The United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women describes as unacceptable "any act of violence based on gender causes or is likely to cause physical damage , sexual or psychological, including threats of violence, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or private. While affirming the right to equality has long been an integral part of human rights, solo nel 1993, a Vienna, con questa carta il tema della violenza contro le donne entra nel dibattito internazionale. Sono passati 16 anni da quella chiara presa di posizione, ma la violenza nei confronti delle donne rimane tutt’ora presente nei Paesi industrializzati, come in quelli in via di sviluppo, senza differenza di ceto sociale o culturale.
In Italia, la percentuale di donne che hanno subito una violenza fisica o sessuale raggiunge il 32% e per la maggior parte l’artefice è il partner o l’ex partner. L’incidenza è maggiore per le donne separate e divorziate e nella quasi totalità dei casi le violenze non vengono denunciate. Ma non sono solo le forme fisiche della violenza to affect the female population: 2 million women undergo behavior persecutors (stalking) and 7 million are victims of psychological violence. To all this we must add more labor and sexual exploitation of immigrants in Europe, the phenomenon of trafficking for prostitution or forced labor. But in the third world, the situation is even worse abuses, abductions and murders take place in the total indifference of the authorities, who show absolutely non-compliant in taking the appropriate actions to not only prevent but also to investigate and punish those responsible for violence. Much of the girls did not have time to be born: it is "deleted" at the time of delivery.
The adolescent may be the "prize" to be reserved for combatants or a useful means of extracting information. During the Bosnian War were 20,000 women raped. During the civil war in Sierra Leone almost all the thousands of women and girls abducted by rebel forces during that conflict were raped and forced into prostitution. Not only that in Rwanda, scene of one of the most tragic massacres of the century, women raped, dying of AIDS. Even in the genocide in Darfur, thousands of women and girls were raped and infected with HIV. These facts, as other equally dramatic, such as female genital mutilation, discrimination against women to access to food, health and education, prenatal sex selection and the lack of birth registration could be the cause of the disproportion between male and female population that exists in certain regions of our planet. The origin of time, God wanted to give a companion to man.
The man decided to punish her, however, considering the cause of the loss of Eden. So, over the centuries, women were humiliated, raped, beaten, enslaved to have inherited from their mother is to blame, and the unfairness and immorality of Eve. It is "likely", however, that the real cause of this tragedy resident other reasons: the ruthlessness of the human race, perhaps in the characterization of hormonal, sexual and characterization of the difference in mechanisms of survival of the ancestral species. Of course, today, the man should be aware that, thanks to that apple taken with courage and curiosity, Eva has led to the conquest of knowledge.
Massimiliano Fanni Canelles
