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Of foreigners residing in Italy at least half they are women;in 2021, approximately 2.6 million women with foreign citizenship were registered, a number equal to 50.9% of the entire foreign population resident in our country.Since the 1970s, women have begun to arrive in Italy with an emancipatory migration project in mind.To date, however, the well-being and rights status of foreign women in our country are seriously compromised, as illustrated bylatest report of the Idos Study and Research Center. To understand women's rights in Italy today, an intersectional approach is necessary, that is, having to consider the multiplicity of aspects that are part of our identities and the ways in which these intertwine, creating disadvantages or privileges.Intersectionality is based on the assumption that discrimination against non-white women, LGBTQIA+ and disadvantaged class subjects is multiplying;it was the African American activists who forcefully stated that there are multiple hegemonic...

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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. It took a red spot on the European Space Agency (ESA) cartography and a podium placement in a ranking of little relevance, as if it were an Olympics competition, to make the poor air quality of the Po Valley news.Which isn't so much news, it's everyday life in certain periods of the year and should be newsworthy due to its periodicity.But it is enough to make people talk about a systemic issue once again in terms of emergency and inevitability and trigger the angry reaction of mayors and the usual brawl of comments which in the end only generate noise and confusion, shifting attention from the real crux of the matter :namely that air pollution is “an important public health issue that seriously threatens the well-being of people and our environment”, as stated just last October by Maria Neira, Director of the Environment, Climate Change and Health Department of the W...

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Eight years have passed since the image of little Alan Kurdi, found dead on the beach in Bodrum, Turkey, together with 12 other people fleeing the war in Syria, went around the world. We wondered on whether or not to publish the photo of the 3 year old child's body.Those who had done so said they were convinced that that image would represent the point of no return: “If these images don't change Europe, what will?”, had headlined several newspapers.To hold those who govern to their responsibilities.That photo, it was written at the time, was the iconic representation, the "consequence", of political choices. This year the tenth anniversary was remembered of the Lampedusa shipwreck.It was October 3, 2013, when at least 368 people died in front of the island of Lampedusa, mostly Eritreans, fleeing from Libya.Even then, the images of the coffins lined up, white and small, shocked public opinion.Then, eight days later, there was “the shipwreck of the chil...

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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The columns of tractors that have blocked the roads of France and Germany in recent weeks are nothing new.They are just the latest wave of a growing protest by European farmers against some decisions by national and European governments to protect nature from pollution generated by agricultural production and livestock farming.For some of them, already in difficulty due to the energy crisis and the consequences of the pandemic, paying higher taxes for the pollution produced is unsustainable.Others say they feel overwhelmed by bureaucracy and that they are unheard and misunderstood by city dwellers who eat the food they grow without knowing where it comes from.In agricultural giants such as the Netherlands and France, farmers have expressed frustration at pressure from governments to produce less, after years of encouragement to produce more. “In recent years we have exp...

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“The right advances”.“The European People's Party wins by a landslide”.“The real dark wave is yet to arrive.”These are some of the newspaper headlines that tell the outcome of the European elections on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 June.The results were expected:the right and the far right increased their consensus, but did not obtain an absolute majority in the European Parliament.The three main right-wing parties (the more moderate European People's Party, the Conservatives and Reformists, which includes the Brothers of Italy, and Identity and Democracy, which includes the League) have different positions on many issues but they all agree on a point:the need to clamp down on migration in Europe, pushing towards an increasingly restrictive policy towards people arriving on the territory of the Union.“We want to stop uncontrolled migration,” was the slogan printed in large letters on the election posters of the European People's Party. Alre...

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