Italy

COVID-19 crisis

ITALY: The right to assembly and protest during the lockdown
By Osservatorio Repressione Download the report here. Since the beginning of the COVID - 19 pandemic, in Italy, 226,699 people ...
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ITALY: a brief analysis on democracy and COVID-19
Extract from article originally published on TNI website, 14 April 2020 - accessible here Author: Francesco Martone [...] Italy was ...
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ITALY: New Safe Harbor Decree – “Save all lives, on land and at sea. It is possible and dutiful” – say NGOs
(Mediterranea - Saving Humans, 8 April 2020) The NGOs Sea-Watch, Doctors Without Borders, Open Arms and Mediterranea express their concern ...
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ITALY: Social despair is a huge risk. We can’t wait any longer. Act fast and well!
Article originally published in Italian, 7 April 2020 - accessible here Forum Disuguaglianze e Diversità and Rete dei Numeri Pari ...
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ITALY: Human rights and state of emergency – the appeal of the network In Difesa Di to the CIDU
Article originally published in Italian on In Difesa Di, 6 April, 2020 - accessible here The network "In Difesa Di ...
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Freedom of association

ITALY: New Safe Harbor Decree – “Save all lives, on land and at sea. It is possible and dutiful” – say NGOs
(Mediterranea - Saving Humans, 8 April 2020) The NGOs Sea-Watch, Doctors Without Borders, Open Arms and Mediterranea express their concern ...
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ITALY: Who watches the watcher? The emergency eats away transparency – FOIA suspended
Extract from article published in Italian on Vita, 1 April 2020 - accessible here The FOIA, the comprehensive civic access ...
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#stories of resistance – Casa Internazionale delle Donne: its importance and survival for women in Rome, Italy
By Casa Internazionale delle Donne Collective The International House of Women (CID) in Rome is a unique place in Europe ...
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ITALY: Sea-Watch captain free after court order (UPDATED)
UPDATE (Extract of an article by Liberties, 23 January 2020, accessible HERE) Author: Jascha Galaski "Italy’s highest court confirmed last ...
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ITALY: Third sector reform stalled – an attack on civil society
Three years after the Parliament approved the reform of the third sector (Legge delega 106/2016), the law remains inactive. The ...
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Freedom of expression

ITALY: Who watches the watcher? The emergency eats away transparency – FOIA suspended
Extract from article published in Italian on Vita, 1 April 2020 - accessible here The FOIA, the comprehensive civic access ...
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ITALY: “Cherry bomb under car”, writer from Verona claims
This street artist covers swastika graffitis with food paintings. A week ago a cherry bomb went off under his car, ...
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ITALY: Police beats up and threatens protesters in Genoa and Florence
On May 23, the anti-fascist protest in Genoa against a rally of Casapound, a far right movement, was heavily suppressed ...
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ITALY: Report “Much Mafia, Little News”
(Ossigeno per l'informazione) On the dramatic theme of the criminal roots of the Mafia, on its influence on society and on ...
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ITALY: Far-right activists assault journalists covering neo-fascist anniversary rally
(Map Media Freedom) 7 January 2019 - Members of neo-fascist groups assaulted a reporter and a photographer who was covering ...
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Freedom of assembly

ITALY: Cassa di Resistenza NoTAP – #PeopleNotPipelines
NoTAP Resistance Fund - Fundraising initiatives on GoFundMe.com  The local resistance to the TAP pipeline, a huge EU-funded fossil gas ...
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ITALY: The right to assembly and protest during the lockdown
By Osservatorio Repressione Download the report here. Since the beginning of the COVID - 19 pandemic, in Italy, 226,699 people ...
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ITALY: Who watches the watcher? The emergency eats away transparency – FOIA suspended
Extract from article published in Italian on Vita, 1 April 2020 - accessible here The FOIA, the comprehensive civic access ...
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ITALY: Italian law increases penalties related to protests and criminalises NGOs’ rescue of migrants at sea
(featured photo: rally in Italy in favour of sea rescue by Repstatic.it) (ECNL) On 5 August 2019, the Italian Parliament ...
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ITALY: A story of repression of social dissent
By Osservatorio Repressione  (Translated with DeepL) The repression of all social struggles has been taking place for decades in Italy through the ...
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ITALY: Security decree bis and the right to protest
A new Security Decree is currently under discussion, targeting search and rescue NGOs as well as other forms of dissent.(Translated ...
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ITALY: Police beats up and threatens protesters in Genoa and Florence
On May 23, the anti-fascist protest in Genoa against a rally of Casapound, a far right movement, was heavily suppressed ...
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ITALY: Governmental decree on security potentially hampering freedom of assembly, social movements
(European Civic Forum on CIVICUS Monitor) A governmental decree on security is currently being discussed in the Italian parliament. The decree ...
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ITALY: Local residents in Salento resisting mega-pipeline face criminalisation
(350.org) Communities in Salento, in the southern ‘heel’ of Italy, are on the frontlines of the struggle to stop the Trans ...
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ITALY: activists deemed “socially dangerous” for taking part in peaceful anti-fascist rally
A group of women activists was identified as "socially dangerous" by the police central station of Rome for singing Bella ...
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Institutional reactions

ITALY: UN experts condemn criminalisation of migrant rescues and threats to the independence of judiciary
(OHCHR) GENEVA (18 July 2019) – UN human rights experts have expressed grave concern over the detention and criminal proceedings ...
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ITALY: UN experts condemn bill to fine migrant rescuers
(OHCHR - GENEVA, 20 May 2019) – UN human rights experts* have condemned a proposed draft decree by Italy’s interior ...
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ITALY: UN Special Rapporteurs send letter of concern over the criminalization of activities of migrants rights defenders
On 12 November 2018, a group of UN Special Rapporteurs wrote to the Italian government over concerns of violations of ...
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Special Rapporteur concerned for spaces for women in Rome
On 22 October, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences and the Working Group on the ...
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FRA: NGO ships involved in search and rescue in the Mediterranean and criminal investigations
(FRA) This note draws attention to the recent trend of criminalising search and rescue operations (SAR) in the Mediterranean Sea ...
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Other resources

ITALY: Cassa di Resistenza NoTAP – #PeopleNotPipelines
NoTAP Resistance Fund - Fundraising initiatives on GoFundMe.com  The local resistance to the TAP pipeline, a huge EU-funded fossil gas ...
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ITALY: Dealing with the emergency, for health, against isolation, for dignity. The proposals of Antigone, Anpi, Arci, Cgil and Gruppo Abele
Article originally published in Italian on Associazione Antigone, 14 Marzo 2020 - accessible here The tragic events of recent days ...
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ITALY: Interview with Mediterranea, reactivating hopes for democratic resistance in Italy and beyond
In July 2019, we interviewed Alessandra Sciurba from the crew of Mediterranea. Of their story, Raffaella Bolini, Member of ARCI, ...
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Orange Vest Movement: international solidarity with Mediterranea and all sea rescuers
(Mediterranea - Saving Humans) There is a movement of people that don’t fit in: who think that every human being has ...
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ITALY: Why the Nobel Peace Prize to Domenico Lucano and to Riace
(Riace Premio Nobel per la Pace) A man and a community of former Magna Graecia, with the sense of hospitality of the ...
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