INTERSECTIONS OF STREETS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACE Wednesday 20 April 2016, hours 17, the PAN Via dei Mille, 60 Naples
(Conference Room III floor) with Gerard Lutte, Alex Zanotelli
and NIno Daniele Councillor for culture of the municipality of Naples .
The debate… …wants to “bringing” the experiences of two witnesses of our time in the front row for the ’ Human rights by comparing two roads for the affirmation of human rights culture and peace; a in Naples, Italy, Europe and the other in Guatemala, Central America, United by common problems and different ...
What to do? What kind of world we want to build? How to make common struggles for the assertion of rights? What role can perform the culture? And us? The shop wants to contribute with In WeBottega to the Peace collaborative project on the web between reality around the world for knowledge, rights, peace.
Alex Zanotelli, After years of commitment to the side of the underdogs of the different realities in Africa, lives in the neighborhood health care in Naples and fight against discrimination for human rights ’, social justice and peace.
The MOJOCA in guatemala city
these days (program) is located in Naples Gerard Lutte, dell ’ Developmental Psychology teacher already at the Sapienza University of Rome and founder of MOJOCA (Movement Jovenes de la Calle) of Guatemala City, movement which fights for the release of young people living on the street in one of the most violent in the world. The guiding principle is that guys have intelligence, skills and values necessary to leave the road, becoming accountable for their lives, join the society as citizens, directing their movement and contribute to a fairer society. Great attention is paid to gender equality and combating sexist violence, taking the view that girls who reject the power of money and men about women, can make an effective contribution to building a society more respectful of life and the dignity of each.
Many young people of street sleeping in abandoned houses, in several locations in groups, While in the "House 8 March ", they live seven single mothers, with nine children, significant experience of solidarity and an example for the resolution of social, non-institutionalised from below. In Italy the movement is followed by AMISTRADA, Network of friendship with girls and street children. In Belgium Mojoca-Belgique
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