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Press Releases
12 December 2020
Execution of Iranian journalist Ruhollah Zam

Italy unreservedly condemns the execution of the Iranian journalist Ruhollah Zam, which took place on 12 December 2020.  Capital punishment is an inhumane, cruel and degrading treatment and can be accepted under no circumstances. Italy reiterates its commitment to the gradual abolition of capital punishment and launches a strong appeal to Iran to apply a […]

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Press Releases
10 December 2020
International Human Rights Day

On International Human Rights Day, the Foreign Ministry confirmed the central role of the protection and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Italy’s international action. As a committed member of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations, our country is at the forefront of the protection of fundamental rights in all fields. […]

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Events
9 December 2020
Convention: UN Action and Human Rights

On the occasion of the International Human Rights Day, a Convention will be held on 10 and 11 December on UN Action to Promote and Defend Human Rights on the Organisation’s 75th anniversary. The Convention is organised by SIOI UNA-Italy, in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), and Messina University. […]

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Press Releases
16 November 2020
Sereni: “Protecting girl children in war zones”

“Children are our most precious resource and their rights must be protected everywhere and in all circumstances” said the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marina Sereni, in her opening address at the video link meeting of the International Conference of the Universities Network for Children in Armed Conflict (UNCAC), promoted by the University of Perugia […]

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Press Releases
4 November 2020
Council of Europe: Sereni – keep our guard up on human rights

Vice Minister Marina Sereni took part, by video conference, in the 130th Session of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers. Italy will hold the Committee’s Presidency for the semester from November 2021 to May 2022. “The Council of Europe,” said Ms Sereni, “engages in a task that is not always immediately visible to its […]

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Press Releases
28 October 2020
Del Re wraps up her visit to Mali and meets the Prime Minister

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re wraps up her visit to Mali with a meeting with the Prime Minister, Moctar Ouanee. The key issues touched on: the development, security and good governance in the country. “It was with joy and satisfaction that I announced to the Head of the Government the imminent opening of an Italian […]

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Press Releases
15 October 2020
Sereni: Italy committed to protecting children in war

An extremely positive talk took place between Vice Foreign Minister Marina Sereni and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict Virginia Gamba. The safeguarding and protection of children in the war zones of the planet is a vast humanitarian problem, made more serious today by the health emergency. Italy has made this […]

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Press Releases
13 October 2020
Sereni to the tenth anniversary of the birth of the International Commission against the Death Penalty

“The International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP) plays a crucial role in the mobilization of governments and people for the abolition of the death penalty, a priority theme in Italy’s international action for the affirmation of human rights”. This what stated by the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Marina Sereni, speaking in a video […]

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Press Releases
12 October 2020
International day against the death penalty

On the World and European Day against the Death Penalty celebrated today, Italy reiterates its strongest condemnation of the death penalty in all circumstances. Italy believes that the Death Penalty has no deterrent value concerning crime while making any judicial error dramatically irreversible. In occasion of the ministerial week of the 75th session of the […]

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Press Releases
24 September 2020
VM Del Re at the UN – Tireless effort, Italy for civil protection

Vice Minister Emanuela Del Re attended the ministerial meeting on “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P), held in the margins of the 75th United Nations General Assembly.  The meeting is particularly relevant in light of the 15th anniversary of the R2P principles, which were first formulated at the 2005 UN World Summit. As the Vice Minister stressed […]

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Press Releases
23 September 2020
UN. Sereni: “Italy committed for no discrimination against LGBTI

The Vice Minister Marina Sereni spoke in a videoconference at the event on the inclusion of LGBTI people, during the 75th UN General Assembly. The event, opened by an introductory speech by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Bachelet, aims to renew the commitment of States to take a stand against the violence […]

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