THE EXHIBITION IN EUROPE
Our mission is to restore justice for victims of abuse in Europe

STRASBOURGH AT PALAIS DE LA EUROPE

FROM 10 OF OCTOBER

SPAIN

FROM OCTOBER IN MADRID, BILBAO AND BARCELONA

SOON ALL THE INFORMATIONS

ITALY - MILAN

AT EMERGENCY ONLUS ONG PLACE

Soon the official information

From Italy to Sweden, from Romania to Portugal: In recent months, portraits and video interview of nearly 100 victims of child abuse have been collected throughout Europe. Never has the dimension of the problem been captured in this way.
Photos and videos from award-winning journalist Simone Padovani documenting the injustices now give the victims a voice. The exhibition «Shame - European Stories» will open during the Biennale of Venice. The exhibition, a tool for creating awareness in citizen, is under the patronage of the Council of Europe and has been launched by Guido Fluri Foundation, will be travel around Europe in order to increase the awareness in all the european citizen and institutions with the final goal of changing the law in terms of protection of minors.

Europe can restore a piece of justice

The people who had their pictures taken for the exhibition “Shame – European Stories” bear witness. They tell of the abuse they have experienced. They tell of the abuse they had to endure. Their stories are staggering. So much suffering has been inflicted. In our society.

The actual data from UN say that 1 person every 5 in Europe has suffered or is suffering of abuses or mistreatments, sexual, phisycal or psycological. The problem is huge and it is becaming bigger than ever. It is our responsability to protect the next generations.

In the member countries of the Council of Europe, children must be able to benefit from all the human rights and fundamental freedoms protected by the European Convention on Human Rights, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and other international and European instruments on human-civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights.

LUISELLA PAVAN-WOOLFE

DIRECTOR OF THE

COUNCIL OF EUROPE IN ITALY

The exhibition «Shame - European Stories» should open our eyes and pave the way for a just solution in Europe. The Council of Europe’s support for this exhibition is not only honorable, but above all, it is meaningful. It shows that Europe, as a community of values, wants change. The victims, those affected, the survivors – they should all receive justice in their lifetime.

GUIDO FLURI

President of the Guido Fluri Foundation

We need to change things now and take action, with small gestures, by really listening to those around us and those crossing our lives, and taking a stand and asking forsolutions from the stakeholders, the governments, and the European Community.

SIMONE PADOVANI

Photographer of the Exhibition

When Simone Padovani told us about the Guido Fluri Foundation’s exhibition project
«Shame – European Stories», we immediately assured him of our collaboration,
convinced that there are too many cases in which children are victims of unprecedented violence.

MARA RUMIZ

Director of the EMERGY ONG ONLUS

Venice

VIEW ALL THE VIDEO INTERVIEWS

LEARN ABOUT THE STORIES OF ABUSE IN EACH EUROPEAN COUNTRY

Click on the link below to select the countries where the signature campaigns are started and to contribute in changing the european laws in terms of protection of minors.

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