DG of IOM, Antonio Vitorino at MED2020 Dialogue:
Five years after the 2015 ‘refugee crisis’, migration remains a significant political and humanitarian issue in the Euro-Mediterranean region. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many of the longstanding deficiencies of current international migration governance. Regular migration pathways shrank to a minimum, the economic shock hit origin and transit countries hard, and the two forces combined heightened […]
Read moreVice Minister Emanuela Del Re opens the forum on ”The Health-Nutrition-Agriculture Nexus in the Mediterranean”
Vice Minister Del Re opened the forum on “The Health-Nutrition-Agriculture Nexus in the Mediterranean” with the Director of the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute – CIHEAM – of Bari, Maurizio Raeli. The forum will be closed by the Director-General for Development Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Giorgio Marrapodi. Follow live: https://youtu.be/FVqPekuV-RU
Read moreMinister Di Maio: satisfaction for Grandi’s renewal of mandate at UNHCR
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation expressed great satisfaction with the renewal of Filippo Grandi’s mandate as UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for the January 2021 – June 2023 period. “This renewal of mandate is a recognition of the excellent work carried out by Filippo Grandi in recent years and of his […]
Read moreIntervention of the Permanent Representative of Italy to the 111th session of the Council of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
The Permanent Representative of Italy to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva, Ambassador Gian Lorenzo Cornado, delivered his statement to the IOM’s Council session, at the presence of the Director General, Antonio Vitorino. Ambassador Cornado highlighted the great challenges we are facing today due to the COVID-19 pandemic, calling it “a health emergency […]
Read moreNew WHO Communication Campaign “We Are #InThisTogether
TheWorld Health Organization today launched a new communication partner to continue to promote Science, Solutions and Solidarity in response to the COVID-19 pandemic entitled “We Are #InThisTogether”. The campaign was launched in conjunction with the work of the World Health Assembly to show how, as humanity faces a common threat, communicating the main measures to […]
Read moreItaly at the Board of Directors of the ILO
The Permanent Representative of Italy to the International Organizations, Gian Lorenzo Cornado, has delivered today a statement on behalf of the Group of the Industrialized Market Economy Countries (IMEC) at the 340 Session of the Governing Body of the International Labour Organizazion. Ambassador Cornado’s intervention supports the activities of the ILO International Training Centre-ITC of […]
Read moreDel Re: a multidimensional response to the Covid pandemic at the centre of the G20 Presidency agenda
Vice Minister Del Re participated, in VTC, in the 2nd High Level Meeting of the Facilitation Council of ACT – the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator – convened by the Norwegian Development Minister and the South African Health Minister. The aim of the meeting was to provide an update on the state-of-the-art of the diagnostics, […]
Read moreItaly participates to the 36th Session of the Working Group on Universal Periodic Review on Human Rights
The 36th session of the Universal Periodic Review Working Group, a mechanism of review between the Member States of the United Nations on the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms, began on November 2, 2020 in Geneva. During this session, which will end on November 13, the human rights situation in the following countries will […]
Read moreTeatro alla Scala and Roberto Bolle set to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations
Italy honors the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations by bringing to its solemn General Assembly Hall a live, global broadcast of a performance without precedent. With the support of Intesa Sanpaolo, the exclusive offering conceived for the occasion by Teatro alla Scala, featuring Roberto Bolle and the leading names of La Scala ballet company, […]
Read moreInternational day against the death penalty
On the World and European Day against the Death Penalty celebrated today, Italy reiterates its strongest condemnation of the death penalty in all circumstances. Italy believes that the Death Penalty has no deterrent value concerning crime while making any judicial error dramatically irreversible. In occasion of the ministerial week of the 75th session of the […]
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