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Rome, Tor Vergata University: International Day of Women’s Rights – Conference with intervention of the Shirvani Sisters

Wednesday 8 March 2023 15:00

Roma, Università Tor Vergata, Auditorium Ennio Morricone - Macroarea di Lettere e Filosofia

Wednesday 8 March, at 3.00 pm, at the “Ennio Morricone” Auditorium of the Macroarea of Letters and Philosophy, the Single University Guarantee Committee will celebrate International Women’s Day with a dedicated event, in particular, to the non -violent struggle of the people Iranian.

After the institutional greetings by the magnificent rector, Nathan Levialdi Ghiron, by Prof. Barbara Martini, delegate for equal opportunities and inclusion, of the president of the Cug, Prof. Virginia Tancredi and the honorary president of the Cug, Prof.ssa Elisabetta Strickland, the stage will be animated by the contributions of the Iranian cultural mediator Dr. Parisa Nazari and prof. Massimo Papa, professor of Muslim law and Islamic countries.

«The non -violent struggle of the Iranian people for the first time puts the women’s rights at the center as an engine of an epochal change. A struggle that did not start on September 16, 2022 with the killing of Mahsa Jina Amini, a young Kurdish woman “guilty” of having committed the “crime” of being “bent”, but in the early 1900s with the Iranian constitutional movement »Parisa Nazari reminds us and continues” never as in recent decades the Iranian people and in particular Iranian women have invested in university education and never as today they are aware of their fundamental rights and the value of gender equality “. Professor Papa will give a legal reading key of the current revolts, focusing on the criminal code of the Islamic Republic and on the main cases of crime invoked by the regime to repress the various forms of dissent by highlighting the iniquity and partiality of the processes against young people defendants.

The event will conclude an artistic performance with dance, music and poetry by the students and Iranian students of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” committee.