Italy working with Unicef against child mortality

Italy is working on behalf of children and combating child mortality throughout the world. Our country has jointed UNICEF’s “A Promise Renewed” project to become the 128th country making a renewed effort to hasten the decline of child and maternal mortality. A further aim is to help even more countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals […]

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Human Rights – Italian Yearbook presented. Their protection is an Italian foreign policy priority, says Terzi

“Italy considers the protection and promotion of the fundamental rights to be an essential part of its foreign policy […] because wholesale violations of human rights create instability and give rise to conflicts, and conflicts crush people’s dignity underfoot”. These were the words of Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi, presenting the Italian Human Rights Yearbook 2012 […]

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Joint exhibition in Canton for Italian language week

Two artists, one Chinese and one Italian, together in a joint exhibition. This is the cultural exchange behind “Il Racconto”, which is showing works by the Chinese painter Ben Chen and the Italian Danilo Giannoni at Canton’s Kui Garden Gallery until 9 October 2012. Read more, in Italian.

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Italia con UNICEF contro mortalita’ infantile (in translation)

L’Italia dalla parte dei bambini contro la mortalità infantile nel mondo: il nostro Paese ha aderito all’iniziativa dell’Unicef “A Promise Renewed”, diventando il 128esimo Paese a impegnarsi con rinnovato sforzo per accelerare il declino della mortalità infantile e materna e aiutare ancora più Paesi a raggiungere gli obiettivi di sviluppo del Millennio entro il 2015. […]

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(Please check against text as delivered) Presidente Pietro Marcenaro, Professor Marco Mascia, Professori e cari studenti,Signore e Signori, Sono molto lieto di darvi il benvenuto alla Farnesina in occasione della presentazione dell’edizione 2012 de “L’Annuario Italiano dei Diritti Umani”, pubblicato del Centro interdipartimentale sui diritti umani istituito dall’Università di Padova nel 1982. La presentazione di […]

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I jihadisti hanno cercato l’occasione per rientrare in gioco e provare a “scippare” i risultati delle rivolte che hanno segnato la “Primavera araba”. Non dobbiamo cadere nella loro trappola: l’Europa deve rafforzare il sostegno alle leadership di quei Paesi, come l’Egitto, la Tunisia, la Libia, che hanno avviato un processo di stabilizzazione democratica». A sostenerlo […]

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Syria: Refugee emergency. Boniver’s mission to Lebanon and Jordan

“One thousand Syrian refugees each day are now fleeing to Lebanon from the violence in their country. A constant flow that is expected to bring the total number of refugees to at least 120,000, with all the risks that this ‘most serious humanitarian emergency’ entails for Lebanon’s fragile domestic equilibria. The point was underscored by […]

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Turin bids to host World Chamber Congress

The city of Turin is competing with Belfast, Geneva and Liverpool to host the World Chambers Congress in 2015. The bid was submitted during the visit to Turkey by the Mayor of Turin, Piero Fassino, who visited Izmir and Istanbul. The mission was oranised with support from the Italian Embassy and Consulates in Turkey and […]

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Expo Venlo: award for italian pavilion

Italy has won an award for the best-designed pavilion at the Floriade 2012 Expo in Venlo, along with Azerbaijan, Belgium and Spain. In the view of the Commissioner General for the Expo, Gabor, the award was given for the way our pavilion harmonised perfectly with the Floriade site as a whole. Read more, in Italian.

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(Please check against text as delivered) Vorrei complimentarmi con tutti i promotori di questa splendida iniziativa. Grazie in particolare al sostegno di Finmeccanica e alle intelligenze dello IAI, dell’ISPI e di Nomisma che hanno scritto il rapporto che avete appena illustrato. Sono molto lieto di partecipare a questo evento per due motivi: perché il rapporto […]

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Press notice detail

A reminder that Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi will present the 2012 edition of the Italian Human Rights Yearbook at the Foreign Ministry on Thursday 20 September 2012, at 09.30. The Yearbook is produced by the “Inter-Departmental Centre for Human Rights” at the University of Padua. It covers the initiatives taken by Italy in all the […]

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Belgrade: mathematical physics at the embassy

The 7th international conference on recent developments in mathematical physics, organised by the University of Belgrade’s Institute of Physics, is taking place in Belgrade. The initiative was co-funded by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste and the Serbian Ministry for Education, science and Technological Development with support from the Science […]

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