“Remembering is easy for those who have a memory, forgetting is difficult for those who have a heart.” (GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ)

Today is International Women's Day! (March 8), nothing better than “reviving memory”… as Benedetto Croce said “Historical culture has the objective of keeping alive the conscience that human society has of its own past, or rather, of its present, or rather, of herself.” “The trafficking of women for prostitution is one of the most profitable businesses in the world, along with drugs and weapons. And it is the fastest growing in the entire global economy. Every year, millions of women are sold and forced into prostitution, in conditions of extreme inhumanity and violence. Until five years ago, these women came almost exclusively from Asia and South America, but today they are, in increasing numbers, Slavs from the countries of ex-communist Eastern Europe. Ukraine is one of the main origins of this trafficking, which is not only profitable but also one of the safest in the world: the legislation and the police are not prepared to fight the mafias that dominate it, and no network has yet been dismantled. Ukraine is a proud but isolated and traditionalist country, rich but living in poverty, with a cultured but uninformed and innocent population. A country of dreamy women who live on unrealizable dreams. An authentic hotbed for the international trafficking of prostitution.”(https://www.publico.pt/2001/10/22/jornal/era-uma-vez-na-ucrania-163300) “It is in our hands to completely erase from our memory misfortunes and unpleasant memories.” (CICERO)