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national demonstration against violence against women November 24, 2007 ROME

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Rome, November 1, 2007

Controviolenzadonne.org-has opened a - National demonstration against male violence against women in Rome Nov. 24 - Strongly condemns the security approach in which institutions are addressing the case of the woman and raped in a coma yesterday after suffering an attack in Rome at the train station Tor di Quinto.

Again male violence is reduced to a security issue of cities and of public policy, exploiting the tragedy for political purposes of women who are raped and often killed.

Violence against women continues to be treated as individual deviance or as a liability burden to the nationality of the attackers and murder, and is structured in society and the family, and derives from the historical domination of one sex on ' more.

male aggression is the leading cause of death and permanent disability (UN figures) for women around the world.

Without a real cultural and political change defeat once and for all that patriarchy and male chauvinism can not be leap civiltà.La gender-based violence against women is one of the most pressing social and political emergencies and the silence of the institutions on the subject is no longer acceptable.

women throughout Italy, the anti-violence centers and women's organizations and feminist who responded to the appeal site www.controviolenza.org take to the streets Saturday, November 24 in Rome to condemn male violence against women and to affirm as protagonists, the freedom to decide their lives in public and private sectors.
http://www.controviolenzadonne.org/

information to StampaMonica Pepe - 340 8071544 stampa@controviolenzadonne.org Maria La Porta - 380 3031673 info@controviolenzadonne.org

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