{"id":17002,"date":"2013-05-16T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2013\/05\/20130516_bonino_strasburgo_diritti-2\/"},"modified":"2013-05-16T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T15:39:00","slug":"20130516_bonino_strasburgo_diritti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2013\/05\/20130516_bonino_strasburgo_diritti\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonino in Strasbourg &#8211; New start for Italy on human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>A \u201cnew start\u201d, \u201cwithout giving in or compromising\u201d: Italy intends to \u201cinvert the trend\u201d after the Court of Human Rights\u2019 ruling on its slowness of justice, lack of respect for the right to a defence and prison conditions. This was Minister for Foreign Affairs\u2019 Emma Bonino\u2019s pledge before the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe meeting in Strasbourg to discuss reforms.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>An Italian foreign minister had not attended the meeting since 2000<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>With regard to prisons, an issue which has occupied Bonino for years now, she underscored that it was necessary to undertake \u201ccourageous initiatives\u201d in order to \u201cput an end to a situation that undermines the country\u2019s credibility\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The head of Italian diplomacy (the last Italian foreign minister to attend the Committee of Ministers meeting was Lamberto Dini in 2000) agreed with Council of Europe Secretary General Thornbjorn Jagland on three priority areas of intervention \u2013 democracy, human rights and the rule of law \u2013 placing particular emphasis on the importance of programmes that build a true culture of democratic institutions.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Alarm for discrimination fomented by populist and xenophobic movements<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Minister Bonino took advantage of the ministerial meeting \u2013 during which the Presidency changed hands from Andorra to Armenia \u2013 to sound the alarm on the growing intolerance and serious discrimination fomented by populist and xenophobic movements. After her address, the minister met with Jagland and Gabriella Battaini Dragoni, Deputy Secretary of the Council of Europe,to which Italy is the second-ranked contributing member.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u201cnew start\u201d, \u201cwithout giving in or compromising\u201d: Italy intends to \u201cinvert the trend\u201d after the Court of Human Rights\u2019 ruling on its slowness of justice, lack of respect for the right to a defence and prison conditions. This was Minister for Foreign Affairs\u2019 Emma Bonino\u2019s pledge before the Committee of Ministers of the Council [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,9,76],"class_list":["post-17002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diritti-umani","tag-europa","tag-ministri-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}