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  • Italy Must Confront Its Past to Stave Off the Far-Right

    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.

  • Migration and Women’s Health: A Neglected Issue in Need of Action

    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.

  • The Child Migrants of Africa

    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.

  • Women Make Gains On Spanish Boards

    SPAIN, 2016/03/20 Women presently occupy nearly 20 % of board positions for the 35 public companies that make up Spain’s benchmark IBEX 35 index. The 2.5 %-point climb from last year brings Spain additional in line with Europe’s average of just over 21 %. Spain’s gains are even additional notable at the same time as considering that in 2010 women represented less than 11 % of the IBEX 35 board seats. This change is documented by the 4th annual statement on women on IBEX 35 boards of directors, produced by IESE’s International Center for Work and Family (ICWF) and Atrevia.

  • Europe's deal with Turkey fails to deter migrant attempts for now

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  • Portuguese Revolution Falls Far Short

    PORTUGAL, 2015/12/16 The austerity imposed on the Portuguese people by the One % has resulted in the election of a coalition government of socialists, communists, and a “left bloc.” In the 20th century, socialism and the fear of communism humanized Europe, but beginning with Margaret Thatcher the achievements of decades of social reforms have been rolled back throughout Europe as bought-and-paid for governments have given all preference to the One %. Public assets are being privatized, and social pensions and services are being reduced in order to make interest payments to private banks. At the same time as the recent Portuguese vote gave a majority to the anti-austerity bloc, the right-wing Portuguese president, Anibal Cavaco Silva, a creature of Washington and the large banks, announced that the leftwing would not be permitted to form a government, just as the senior British general announced that a Labour Government formed by Jeremy Corbyn would not be permitted to form. authentic to her word, Anibal reappointed the austerity prime minister, Passos Coelho. However, the unity of the socialists with the communists and the left bloc swept Coelho from office and the president had to recognize a new government.

  • Many Greek islands lie just off the coast of Turkey

    GERMANY, 2015/09/14 A wooden boat carrying some 130 refugees sank off the southern Aegean island of Farmakonisi on Sunday, with at least 34 people drowned, according to Greek media. Part those killed were four babies and 11 young children, the Athens News agency reported. National radio, citing the Greek coastguard, said that rescue teams had saved 68 people from the waters, and that 29 refugees had managed to swim to shore. Eight of the victims were reported to have been found by coastguard divers in the boat's hold. The coast guard said it was almost certainly the worst such incident in the region since the refugee crisis began.

  • More Than Hundred Gambians Face Eviction in Italy

    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.

  • Post-Gaddafi chaos in Libya fuels EU migrant crisis

    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.

  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    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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