The Federation of Protestant Women in Italy (Fdei) has once again produced the booklet “16 days to overcome violence”, to accompany the sixteen days of action from November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to December 10, Human Rights Day. "Women under attack, brave and rebel" is the title of the 2022 publication.
“While we were planning this notebook, arrived the news of the grim killing of the twenty-two-year-old girl Mahsa Amini in Iran due to a lock of hair sticking out of her veil hiab,” writes Claudia Angeletti, editor of the booklet, in the introduction. “The outrage that this crime and the subsequent bloody repressions that still continue as we write (31/10) prompted us to dedicate this issue to Iranian and Afghan women and their courageous rebellion against regimes inspired by religious fanaticism…. At the same time we realized that women and their rights are everywhere under attack by those who want to continue to manage the world with that patriarchal power.”
“One of our ways of standing by their side,” she adds, “is the graphic choice of reproducing on the various pages Shamsia Hassani’s drawings, which give visibility to their aspiration for freedom in a very valuable artistic form.”
This booklet edition retains its traditional and well-established style. In fact, every day you can find a theme, a Bible text, a brief commentary, a prayer, and a question to encourage the reflection.
“We want to hope that even our small prayers of each of the 16 days can set in motion the subversive energies of the unjust world order in which women are still the last, according to Jesus’s promise “the last ones will be first ones,” ends Angeletti her introduction.
This year the booklet “16 Days to Overcome Violence” is in Italian, English, German, and Spanish.
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As reported by Lina Ferrara, WM Director, Italian Union
Women under attack, Brave and Rebel
Booklet “16 Days to Overcome Violence” 2022.