Last December, Italy took an important step towards facilitating dignified death — it allowed citizens to write a living will. However, the Catholic Church is doing all it can to hinder it under the label of conscientious objection.
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Repubblica and l’Espresso, two of the main Italian newspapers, were attacked by a small group of neo-fascists. This is the latest in a series of such attacks. It is high time to apply the law and ban neo-fascist groups across Europe.
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A notorious Italian feminists group is sick of hearing that violence against women is a private matter or a one-time mistake. To them, the phenomenon is deeply rooted in our culture. They are planning a global women’s strike.
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Solving the problem of abuse by appealing to the Quran which, like the Bible, is an openly misogynist text, seems surreal. But when a newspaper with a long liberal tradition like The Independent supports such a claim, it becomes a problem.
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On October 22, an autonomy referendum was held in the rich Italian regions of Lombardy and Veneto: a true farce endorsed by all political parties that cost tax payers over 60 million EUR.
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Few people in Europe know...
One of Harvey Weinstein’s victims is Asia Argento, an Italian who has suffered unacceptable attacks of victim blaming in our country. But this level of discussion is incorrect: this is a matter of rights, not morals.
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Advocates of “freedom of choice” refer to alleged “vaccine damage”, which has never been scientifically proven. But mistrust in the “system” is such that it is not enough to appeal to logic and common sense.
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While Belgium is even discussing euthanasia for severely handicapped children, Italy is likely to remain, even on this, on the dark side of Europe.
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The Italian Parliament is discussing an end-of-life law that would ultimately...
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Sono caporedattrice di "MicroMega". Ho studiato filosofia e ho scritto "Non c'è fede che tenga. Manifesto laico contro il multiculturalismo" (Feltrinelli, 2018); "La Terra è rotonda. Kant, Kelsen e la prospettiva cosmopolitica" (Mimesis edizioni, 2015). Mi occupo principalmente di diritti civili, laicità e femminismo. Vivo a Francoforte sul Meno. Per contattarmi potete scrivere a cinziasciuto@animabella.it
Ich bin Journalistin und Autorin. Ich habe in Rom und Berlin Philosophie studiert und an der Sapienza Universität in Rom promoviert. Ich bin leitende Redakteurin bei der italienischen Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Politik „MicroMega“ und schreibe auch für einige deutschen Medien, u. a. "Die Tageszeitung" und "Faustkultur". Auf meinem Blog „animabella.it“ schreibe ich zu Säkularismus, Frauenrechten, Multikulturalismus und Fragen der Bioethik. Ich habe zwei Bücher geschrieben: "Die Fallen des Multikulturalismus. Laizität und Menschenrechte in einer vielfältigen Gesellschaft" (Rotpunktverlag, 2020; Originalausgabe auf Italienisch Feltrinelli 2018) und „La Terra è rotonda. Kant, Kelsen e la prospettiva cosmopolitica“ (Mimesis Edizioni, Milano 2015). Ich lebe mit meiner Familie in Frankfurt am Main.
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