Bound And Gagged Women

March 8

Rita Cinti Luciani Head National Equal Opportunities PSI

March 8 International Women's Day brings us to rethink many social and political achievements have been reached in the last century through the efforts and determination of many women and men.

In VII Congress of the Socialist of 1907, as leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Clara Zetkin put the issue of women and claiming a right to vote to women. Congress passed a resolution in which they undertook the socialist parties to "fight vigorously for the introduction of universal suffrage of women." A few days later there was a conference of 'International, in which it was decided to create an information office of Socialist Women and Clara Zetkin directed the magazine "Die Gleichheit" Equality ", which became the organ of' Socialist International Women.

In 1908, in Chicago, at a conference of the American Socialist Party, Corinne Brown, who presided, due to the absence of a speaker, put into question the exploitation of workers working in low-wage, working time, gender discrimination and voting rights. It was called "Woman's Day" and from here in the United States was celebrated February 28, 1909 International Women's Day

The 900 was then a century of great challenges and achievements, from the point of view of rights and the women struggled with great difficulty to achieve important goals. Today the route of emancipation have led to significant levels of participation, even if our country is still lagging behind compared to other European countries over the years have invested in women's skills, their sense of ethics policy, on their ability to serve the community. But in Italy there is a tendency increasingly urgent in recent years by some television, newspapers and politics, to consider women a kind of "street furniture" or traded sex is really offensive, but above all there belongs.

We want to change, to reverse a course that offers models wrong, we want to do because we think of a shared world of values \u200b\u200bfor our young people and because we believe we can give a concrete contribution to the country's recovery.

In human rights there is still much to do for a civil society that defines too many women are victims of abuse and violence spread to various levels and in any social field, often at 'internal institutions that are commonly considered reassuring as the family or the workplace. We need to increase services, promote a culture of respect but also more appropriate, it should make people feel that there is an assumption in order to break what is commonly called the barrier of silence and fear.

Nelle società complesse come la nostra e tante altre, dove ormai si incrociano tante culture diverse è necessario individuare un terreno comune di dialogo e di ascolto perché sempre più donne possano essere protagoniste della propria storia e non in quanto appartenenti a qualcuno. Ecco perché l’8 marzo è un giorno speciale, per ricordare che le donne note e non, hanno segnato la storia e il progresso delle società, durante le guerre e in tempo di pace, lo hanno fatto con intelligenza, caparbietà e coraggio. Noi vogliamo essere degne di loro e protagoniste del nostro futuro, ecco perché le donne socialiste vogliono rinnovare la politica e vedere rispettati i diritti di donne e uomini secondo principi di giustizia, freedom and equal opportunity.