having an artistic content. "
This inevitably leads to the trivialization of a vast world that tells of ancient civilizations, he speaks of man, of his feelings, recalling places, faces, and passions.
The Jewels of us speak from the past and future, with the magic, wonder, joy, show our life force, our love beyond their value and their ability to decorate.

thus deviating from the canonical definition of jewelry, if they expand the features. As with the works of art, is an element rich in meaning, whose non-verbal communication intensifies the message, since it requires the interpretation of it.
may thus have a strong symbolic function, which brings with it to have a real personal relationship / emotional.
becomes the writings of the many complex internal and external to it, situating the intersection of aesthetics and function-funzione-linguaggio/messaggio.

These are my "input": I hope you will help me make this blog the fertile soil.
Chiara