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Also this year, November 25 is the Day against violence against women: that is why it is celebrated and where we are in Italy
The Day against violence against women was born in 1999 when the UN assembly decided to remember the terrible sacrifice of sisters Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal, brutally assassinated by agents of the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic
This important day is celebrated all over the world, but why and where does this date dedicated to the defense of women originate?
The Mirabal sisters: story of a murder
We are in 1960, 60 years ago, it is precisely on November 25 of that year the three girls were victims of a murder perpetrated by the men of the dictator of Santo Domingo, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.
Three o ‘clock woman, while they went to jail with their husbands, they were it stops by agents to then be beaten and thrown into a ravine, then trying to cover it all up by passing it off as a simple accident
The three women were named after Las Mariposas (the butterflies), three women who publicly protested against the dictatorship of their country and, therefore, eliminated them.
Also read: Chiara Ferragni announces “This battle we must live and fight”
Red shoes as symbol
Each battle or social event has a symbol and, also the World day against violence against women, has a symbol: red shoes.
These days in the squares throughout ItalyWe will find some abandoned red shoes, a symbol to remember an important social drama.
The hydra was turned into a symbol in 2012 by the Mexican artist Elina Chauvet with the work Red Shoes. The work was first seen in front of the Mexican consulate in El Paso, Texas, an artistic but concrete way of remembering the thousands of women murdered in the Mexican city of Juárez.
