Brief international press review Italy is short on healthcare workers, but its jobs are closed to most immigrants - Quartz, November 24 2020 According to Italy’s laws, the only non-Italians that can be hired in public roles (which include most healthcare workers) are European citizens, their ... Read More
Rights in route. The “quarantine ships” between risks and criticisms
The first experiment was carried out on board the ship Rubattino, run by the Tirrenia company, which hosted 183 people between the 17 April and the 5 May. On the 19 April, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transportations launched a procedure for the chartering of vessels for the assistance and ... Read More
Migrants must be transferred from Roja camp in Ventimiglia
On May 12 we have sent a letter to the prefecture of Imperia, the Liguria region, the municipality of Ventimiglia and the local health authority ASL to denounce the situation in Ventimiglia, at the border with France. Vulnerable people must be transferred to more adequate facilities given the ... Read More
COVID-19 emergency: it is essential to regularize foreign citizens
During the ongoing global sanitary emergency, the generalized closure of borders by many countries highly limited human mobility, also for those willing to return to their own country. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of foreign citizens are residing irregularly in Italy. The present ... Read More
Deaths in the Mediterranean are not inevitable! Solidarity: the last shield against the EU’s deadly policies
After several days of uncertainty and confusion, the outcome at the beginning of April in the Central Mediterranean, although still provisional, is particularly disastrous: hundreds of migrants exhausted after being abandoned at sea for several days without any help, 12 people dead from ... Read More
Without rights for agri-food workers, Europe’s food supplies rest on shaky ground
As the novel coronavirus pandemic sweeps across Europe, the consequences for European agriculture are also making themselves felt. The European Union institutions and national leaders have pledged to ensure that food supplies will not be affected, and a number of short-term measures are being ... Read More