(14 Feb 2024)
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Rome, Italy - 14 February 2024
1. Activists performing a dance during a flash mob to inform the public about violence against women
2. Close of activists dancing
3. Sign reading (Italian) “(Sex) Without consent is rape”
4. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Luisa Rizzitelli, Member of “One Billion Rising” campaign, Italy branch:
“The numbers of violence are dramatic, (for example) there was a femicide even this morning, yesterday there were two more in the same day, over a hundred women were killed in the past year. 'Differenza Donna' (Italian for ‘Difference Woman’ - an NGO helping women) which runs the ‘1522’ emergency phone number for women, received more than 13,000 calls last year.”
5. Close of dancers
6. Wide of flash mob
7. Close of protesters’ raised hands
8. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Luisa Rizzitelli, Member of “One Billion Rising” campaign, Italy branch:
“There is a word that cannot be combined with the word love, that word is violence. And this day (St. Valentine’s day) was chosen all over the world, it was chosen eleven years ago in fact, and it’s amazing that right now people are dancing also in India, in the United States, in northern Europe, in Africa and so on. It's something that manages to bring everyone together, it's a symbolic date, we wanted to make it symbolic against violence against women.”
9. Various of Trinità dei Monti Church and Spanish Steps
STORYLINE:
Dozens of activists gathered for a flash mob against gender violence on Wednesday in Rome.
A group of dancers performed on the iconic Spanish Steps in the Italian capital city on St. Valentine’s day to raise awareness on violence against women.
“There is a word that cannot be combined with the word love, that word is violence,” said Luisa Rizzitelli, from the Italian branch of 'One Billion Rising,’ an international movement born in 2013 on the initiative of playwright Eve Ensler, author of "The Vagina Monologues.”
“It's something that manages to bring everyone together, it's a symbolic date, we wanted to make it symbolic against violence against women,” she added.
The event was organized in various cities across Italy as well as other countries in the world by ‘One Billion Rising.'
Every year this campaign brings thousands of people together in over 100 squares around the world on Valentine's Day.
Other organizations took part in the event in Rome, among them the NGO ‘Differenza Donna’ (Italian for ‘Difference Woman’), and Amnesty International.
Rizzitelli says numbers are dramatic.
Since the beginning of this year, 15 women have already been killed in Italy, she told the Associated Press.
AP Video shot by Veronica Sauchelli
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