“I know very well that there is fear, resistance and misunderstanding, but I assure you that emotional education is not harm, it is protection, it does not take anything from anyone, but adds something to everyone: awareness, respect and humanity”. As Gino Cecchettin, Giulia’s father and president of the Foundation that bears his daughter’s name, at a hearing at the parliamentary commission to investigate femicide two years after her murder. “A school that does not talk about compassion, respect, equality is a school that leaves its children alone in the face of a world that screams deviant messages,” Giulia’s father said in a trial that took place two years after his daughter’s murder.
ANSA Agency Ban on sex education in secondary schools overturned – News – Ansa.it League amendment, but parental consent required (ANSA) “I’m not a politician, I’m not an expert. I’m just a father who saw his life change forever two years ago. I lost my daughter, a girl full of life, curious, generous, able to see the good even when it wasn’t there. Since that day, my world stopped, but I also couldn’t stay silent,” added Gino Cecchettin during a hearing at the commission of inquiry into the female murder case in parliament which gave him applause. “Events like this change you forever, there is no future, in fact the future has been taken from you – he added -. A future made of hugs, memories and days that will no longer exist. Which I must somehow fill and therefore I choose to react and give meaning to the pain that risks destroying me. This is how Giulia Cecchettin’s foundation was born: not to foster the memory of pain, but to turn it into a commitmentbecause if we don’t change the culture that produces violence, we will continue to mourn another Julian, another family, another broken life.”
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“I’m not here to ask for more punishment or harsher laws. Justice is necessary, but it always happens later. I’m here to talk about what should come first, namely prevention and then education” said Gino Cecchettin. “Today gender violence is often portrayed as an emergency, but in fact it is not – he underlined -. This is a structural phenomenon rooted in our culture, in our language, in our models of relationships, in the stereotypes that we continue to inherit. Violence does not appear suddenly, it does not happen suddenly, it grows slowly in a society that too often condones, trivializes or remains silent”. As a foundation “we believe that the only lasting response to violence is to educate respect, empathy, mutual freedom and this can only happen in schools, places where people, not just students, are trained. It’s not about ideology, but about civilization – he explained – Talking about affective education means teaching children to know themselves, manage emotions, recognize boundaries and ask for and give consent. It means teaching that love is not possession, that power is not domination, that respect is the foundation of every relationship.”
ANSA Agency Emotions and sexuality education in schools: how it works across Europe – News – Ansa.it Sweden has been a pioneer since 1955. What UNESCO reports and UN guidelines (ANSA) state “Sometimes time passes slowly, other times it passes quickly. I can’t tell the time. But I spent these two years in pain.” As Gino Cecchettin, Giulia’s fatherin an interview with the newspaper La Stampa, stated that “seeking justice at all costs is instinctive. However there is a pain that can never be relieved, by any punishment. To persist, and rightly so, in seeking recognition for acts of abuse and cruelty means continuing to resist. But, for what? There is already a life sentence”, said Cecchettin in reference to the sentence imposed on Filippo Turetta. “So sometimes you need to have a little rationality, to decide to use your energy for what is really needed, and not for a confession that will just be an exercise in jurisprudence. Continuing the process for another two or three years will not produce anything concrete, in fact it will be very burdensome for me. I prefer to stay connected to things that create value.” Today’s society is “still patriarchal: news reports tell it”he said. “This is a concept rooted in language, sexist stereotypes, and societal mores. From a legislative standpoint, enough has been done, but our society’s education system is struggling to break away from the male-dominated model.” Two years after the murder, the student’s father observed: “It seems like only yesterday that I was able to talk to him, but two years have passed. Every day there is pain, sometimes very intense. But there is also happiness from living with him.”
ANSA Agency What is sextortion and doxing? Only 4 out of 10 Italians know this – News – Ansa.it These phenomena are a representation of digital gender violence which is also widespread in the world of work. The second chapter of the policy “From silence to action” is presented, an intervention plan created by Valore D and PersensoNegato in collaboration with the Una Nuovi e Centomila Foundation (ANSA) ‘One minute of noise for Giulia, for everyone’. The student network Udu Padova announced on Instagram a promise “to make some noise” on Tuesday 11 November at 5 pm in Piazza Portello, Padua. “Two years have passed since the murder of the woman Giulia Cecchettin, two years after the news that shook our student community and the whole of Italy. Our anger has not stopped, just as the tally of women killed after Giulia at the hands of men has not stopped. We are angry and will be angry at every news about every murdered woman” said the students of Udu Padova.
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