Nov. 12 – For the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, scheduled for November 25, Berlin’s Comites is promoting an event to discuss and reflect on the status of women, the successes and those goals yet to be achieved in terms of freedom, violence and gender equality. The discussion stems from available data, which describes a situation in both Italy and Germany that doesn’t guarantee safety for women, a structural phenomenon that involves almost all aspects of everyday life and different forms of violence. Lawyer Seyran Ateş and psychiatrist Luciana Degano will shed let on the situation in a meeting scheduled for Wednesday, November 19 at 6:30pm at the Werkstatt der Kulturen. The debate will follow the Berlin premiere of the show “Malamorenò,” which sees the actress, Nicoletta Maragno, engage in a series of monologues that deal with different stories of violence against women. Seyran Ateş is a German-Turkish Kurd lawyer and author who has received several awards. As a lawyer, she deals mainly with criminal and family law, and is working to improve women’s rights. She was part of the “Deutschen Islamkonferenz” and participated in the summit on the integration of the Federal Government. Luciana Degano, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, studied in Trieste, Berlin and London. Since 2000, she lives and works between Berlin and Potsdam, where she is responsible for a rehabilitation service. She works with various educational institutions, schools, colleges and universities in the field of psychiatry and mental health. (PO / Paf)
