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Diritti Umani

Diplomatic Network
27 November 2024
Canberra, Ambassador Crudele inaugurates red-painted bench

The Italian Embassy in Canberra is participating in the ‘Orange the World: End Violence against Women Now!’ campaign, promoted by Un Women. Ambassador Paolo Crudele inaugurated a red-painted bench to show the commitment to fight gender-based violence on this important international day. “It is my pleasure and honour to inaugurate on this symbolic date the red […]

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Diplomatic Network
21 November 2024
Holy See – Borromeo Palace lit up in red

The Italian Embassy to the Holy See has once again this year joined “Red Week”, the initiative promoted by the Pontifical Foundation “Aid to the Church in Need” to raise awareness of religious persecution. On Wednesday 20 November, to mark Red Wednesday, Palazzo Borromeo was lit up in red against religious freedom violations and in […]

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In detail
23 October 2024
Tajani – Everyone involved in the Pescara G7 is committed to peace in the Middle East

Yesterday, the Italian government opened the proceedings of the “G7 Development” in Pescara with a “Humanitarian Conference” focusing on the main emergency the Mediterranean is currently facing, i.e. the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, which are dramatically affecting people whose lives have been at stake for too long. Israeli, Lebanese, Palestinian and Syrian citizens have […]

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Interviews
23 October 2024
Tajani – Everyone involved in the Pescara G7 is committed to peace in the Middle East (Il Mattino)

Yesterday, the Italian government opened the proceedings of the “G7 Development” in Pescara with a “Humanitarian Conference” focusing on the main emergency the Mediterranean is currently facing, i.e. the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, which are dramatically affecting people whose lives have been at stake for too long. Israeli, Lebanese, Palestinian and Syrian citizens have […]

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Press Releases
14 October 2024
Undersecretary of State Silli received UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights: focus on the situation in the Middle East and Italian commitment against the death penalty

Today Undersecretary of State Giorgio Silli received the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Nada Al-Nashif, at the Foreign Ministry, on the occasion of her visit to Italy to participate in the G7 Ministerial Meeting on “Inclusion and Disability”, scheduled for 14 and 15 October in the Umbria region. Undersecretary Silli stated. “‘Italy strongly […]

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Press Releases
10 October 2024
World and European Day against the Death Penalty (10 October 2024)

In celebration of the World and European Day against the Death Penalty, Italy reaffirms its firmest and unconditional opposition to capital punishment. This is a cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment that negates human dignity and has no added value in terms of security and crime deterrence, while it renders every miscarriage of justice fatally irreversible. […]

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Diplomatic Network
27 September 2024
New York, event to remember the heroes of the holocaust

The Ambassador of Italy to the United States, Mariangela Zappia, hosted today at the Italian Consulate General in New York the event “Forgotten Heroes of the Holocaust,” to honor 60 diplomats – including 6 Italians – for their aid to Jews persecuted by the Nazis during the Second World War. “The extraordinary example of these […]

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Diplomatic Network
30 August 2024
Mali: Ambassador Dejak and the Minister of Malians Abroad launch the second phase of the Migrant Assistance Centre project in Gao

The Italian Ambassador to Mali, Stefano A. Dejak, met with the Minister of Malians Abroad, Moussa ag Attaher, to jointly launch the second phase of a project aimed at protecting and assisting migrants, centred around the operationalisation of the Migrant Centre built in Gao, in northern Mali. Building on the one million euros invested by […]

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Press Releases
26 August 2024
Afghanistan: Statement of the High Representative on behalf of the EU on latest restrictions imposed by the Taliban on the people

The European Union is appalled by the decree recently issued by the Taliban, the so-called Law on Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The decree confirms and extends severe restrictions on the life of Afghans imposed by the Taliban, including imposed dress codes, notably ordering women to cover their bodies and faces in public. […]

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Diplomatic Network
25 June 2024
UN, Global Principles for Information Integrity

The United Nations has launched for the first time the “Global Principles for Information Integrity” with the aim of promoting good practices in the field of public information and combating hate speech, misinformation and disinformation. The document, drafted – inter alia – in cooperation with UNESCO and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for […]

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Diplomatic Network
21 June 2024
Paris – “Red Bench” at the Embassy to say “enough” to violence and discrimination against women

While attending the Global Forum for Vaccine Sovereignty and Innovation in Paris, Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Antonio Tajani stopped in the garden of the Italian Embassy’s historic headquarters in front of the red bench installed there as a symbol of the fight on violence against women. The […]

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