The Terra Aperta ('Open Land') network has been set up in the Italian city of Pistoia to help migrant reception and as a response to a recent 'security decree' passed by the Italian government.
After spending 27 years as the first doctor to examine migrants reaching Europe’s shores, Pietro Bartolo is now about to take over as a member of the European Parliament in Brussels. InfoMigrants caught up with Bartolo on Lampedusa and asked him about the Italian government's policies vis-a-vis NGO migrant rescue ships and his hopes as an MEP.
How does the Salvini decree effect asylum seekers and refugees in Italy? Our latest #FactCheck video explains just that.
Domenico Lucano was the mayor of the Calabrian town of Riace for 15 consecutive years. He became world-famous for his migrant-hosting and integration policies. In October 2018, he was suspended and forbidden from returning to the town while investigations against him were underway. Now the latest trial against him has begun in the municipal court in Locri.
The Italian interior ministry has announced it will reopen the centre for repatriations in Rome at the beginning of June. It also said work is underway to open another four similar structures across Italy.
Humanitarian organization Intersos has said that the implementation of the Salvini Decree has created an "emergency" because thousands of youths over the age of 18 can now no longer stay in reception centers. The situation in Sicily is reportedly particularly bad.
Female migrants who were being hosted at an Italian government CAS reception center in Torrenova, on the eastern outskirts of Rome, will be transferred. The government has closed the center, and the nuns who were providing assistance to the women are protesting against the closure.
Four organizations in Italy - Liberi Nantes, UISP, UNHCR and ASGI - presented a proposal to the National Amateur League football association in Italy aimed at promoting integration through football and removing the bureaucratic barriers that prevent refugees from playing in the amateur championship.
A recent report by the Women's Refugee Commission (WRC) detailed cases of sexual violence and exploitation of migrants, including young men and boys, during their journey to Italy. It goes on to describe what happens to many survivors after they reach Europe.
Gennaro Santoro is an Italian lawyer working with the non-governmental organization the Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights (CILD). Since the so-called ‘Salvini Decree’ was implemented in autumn 2018, lots of you have asked us questions on Facebook about how it will affect your life in Italy. Below are some answers to your questions.
The Italian Association of Psychology (AIP) has warned that Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's migrants-security decree, which clamped down on migrants' stay permits, will lead to an ''increase in irregular'' migrants and in psychological disorders. It said the decree would also have a negative impact on Italian society at large.
''After the Salvini decree, a human rights problem has arisen,'' said Pier Antonio Panzeri, head of the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament on a visit to Rome. Speaking at a press conference, he spoke about meetings with both institutional bodies and humanitarian organizations and said that the latter had stressed their concern over the rights and protection of migrants.