2020 CIDU Prize for Human Rights

The Foreign Ministry announces the first edition of the CIDU Prize for Human Rights destined to 7 candidates every year, among Institutions, Associations and individuals, who have particularly distinguished themselves for having contributed to increase the collective awareness of Human Rights in our country. Created on the initiative of Deputy Minister Emanuela Del Re, in […]

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CIDU Human Rights Award

Created on the initiative of Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re, in agreement with Minister Di Maio, the CIDU Prize for Human Rights will be awarded every year to 7 candidates, among Institutions, Associations and individuals, who have particularly distinguished themselves for having contributed to increase the collective awareness of Human Rights in our country. In […]

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Committee of Honour

Chairman: Honorable Emanuela Claudia Del Re, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Members: Senator Stefania Pucciarelli, President of the Extraordinary Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights of the Senate Honorable Iolanda Di Stasio, President of the Standing Committee on Human Rights of the Chamber of Deputies Plenipotentiary Minister Fabrizio Petri, […]

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Valentina Tafuni

Valentina Tafuni was born in Acquaviva delle Fonti, a town in the Murgia of Bari, on 20/07/1992. She discovered at a noticeably young age her interest in writing, politics, and the defence of social and civil rights. In 2011 she obtained her high school diploma at the “Ricciotto Canudo” of Gioia del Colle, after five […]

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Nicolò Govoni

Nicolò Govoni, born in 1993, is a writer, journalist and human rights activist from Cremona. He began his first volunteer mission at the age of twenty, when he left for a small village in India and for Dayavu Boy’s Home orphanage: here he has stayed for four years of his life, managing to change the […]

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Ernesto Olivero

Ernesto Olivero (Mercato San Severino, Salerno 1940) founded Sermig – Servizio Missionario Giovani (Young Missionary Service) – in Turin in 1964 together with his wife Maria (died in 2019) and a group of friends. He began a journey open to the world and particularly attentive to the needs of the poorest countries, with a “dream”: […]

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Embassy of Kyiv: III Scientific Meeting between Italy and Ukraine

“From 9 to June 11, 2020, on the Day of Italian Research in the World, the III Scientific Meeting between Italy and Ukraine will take place. The meeting is organised by the Embassy of Italy in Kyiv, the V.N. Karazin National University of Kharkiv and the National Institute of Astrophysics – INAF”, announced the Ambassador […]

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Mission to Berlin by Minister Luigi Di Maio

Today Minister Luigi Di Maio is in Berlin, where he will meet his German colleague Heiko Maas.  

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working on repatriations: 873 returnees in 48 hours, a total of 92,200

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is fully and constantly committed, through the Crisis Unit and Embassies and Consulates all over the world, to allow the repatriation of Italians stranded abroad. In the last two days 873 compatriots returned to Italy safely, embarked on 13 special flights from all over the world: European locations such as […]

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Di Stefano, communication campaign to support export Italy

An extraordinary communication campaign to relaunch the image of Italy and support Italian exports through the relaunch of the economic sectors most affected by Covid-19 emergency and, at the same time, give new impetus to the tourism sector. This is the objective of the market consultation launched to identify the most interesting projects on which […]

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Minister Di Maio co-chairs the Ministerial Meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Small Group

A videoconference was held this afternoon with the 32 members of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Small Group, co-chaired by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, and the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. The virtual meeting allowed those present to reaffirm their support for the Coalition’s efforts to […]

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Joint Communique by Ministers of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Small Group June 4, 2020

At the invitation of Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Luigi Di Maio and U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo, the Foreign Ministers of the Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh/ISIS Small Group met virtually today to reaffirm our shared determination to continue the fight against Daesh/ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and to create conditions for […]

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