Maurizio Massari: The UN Reform Warrants “Gritty Realism”

Maurizio Massari: per riformare l’ONU serve “un bagno di realismo”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on House Floor: “Rep. Yoho Called Me a F—ing B—h…”

U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho on Wednesday delivered a half-hearted attempt at an apology on the House floor after a reporter heard him use a profane and derogatory language to describe U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after the two congress members had...

U.N.

Amid COVID-19 Constraints, UN Women’s Commission Meets to Push Gender Equality

byUN News

Despite constraints imposed by the new coronavirus disease, activists for gender equality gathered at UN Headquarters on Monday for the latest session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), to reinforce the message that women’s rights are human...

People

My Friend Needed Money for an Abortion. I Do Not Regret Giving It to Her

byIlaria Maroni

Miles and years away, last spring I visited one of the Planned Parenthood clinics in New York. Before security escorted me in, I was briefly harassed by the 2 or 3 protesters standing outside in the rain. They screamed at...

Flesh Out: Michela Occhipinti riflette sul corpo della donna e le pene della bellezza

Arts

With ‘Flesh Out’, Occhipinti Reflects on the Woman’s Body and the Price of Beauty

byTommaso Cartia

Lean, fat, tall, small, white, dark… which and how many are the forms of beauty that women have been called to interpret in the service of an aesthetic ideal dictated by tyrannical, patriarchal societies? In "Flesh Out" – Il corpo...

Indro Montanelli con quella sua “sposa bambina in affitto” non si merita una statua

News

Montanelli, with his “Rented Child Bride”, Does not Deserve a Statue in his Honor

byWolfgang Achtner

On March 8th, a statue of Indro Montanelli that has been standing for several years in a park in Milan, was smeared with washable pink paint by a feminist group. This act was carried out to commemorate an episode of...

News

Ivanka Trump is not a Feminist, but Should be

byChiara Trincia

The paradoxes of Ivanka Trump's W-GDP is not just that its funding will be pulled from other areas of USAID’s already-waning budget; It is also that the Initiative comes in the midst of otherwise unrelenting attacks on the rights and...

People

“Should I Go or Should I Stay?” Asia Argento’s Mission to Fight for Her Story

byGrace Russo Bullaro

Argento decided that “we need to keep the conversation going because this movement is the most important thing to have happened to women since the vote”. In short, she and many other women see this as a mission. But I...

Carlo e Camilla da New York alla riscossa per il Meridione d’Italia

People

Charles and Camilla of Bourbon from New York to the Revival of the South of Italy

byStefano Vaccara

Meeting at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan with the Head of the Royal House of Bourbon - Two Sicilies, former sovereign of Naples when it was the Capital of the kingdom of Two Sicilies. Politics have been part of the...

News

Leaders in the US: How Long Before There Is a Woman in the White House?

byGrace Russo Bullaro

March 8 is an important date to reflect on why the United States never had a woman as their Commander in Chief. One pundit suggested that if the US has not elected a woman president yet, it certainly isn’t for...