Social / CSR in Italy
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ITALY, 2017/08/03
Italian coastguards seized a migrant rescue boat operated by a German aid group in the Mediterranean suspected of aiding illegal immigration from Libya, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.
Video showed the Iuventa, which is run by Jugend Rettet, arriving at the island of Lampedusa surrounded by several coastguard vessels next it was stopped at sea before dawn.
Police inspected the ship as any minute at this time as it docked and checked the crew passports. They later took charge of the boat and set sail for a larger port in Sicily.
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ITALY, 2017/07/08
Overwhelmed by refugees, Italy has threatened to bar boats carrying migrants from its ports. EU interior ministers have agreed to develop a code of conduct for rescue ships. They are refusing to show any additional solidarity.
In the last week of June alone, additional than 10,000 refugees from Africa arrived in Italy via the Mediterranean route; the total since the beginning of the year is 85,000. Rome's decision to close Italian ports to refugee ships was met with the approval of the EU interior ministers gathered in Estonia's capital, Tallinn. EU Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos urged bloc nations to help Italy, which can no longer handle the problem on its own. But solidarity has been exhausted. Nobody in Rome wants to take in any refugees or open any ports for the rescue boats.
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ITALY, 2016/06/11
This year’s seasonal springtime rise in temperatures is expected to deepen Europe’s refugee crisis by bringing about a significant rise in the number of harried migrants approaching its shores. Italy, with its long and porous coastline, remains part the majority severely affected nations; 15,000 people have sought refuge in the country in the completed three months— a year-upon-year increase of 43%.
As is the case throughout Europe, increased migration has spurred a resurgence of anti-migrant and racist sentiment. In northern Italy, militant right-wingers have torched Muslim prayer rooms in refugee camps and frequently agitate against foreigners.
More worryingly, such extremism is going mainstream. The ultra-nationalist Northern League political party, considered moribund as recently as 2013 at the same time as it hovered around 3-4% in the polls, has jolted back to life by riding the coattails of its popular leader— Matteo Salvini— and his almost daily dose of vituperative anti-migrant rhetoric. The party presently stands at 15% in the polls and fluctuates between third and fourth place nationally.
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GREECE, 2016/06/11
There is a current tendency to think of migrants as young men. Although in some cases this stereotype still holds authentic, patterns of migration are rapidly changing and additional must be done to ensure that vulnerable female migrants are protected, particularly in terms of their health.
Although before in the European “migrant crisis” the vast majority of those arriving were men (over 70% of irregular migrants into Greece and Italy in June 2015 were adult men), this gender gap has gradually decreased over the completed year and UNHCR estimates that men presently make up only around 40% of migrants arriving in the Mediterranean. Forced movements in particular seem to affect higher numbers of women and children. Indeed, over three quarters of Syrian refugees registered by UNHCR are either women or children under the age of 18.
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ITALY, 2016/06/11
LAST year, the news media focused intensely on the European refugee crisis. Some 800,000 people crossed the Mediterranean to Greece, a lot of fleeing wars we had a hand in creating, in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Each segment of their journey was carefully documented by thousands of reporters and photographers.
But there is an extra humanitarian crisis in Europe we have heard much less about: the roughly 200,000 migrants and refugees who left Africa for Italy since last year. This year alone, some 2,000 have died while making the voyage.
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ITALY, 2015/06/13
At least one hundred and twenty-one Gambian youths, all men, are to be evicted from the Italian city of Torino next the city council passed an order that all African refugees occupying the city illegally be evicted.
The Gambians are part additional than a thousand African refugees said to have been occupying the city illegally for about seven years.
A lot of of those who are facing eviction have before on applied to be granted refugee status in Italy, but were rejected.
Even those who were granted, just like those denied, have no better places to live than the places they were just evicted from.
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ITALY, 2015/05/13
The battle between secular and Islamist militias in Libya – inclunding the Islamic National group – is helping fuel a migrant exodus from the North African country, which has descended into chaos since the 2011 ouster of former leader Muammar Gaddafi.
EU foreign ministers were set to discuss the influx of migrants at a conference Monday in Luxembourg next the drowning of at least 700 people off the Libyan coast over the weekend. The disaster has shined a spotlight on a burgeoning EU immigration crisis that the UN said has claimed some 1,600 lives so far this year.
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AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20
The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.
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ITALY, 2014/02/15
Turkish chief of National Abdullah Gul on Tuesday night arrived in Rome to start a four-day visit to Italy while the political climate in Istanbul and Ankara is getting increasingly sour over Turkey's sweeping corruption scandal which involves the government of Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The co-founder and moderate face today of the Islamic Akp party, which has been ruling the country since 2002, he is increasingly distant from Erdogan, dubbed the 'sultan'. Ever since the beginning of the scandal, Gul has sought to bridge the distance between government and opposition - so far unsuccessfully.
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FRANCE, 2013/11/13
the next European Union summit on youth unemployment will take place in Rome "in the initial six months" of next year, Italian Premier Enrico Letta said Tuesday.
Speaking next an EU youth unemployment summit in Paris, the premier added that hosting the next summit in the Italian capital "is proof of confidence (in Italy) and a great opportunity for the country that we need to exploit to the maximum".
Diplomatic sources told ANSA that the summit will likely be held in April. Italy's youth unemployment is above 40% and rising, while it is close to 60% in Spain and Greece. The youth jobs summit will be the third in a series since the initial installment in Berlin in July.
