8 March: Red benches to be installed in embassies - Tajani

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 8 - Foreign Minister and Deputy Premier Antonio Tajani said on International Women's Day on Friday that he had asked the foreign ministry to make arrangements for a red bench symbolizing the fight against gender-based violence including femicide to be installed in every Italian embassy worldwide.
    "Italy must mobilise in the front line to promote gender equality and women's emancipation, in particular to prevent and oppose all forms of violence and discrimination against women," said Tajani.
    "This is why red benches must also enter our ministry and every embassy," he continued, adding that they are "a symbol of the empty place left in society by a victim of femicide".
    "We must sit on those benches and give our support to women, against violence but also against discrimination," concluded Tajani. (ANSA).