Emma Bonino, Italian Abortion and Divorce Rights Leader, Dies at 78
The longtime civil rights campaigner helped legalize abortion and divorce in Italy and remained active in politics into her 70s.
- On Friday, September 11, Italian rights campaigner and +Europa founder Emma Bonino died at age 78, her party announced.
- Bonino rose to prominence in the 1970s after co-founding the Centre for Information, Sterilisation and Abortion , where she performed illegal abortions to challenge Italian laws.
- As a European Commissioner from 1994 to 1999, she managed humanitarian aid and fisheries; her work also spanned human rights advocacy in the Balkans and Afghanistan.
- Despite her abortion advocacy, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said their 'backgrounds and perspectives differed, that never prevented me from acknowledging her significance.' Pope Francis visited her home in November 2024.
- The +Europa party she founded in 2017 struggled to gain electoral traction, failing to win seats in the 2019 and 2024 European parliamentary elections while securing only two seats in 2022 national polls.
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Diario de Cádiz
The death of Emma Bonino hurts. It was small, but it honored her name of Germanic origin: whole, universal, a powerful force. Her disappearance causes nostalgia, because Europe is no longer what it was. But the panegyrists towards the former European commissioner and former Italian minister raise melancholy for what the EU is not. The rise of nationalist populisms goes in the opposite direction to what the Italian Radical Party represented, whic…
Italian activist Emma Bonino dies at age 78
A grief in European politics after the death of Emma Bonino, one of the important figures of Italian politics and of European construction. The former European Commissioner and Foreign Minister of Italy died at the age of 78. The announcement was made on Friday of the political formation that led, +Europe.
Italian political history, former Foreign Minister and European Commissioner, Emma Bonino stood out in the defense of human rights, women's rights and civil liberties, having been one of the main voices in the fight for the legalization of abortion in Italy.
Feminist, human rights defender, was Member, MEP, canciler and European Commissioner; weighs in Italy and the EU
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