Emma Bonino
Emma Bonino
Emma Bonino is an Italian politician, who most recently served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Previously she was a member of the European Parliament and a member of the Italian Senate. She served in the government of Italy as minister of international trade from 2006 to 2008. She is a leading member of the Italian Radicals, a political party which describes itself as a "liberale, liberista e libertario". She graduated in modern languages and literature from Bocconi University in Milan...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 March 1948
CountryItaly
The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.
I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.
My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.
Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.
I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.
I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect.
Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.
The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.
I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.
all the witness reports we do receive suggest that there are massacres going on, that people are being eliminated, that there is ethnic cleansing going on.
I invite him to keep control of himself and to represent Italy in a dignified way.
Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.