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(ANSAmed) - ROME, JUNE 12 - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has today said that in the Arab and Islamic worlds women are "like a piece of furniture that you can change whenever you like and nobody will ask why you have done it". Gaddafi was speaking at a meeting with about a thousand women from the world of business, institutions and politics at the Parco delle Musica in Rome, with Italy's Minister for Equal Opportunities, Mara Carfagna. "There is a need for a women's revolution in the world, based on a cultural revolution", said Gaddafi. With regard to Italy, "if the family continues to be treated as it is now", with the number of young people falling and the number of pensioners on the rise, "could disappear in 2050", said the colonel, quoting an unidentified report which should raise awareness of the need to "take care of the family and of women". Gaddafi moved on to speak about child soldiers, saying that the family is so inexistent in Africa that "children are lost and picked up by warriors" who give them rifles and some food. This, he said, is the way that children and adolescents are recruited into the paramilitary outfits active in many conflicts in Africa, particularly around the Great Lakes and in the Horn of Africa. "I have presented a plan to the African Union", added Gaddafi, "because in Africa the family should be respected, marriage must be based on a contract, divorce must be consensual and documented and those who bring children into the world must be responsible for them". (ANSAmed).