The legend begins with Hades, who kidnap the goddess of spring to take her alongside to the profundity of the infra world. When Persephone was taken into hell, the flowers fell into a deep sadness and eventually died. Life on earth became paralyzed, meanwhile Demeter the desolated mother looked for her lost child.
Time passed, and Persephone’s mother kept looking for her, sadly without any success. At the same time earth slowly grew sterile. … If she came back, flowers would be reborn full of the joy that the return of Persephone would cause; meanwhile they grief with deep sorrow covered with cold winter’s snow…
Femicide is imbedded in gender violence, targeting girls and women. It can be explained as a series of crimes that emerge from inequality and discrimination, in relation to gender power. This gender violence os one of the most prevailing human rights violations worldwide. It knows no frontiers, not nacional, economic or religious. Statistics say that one out of three women worldwide will suffer from fiscal or sexual abuse throughout her life.
Reducing violence against women has become one of the priorities of development policies and humanitarian action plans of all countries, we need a huge effort for these rights for women and girls to prevail so they can live a life free from violence.
In sense this proposal evokes not forgetting, not eluding, and not avoiding the violent realities that corrode our lives, that infect our ideals, that in-cage our principals, but above all illuminate the cause of all victims, and why not, also uncovering societies alibis that day to day are created to cover the cruel reality.
The nymph that accompanied Persefone that day, observed everything that happened to Perséfone, it is believed that this happens in an unattached way without intervening in a y way. This is why the nymph where punished turned into mermaids that eternity grief.