(ANSA) – MILAN, FEBRUARY 19 – A flashmob in Piazza Duomo in Milan to say stop to all forms of violence and discrimination against women and LGBTQ + people and to present the claims in view of the strike of March 8, the day of women’s day. It is the initiative promoted by the feminist collective ‘Non una di less’ whose activists showed up in Piazza Duomo with large pink balloons that they pierced during the flashmob ‘We’ll pierce this patriarchy’. The event was symbolically held in Piazza Duomo, as the activists explained, which on New Year’s Eve was the scene of violence against a group of girls. During the flashmob, signs were displayed with some data on violence against women in Italy: 118 women were killed in 2021, 68 were killed by their husband, partner or ex, femicides rose by 8% in 2021, blackmail and threats to LGBTQ + people have gone from 11 to 28%. Female unemployment in Italy is 50% and one in two women does not work. For this reason the activists are asking and will ask, also in view of the strike of 8 March, “more funds for the anti-violence centers, the introduction of a sexual education oriented to consensus and differences in all schools – explained Elena, one of the activists of Non una di less -, an income of self-determination to be able to get out of any situation of violence at home and in the workplace, because according to a self-investigation we are conducting, there are still too many women who are forced to leave their jobs working for this “. (HANDLE).
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