International Women’s Day – An Intergenerational Challenge

International Women’s Day is an important moment to reflect on how each of us, individuals, groups and organizations at various levels, can support the full equality and dignity of rights and expectations between men and women. 2020 will be an important year because, twenty-five years after its adoption, we will be able to take stock of the commitments made in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which has established strategic objectives to achieve gender equality in 12 areas, including: women and the economy, violence against women, women and the environment and women in leadership roles. Signed in 1995, today there is a need to set concrete actions for the future, in the name of the new global challenges launched by sustainability, new forms of global emergencies and the wars still underway. We cannot deny, in fact, that despite some progress, real change has been strangely slow and still does not involve all the girls and women in the world who continue to be too often undervalued, underemployed if not exploited and are little involved in family or community decisions. The theme launched by the United Nations “I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights” expresses the need to unite and involve, in this path towards full dignity and equality, different generations. In all its projects, AMU places among its objectives the strengthening of female participation in community life, through support for training, work and courses on self-awareness, one’s own abilities and one’s rights.