On Tuesday 25 November 2025, at 9 am, the Museo del Presente in Rende will host the public seminar promoted by the “Emozioniamoci” school network and the National Association of Electrical Women of Cosenza (ANDE), on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The initiative, sponsored by the Municipality of Rende, will feature male and female students, male and female students who will intervene with reflections, questions, readings and original contributions.
The seminar will open with institutional greetings from the Councilor for Public Education of the Municipality of Rende Stefania Belvedere and the Mayor of Montalto Uffugo Biagio Antonio Faragalli. This will be followed by interventions by experts and representatives of equality bodies: Professor Giovanna Vingelli, delegate of the Rector for Equal Opportunities (UNICAL), lawyer Fabrizio Loizzo, Equal Opportunities Committee of the Cosenza Bar Association and magistrate Donatella Donato. The center of the meeting will be the dialogue with the schools. The young people of the “Emozioniamoci” network will recite poems by Annalina Paradiso, read passages on the theme and give voice to emotions, considerations and questions. The journalist Giovanna Giulia Bergantin, president of ANDE Cosenza, will moderate the comparison between generations and knowledge.
In 2025, data on gender violence in Italy confirm a structural emergency: feminicides, abuse and cultural justifications persist. Education remains the only effective antidote. Gender violence is not a private matter, but a social plague that runs through every context: family, school, digital, urban. The numbers speak clearly. According to the Non Una Di Meno national observatory, in 2025 there were 76 feminicides and 67 attempted feminicides, as well as numerous violence-induced suicides. Among the victims, Martina Carbonaro, just 14 years old, a symbol of how violence can strike already in adolescence. The names of Giulia Cecchettin and Giulia Tramontano remain engraved in the collective conscience, testimony to tragedies that cannot be forgotten. These data do not just describe incidents, but a cultural structure that perpetuates inequalities and abuse. This is why the day against violence against women, established by the UN in 1999 in memory of the Mirabal sisters, cannot be just a commemoration. It must become a collective cry: enough violence. And it must start from schools. Affective education, respect for consensus, the deconstruction of gender stereotypes are not accessories, but fundamental prevention tools. We need a structured national plan that involves teachers, families, male and female students. We need to talk about emotions, boundaries, healthy relationships. We need to do it now. The seminar on November 25th at the Museo del Presente in Rende, promoted by ANDE Cosenza and the “Emozioniamoci” network, goes in this direction: giving a voice to young people. Because change is not imposed, it is built. And we build together.
