News - 14 Novembre 2019 HRW and Amnesty Denounce Italy for Enabling Human Rights Abuses in Libya Per leggere su questo in italiano, qui. Seven years ago, in 2012, fourteen Somalian and Eritrean nationals proved that Italy had violated the European Convention on Human Rights with its practice of intercepting migrants on the Mediterranean and bringing them to Libya where they risk torture, degrading treatment and death. The case brought attention to […]
News - 17 Settembre 2019 The Number of International Migrants Reaches 272 Million, Says UN The number of international migrants globally reached an estimated 272 million in 2019, an increase of 51 million since 2010. Currently, international migrants comprise 3.5 per cent of the global population, compared to 2.8 per cent in the year 2000, according to new estimates released by the United Nations today. The International Migrant Stock 2019, […]
U.N. - 18 Giugno 2019 The World’s Population is Growing, but at a Slower Pace and Growing Older According to the “World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights” the current world population is 7.7 billion. It is estimated that by 2030 there will be 8.5 billion people on earth, and by 2050, 9.7 billion people, the population possibly reaching its peak at 11 billion in 2100. More than half of the predicted population growth between 2019 and 2050 will be from nine countries, including, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, the United Republic of Tanzania, Indonesia, Egypt, and the United States of America (in descending order of the expected increase.) According to the report, India is projected to overtake China as the world’s most populous country by 2027.
People - 28 Maggio 2019 Italian Immigration and Emigration Between Acceptance and Prejudice Before opening the floor to the speakers, Tamburri noted that, between 1880 and 1920, more than 20 million people left Italy. He then introduced a really important idea that will be brought up many times during the conversation: history helps us understand the phenomenon that is taking place in Italy right now. It first happened with Albanians, then with Eastern Europeans, and Africans. As Gian Antonio Stella writes, we have to remember “quando gli Albanesi eravamo noi” (“when we were the Albanians”). This is why it’s extremely important to talk about both of these phenomena together, emigration and immigration.
News - 12 Maggio 2019 Italy Is “Pre-Occupied”… And So Are We The book addresses the topic of transnational migrations from, and to Italy in the 20th and 21st centuries. Two years after its publication, Fiore claims that the book “still creates an occasion to speak about migration.” Indeed, the book came out when migration was not only an “academic” topic, but also made headlines, was in everyone’s conversations, and even influenced political agendas.
Arts - 8 Maggio 2019 BARCA NOSTRA, an Exhibition on Europe’s Migration Crisis at La Biennale Exactly four years after the tragic shipwreck that occurred on April 18th, 2015, the boat was released on April 18th, 2019, by the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the Italian Ministry of Defense, to be handed over to the Commune of Augusta through the project BARCA NOSTRA. It was a bureaucratic odyssey riddled with obstacles, to clear the ownership and responsibilities regarding the shipwreck’s uncertain fate, and to prepare the boat for the continuation of its journey.
Mediterranean - 4 Marzo 2019 Emotional Does Not Mean Irrational. Learning from Anti-Migration Feelings Populist forces pander to people’s need to have an enemy to blame for the unfair state of affairs and against which to lash out. To demand inclusive policies must not mean underestimating the serious social and economic costs that host communities have to bear as a result of the growth of migration flows. If we want to make our societies more open to foreigners, we need to reduce the gap between the winners and losers in our society.
Mediterranean - 5 Luglio 2018 Migrants, Europe Needs Vision, not Tactics Last 28th and 29th June there was an important political meeting of the European Council, focusing on migration. The Council was held in a very polarized and bewildering scenario. Despite many observers fully expecting it to fail, it was able to reach an agreement, but a real, shared solution is still faraway
U.N. - 22 Giugno 2018 The Benefits of Migration and Data: an Interview on the UN’s 2018 SDG Report Two days ago, U.N. statisticians gave a briefing on recent statistics collected about progress on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Among the developments were two interesting pieces of data: world hunger is on the rise again after years of declining, and migration creates a "win-win" situation for all. La Voce met with Francesca Perucci and Yongyi Min for more.
U.N. - 21 Giugno 2018 Cardi’s Farewell: “I did my best to have Italy leave a greater mark on the UN” We met with the Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations, Sebastiano Cardi, at the end of May, just before leaving his office to continue his commitment to Italian Foreign policy in Rome. We asked him to take stock of these past 5 years – years in which Italy confirmed itself as a leading force at the UN and was able – when necessary – to stand up and call the attention of the international community to issues of great concern to the country, such as the Mediterranean