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Mafai, Miriam
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4 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Racism is a disease
In the northern Italian city of Vicenza the regional parliament has passed a bill according to which teachers who are not originally from Vicenza will not be allowed to hold posts in school management. The new regulation is directed above all against teachers from southern Italy, the left-liberal daily La Repubblica complains: "In a country that - albeit without great enthusiasm - is about to celebrate the anniversary of its [state] unity (150 years in 2011) Vicenza is sending a different message the power of which should not be underestimated. The [right-wing populist party] Lega [Nord] … has set a precedent. … It would be a mistake to regard the Vicenza regulation as an isolated and unsurprising Lega case. The regulation is unfortunately only the latest example of a culture of apartheid or racism. … Racism is a disease that threatens ominously to spread. It no longer manifests itself only against the foreigner with a different skin colour. Now there is the danger that it will pit the people of our country against each other."
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Italy accepts to legislate on civil partnerships
The editorialist Miriam Mafai is delighted by the Italian government's decision to propose a law on civil partnerships that would stretch to include homosexuals. "This is finally good news. The decision taken yesterday to present a bill before January 31st to regulate the life of couples living in civil union, is good news on a general political level ... . But is also good news on the concrete level of civil rights. Men and women are asking with ever-increasing urgency, for absolute freedom of choice and respect of this choice. And at the same time, they want us to recognise their new freedom and their new rights".
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Social movements, » Italy
The place of women in politics
During a conference dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the women's vote in Italy, the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano publicly lamented the lack of women present at the State summit. The editorialist Miriam Mafai analyses the reasons behind this disaffection and poses the question of quotas. "Italian women are taking on more and more responsibilities. They are in the majority in universities and in numerous economical sectors ... . This is not the case in politics, a place of power and prestige, access to which is gained not by competition, but by cooptation. But all the assemblies are in the hands of men. The world of Italian politics is an almost entirely masculine world, closed to women ... . The choice of Ségolène Royal, made by the French Socialist Party, is a good sign for women, because she did not win thanks to a quota system, but through democratic selection."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Italy
The imprisonment of Holocaust denier David Irving
Editorial writer Miriam Mafai sees David Irving's jailing as symbolic. "The sentence passed by the Vienna correctional tribunal has put an end once and for all to the debate about the Holocaust and the extermination of the Jews during the Second World War, in the heart of our very civilised Europe. The Holocaust is an acknowledged fact and those who try to deny it are guilty. ... Most of us did not need this: numerous are those who have seen the barracks and cremation ovens at Auschwitz, numerous are those who have been overcome with emotion reading witnesses' accounts. ... This sentence is not only intended to resolve a historical debate, but also to strengthen the determination to prevent the revival of right-wing Nazi groups in Europe and reaffirm the inviolability of the State of Israel."
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