ROVEREDO IN PIANO – A very current and painful topic was spoken and discussed on the afternoon of April 23rd at the Auditorium of the Municipality of Roveredo in Piano, in the presence of a large and attentive audience and representatives of the FIDAPA association of Pordenone, organizer of the event “The Woman Dimension, the Islamic world where Sharia is in force and the Western vision”.
Speakers include the Iranian human rights activist Taher Djafarizad, president of the Neda Day Association, and the lawyer Benedetta Cojazzi, Fidapa member.
The topic was presented by Alessandra Turchet, who highlighted how difficult it was also in Italy to achieve gender equality, which is still being worked on.
President Fidapa Morena Cristofori, moderator of the meeting, reported the historic commitment of the association from 1930 onwards, throughout the world, in favor of female emancipation and stated that, from the point of view of dignity, there are no differences between Western culture and other cultures, all worthy of being welcomed and defended in their peculiarities and values. The discriminating factor has always been caused by theocracy and its supporters.
Maria Luisa Casucci, Vice President of Fidapa, underlined that “being a woman can be a fortune or a calamity, it depends on the place where you are born, on politics and geopolitics… the veil is not just an item of clothing, an accessory, but the brand of submission decided by men”.
Taher Djafarizad passionately testified to a society, the Iranian one, in which we have gone from a democratic lifestyle in the 70s to the largest prison in the world today.
The stories of the denial of human rights, of the atrocious violence and of the horrible crimes against women and against those who support their cause, in the places and countries where Sharia is in force, really impressed the audience who asked many interesting questions about the subject.
Benedetta Cojazzi, in her detailed report on the legislative history of women’s rights starting from 1874, showed how in our country the struggle was long and tiring, also having to overcome the wall of certain declarations by intellectuals and statesmen of the past, which conveyed the idea of a woman inferior to man and relegated to the role of wife and mother. This effort, fortunately faced in a democratic country, only saw rape defined as a crime in 1990 and the “Femicide Law” established in 2013 with Law 119.
“It is important”, concluded Cojazzi, “that the revolution starts from ourselves… if you want to change the world you have to change yourself. Let’s learn to love ourselves more. I’m sure that if women were in government, wars wouldn’t happen!”
And, knowing each other, we can only agree with her.
Antonietta Maria Di Paola
