Equity

Six years in prison.This is what the Palermo PMs asked of Matteo Salvini, Vice President of the Council and Minister of Transport and Infrastructure.The request came as part of the trial in which the leader of the League is accused of having kidnapped the passengers of the Open Arms ship in 2019. The case has had and is having a disruptive effect on Italian politics, with the classic accusations against the "politicized judiciary" and the proclamations on the "defense of the borders".In reality it is a script that we have widely seen and seen over the years.The differences are in the seriousness of the tones and in the general context in which the case is placed. What we talk about in this article:The Open Arms caseWhat is Salvini accused of?Government propaganda and its dangers The Open Arms case In August 2019, the ship Open Arms of the NGO Proactiva Open Arms is prevented from disembarking in Italian ports for 19 days.These are the times of the first...

Youth with AFSC’s Emerging Leaders for Liberation program are creating change in their communities.

I found myself in Italy almost unconsciously.It's as if I've always lived there:like those born there, I have never had a choice to make.I had not yet turned two when I was catapulted to the outskirts of Naples, to escape the economic and social devastation of post-Soviet Ukraine. I grew up hearing myself called Andrew, in kindergarten as well as by my parents.When my mother explained to me the reason for thatAndriy I struggled to understand the paperwork I rummaged around the house.I thought they were referring to my father, my namesake (common practice in Eastern European countries), but then I read my date of birth. When I arrived it was 1999.In the same year, the Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko also landed in Italy, with whom most Italians would end up associating my country, and therefore me too, at least until the political upheavals of the last decade.While I was growing up he became a star of Silvio Berlusconi's Milan, and I slowly became convinced that even Andriy I...

Abuse.Violence.Rape and sexual assault.For a year and a half, the list of abuses and violations affecting the Tunisian security apparatus has become longer and longer.In particular since February 2023 when the President of the Republic Kais Saied delivered a harsh state speech against the sub-Saharan community present in the country accusing it of carrying out a real ethnic substitution of the Tunisian population.Since then, the xenophobic and racist violence has become increasingly visible and has directly affected the security forces of the small North African state. To stop migrants we pay authoritarian, racist, violent governments:what is happening in President Saied's Tunisia An investigation by the British newspaper The Guardian has documented what this segment of the population has been forced to endure for some time.It is also undergoing it through tools, equipment and training made available by the European Union and with a brutality that demonstrates the complete opp...

  “In your city there is a concentration camp”.It's there complaint activists who have been fighting for years for the closure of the CPR (Permanence Centers for Repatriations), real black holes where foreign citizens without a regular residence permit end up, and sometimes even lose their lives. With a total capacity of 1,100 places, there are ten centers currently operational in Milan, Turin, Gradisca d'Isonzo, Rome-Ponte Galeria, Palazzo San Gervasio, Macomer, Brindisi-Restinco, Bari-Palese, Trapani-Milo and Caltanissetta-Pian del Lake. These are structures that in over twenty years have produced a long trail of despair, violence And dead.Established in 1998 by the centre-left government led by Romano Prodi with the immigration law Turco-Napolitano, the centers were initially called CPTA (Temporary Permanence and Assistance Centres), then CIE (Identification and Expulsion Centres) and finally renamed CPR with the law Minniti-Orlando of...