PAOLO PICCHIO

Man for Human Rights Award

A law does not return a child. It does not mend a shredded heart. Nor does it turn back the clock to when everything was, perhaps, still avoidable. Paolo Picchio knows this. Just as he knows that words hurt more than beatings. And that cyberbullying is a real phenomenon that takes lives and devastates others. But in the midst of the storm that tore his daughter away from him, Papa Picchio has found a new compass, pointing the way towards a horizon as necessary as that of digital security. And so, suffering becomes testimony, becomes a commitment and mission to generate awareness and culture among the younger generations who, today more than ever, deserve to be heard and not defined, protected from dangers as unknown as they are fatal. The Paolo's journey is an epochal and ongoing challenge, shared by many fellow travellers who fight unconditionally in the name of Carolina. So that, in the future, there will be no more deaf cries of pain to be heard.