Archive for the ‘Italy’ Category
Par Nicolas J. Beger, directeur du Bureau des institutions européennes, Amnesty International
La chaleur qui règne sur la petite île de Lampedusa, à la limite la plus méridionale de l’Italie, est torride. Quelles chances de survie mon propre petit garçon de trois aurait-il eu dans cette chaleur [...]
By Dr. Nicolas J. Beger, Director, European Institutions Office, Amnesty International
The heat in Lampedusa, a small island at Italy’s most southern frontier, is scorching. What chance would my own 3-year-old son have had to survive in this heat if he was stranded on the shore, on [...]
Par Fernando Vasco Chironda, coordonnateur de campagne, section italienne d’Amnesty International
Le site de Tor de’ Cenci, aux abords de la capitale italienne, n’est pas le genre d’endroit où l’on aimerait que ses enfants grandissent, et les habitants sont les premiers à le reconnaître.
Un tas de détritus vous accueille à l’entrée et les maisons sont un [...]
By Matteo de Bellis, Campaigner for Amnesty International’s EU team
With summer holidays upon them, many school-children in Rome are about to enjoy a few months respite from study.
But for Roma children living in the Tor de’ Cenci camp, on the city’s southern outskirts, the last day of school may instead bring the [...]
(Brussels) – NATO and its member states should provide information to help clarify the chain of events that led to the death of 63 boat migrants in the Mediterranean a year ago, a coalition of human rights groups said in joint letters to NATO and member states released today.
By Matteo de Bellis, Europe Campaigner at Amnesty International
“We know we have to leave because of the construction works, but they should give us a place to go, not just leave us in the street.”
Giovanni speaks to me while standing in front of a line of shacks, grouped in an area as [...]
(Brussels) – The European Union and member governments proved unwilling to tackle human rights abuse at home during 2011, even as they proclaimed the issue’s importance in inspiring the Arab Spring, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2012.
(Brussels) – European Union (EU) heads of state meeting in Brussels later this week should put human rights at the heart of EU migration and asylum policy, Human Rights Watch said today.
Dear Minister Frattini,
We are writing in relation to Italy’s election to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Human Rights Watch looks forward to working with Italy at the council to further the human rights of people around the world.
By Jezerca Tigani and Matteo de Bellis, Europe campaigners for Amnesty International
Our team visited Rome and some camps where Roma live on International Roma Day, 8 April 2011. We witnessed once again how the ‘Nomad Plan’, introduced in 2009 by the prefect and mayor of Rome, has made the living situation of Roma in [...]
A man named Mohammed posted this plea on the Migrants at Sea website three days after a rickety boat capsized on 6 April in rough seas just 39 miles from Lampedusa: "i wont to know if my brother is there with the eritreans died in the sea his name is sebah tahir nuru." The long-expected exodus by sea from war-torn Libya has begun, and with it the tragic and avoidable loss of life.
Por Charlotte Phillips, integrante de la delegación de Amnistía Internacional que se encuentra actualmente en Lampedusa
La negligencia de las autoridades italianas ha convertido la isla de Lampedusa en el escenario de una crisis humanitaria.
Durante las últimas semanas y meses, miles de tunecinos, en su mayoría, hombres jóvenes, se han visto atrapados en esta minúscula isla [...]