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Diritti Umani

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30 July 2019
The Foreign Ministry supports women and young migrants in Niger and Nigeria

The Foreign Ministry has arranged to make a 2.5-million-euro financing to UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, through the Africa Fund. UN Women’s projects will be carried out in Niger (for 1.5 million euros), through a targeted project to support women and young farmers in the Zinder […]

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30 July 2019
Farnesina-OIM Cooperation in favour of migrants in Tunisia

The Foreign Ministry financed a three-million-euro project through the Africa Fund to provide assistance to migrants in Tunisia, to be implemented through the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The project is subdivided into three sections: the first concerns maintaining and expanding the dwelling solutions available to migrants from Libya, especially in the south of the […]

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Press Releases
14 June 2019
Incontro del Sottosegretario Di Stefano con il Premio Nobel Nadia Murad

Il Sottosegretario agli Esteri e alla Cooperazione Internazionale, Manlio Di Stefano ha ricevuto oggi alla Farnesina, Nadia Murad, attivista yazida per i Diritti Umani e Premio Nobel Per la Pace 2018, in Italia per ritirare il “Premio Bellisario internazionale”. Il colloquio si è incentrato sulla situazione della minoranza yazida, originaria principalmente della regione del Sinjar, […]

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14 June 2019
Incontro del Sottosegretario Di Stefano con il Premio Nobel Nadia Murad

The Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Manlio Di Stefano, today received at the Farnesina, Nadia Murad, a Yazidi Human Rights activists and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2018, who is in Italy to pick up the “Premio Bellisario internazionale”. The conversation focused on the situation of the Yazidi minority mostly originating […]

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20 May 2019
Italy joined the United Nations Blue Heart Campaign against Human Trafficking

Italy joined the United Nations Blue Heart Campaign against Human Trafficking at the High-Level Event held in Vienna today concomitantly with the opening of the 28th Session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. Italy’s participation in the Blue Heart Campaign forms part of its broader contribution to combating human trafficking and protecting the victims of trafficking and of […]

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19 May 2019
UN letter on migrants: Minister Moavero tasks the Permanent Representative to the UN Office at Geneva to request a clarification

In relation to the letter dated 17 May that was sent to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, by experts of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Foreign Ministry specifies the following: Yesterday, Minister Moavero tasked Ambassador Cornado, the Italian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva, […]

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17 May 2019
International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT) – 17 May

On the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, Italy reaffirms its commitment at international level to fight all forms of discrimination, including the one based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Despite the progress made in the last few years, LGBTI people continue to suffer acts of discrimination and violence in many parts of […]

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17 May 2019
Minister Moavero in Helsinki to attend the 129th session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, is attending the 129th session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe held in Helsinki today. The meeting, hosted by the Finnish rotating Presidency, celebrates the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Strasburg-based Council of Europe of which Italy is a founding member. The […]

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6 May 2019
Protocollo Tecnico per l’apertura di corridoi umanitari

Si è tenuta venerdì 3 maggio al Palazzo del Viminale la cerimonia di firma di un nuovo Protocollo tecnico di validità biennale 2019-2020 per l’apertura di corridoi umanitari. Il Protocollo, che rinnova quello concluso nel gennaio 2017, ne estende l’applicazione, oltre che all’Etiopia, anche alla Giordania e al Niger. Nel quadro delle attività promosse per […]

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6 May 2019
Technical Protocol on opening humanitarian corridors

On Friday, 3 May, the Ministry of the Interior (in Palazzo del Viminale) hosted the signing ceremony of the new two-year Technical Protocol on Opening Humanitarian Corridors 2019-2020. The Protocol renews the one signed in January 2017, extending its application to Jordan and Niger in addition to Ethiopia. Within the framework of the activities promoted […]

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17 April 2019
Statement by Equal Rights Coalition on the situation in Brunei

The undersigned members of the Equal Rights Coalition (ERC) express profound dismay at the decision of Brunei to fully implement its revised Penal Code. As part of the full implementation which became effective on April 3, 2019, provisions have been introduced prescribing a range of penalties including amputation of limbs, whipping and stoning to death […]

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