AFONSO CARBONAR

MAN FOR PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS Award

A man always sensitive and attentive to the problems, which affect the female world and children: violences.

A constant commitment designed to counter all the gender violences to the point of considering it as the main priority.

He has already been the responsible of some projects UNICIF and women’s empowerment during his previous experience of a diplomatic in Libya.

His arrival to the Brasilian Embassy in Rome has been marked by an innovative job towards prevention strategies of gender violence.

Initiatives which are inspired by the Pink Code and they provide for mobilisation campaigns of the Brasilian community and the formation of a team work among the consulate organs and the USL company Tuscany Sud Est.

On the occasion of the 8 March he has organized the first Brasilian week in Rome for women of the carioca community in order to identify and discuss the fundamental issues for the Brasilian women in Italy.