Tag: human rights
Grandi in Italy: new initiatives with UNHCR in the pipeline, including...
ROME, APRIL 15 - Concluding his visit to Italy, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi commended the country for ensuring access to asylum throughout...
Syria: Italy joins major pledging event; Stefanile, “humanitarian access and accountability...
NEW YORK, MARCH 30 - Ending the war in Syria is the collective responsibility of the international community, UN Secretary-General António Guterres reaffirmed during a...
Cingolani: “Italy in the front line of water resource management”
ROME, MARCH 18 - "At this moment in history, the responsible management of natural resources, and in particular water, can help prevent environmental and...
Cornado: human rights are central to “build back better” after...
GENEVA, MARCH 17 - In the framework of the current session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Italy spoke today in the General Debate...
UN Human Rights: Bachelet and Kamala Harris, status of women is...
NEW YORK, 17 MARCH - Michelle Bachelet, the UN rights chief said on Tuesday that empowering women and girls to participate fully in public...
Human Rights: Zappia, Italy supports Guterres’ call to action
NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 24 - "We are aware that the progress achieved must never be taken for granted. It is constantly under attack and...
46th session of the Human Rights Council underway in Geneva
GENEVA, FEBRUARY 22 - On the opening day of a new UN Human Rights Council session on Monday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated his “full support to the people of Myanmar”, three weeks after the...
46th Session of Human Rights Council will focus on Covid-19
GENEVA, FEBRUARY 21 - The COVID-19 pandemic would be a dominant feature throughout the 46th regular session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) which will open...
Build back better (and greener): Cornado, “an opportunity and a moral...
GENEVA, FEBRUARY 9 - "Today, we have the opportunity and the moral duty to build back better and greener", the Italian Permanent Representative to...
UNODC: Cortese closes special event on human trafficking
VIENNA, FEBRUARY 3rd - The Italian Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna, Alessandro Cortese, closed the special event held in Vienna for...
COVID Summit: Conte, “base recovery on human rights
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 4 - "A sustainable, inclusive and resilient recovery must be build on an approach based on human rights. Covid-19 has upset...
Human Rights: Belarus; Italy calls for immediate stop of peaceful protests...
GENEVA, NOVEMBER 2 - The brutal repressions against peaceful demonstrators in Belarus should come to an immediate stop and political prisoners should be released...
Zappia: “recovery better” can only be possible if we start from...
NEW YORK/GENEVA, OCTOBER 15 - "Recovery better can only be possible if we starts from human rights", the Italian Permanent Representative to the UN,...
UNGA75: 3rd Committee; Stefanile puts the spotlight on human rights
NEW YORK, OCTOBER 7 - As the 75th General Assembly 3rd Committee started its works, Italy reaffirmed its commitment to the universal moratorium on the...
Syria: Pinheiro, UNDC must do more; Italy deeply concerned by devastating...
GENEVA, JULY 14 - Addressing a meeting in Geneva, the President of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, criticized the United...
COVID-19: Cornado, “women are playing key role in Coronavirus fight”
GENEVA, JULY 7 - The Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations in Geneva, Amb. Gian Lorenzo Cornado, addressed today an interactive dialogue with...
COVID-19: Cornado, “pandemic a test for our societies, with greater impact...
GENEVA, JULY 1 - COVID-19 represented and it is still representing a test for our societies, their organizations and their resilience to unexpected shocks. The...
Libya: Cornado calls for end of all hostilities, external interferences
GENEVA, JUNE 18 - Addressing a Human Rights Council's Interactive Dialogue on the situation in Libya, the Italian Permanent Representative to the UN in...
Right to food: UN expert in Bari, the focus is on...
BARI, JANUARY 27 - Hilal Elver, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food on an institutional visit to Italy, has arrived...
Zappia: “climate change, human rights, inclusion, reforms are Italy’s top priorities...
NEW YORK, JANUARY 14 - This year Italy will be strongly committed to tackling the UN 2020 priorities of: climate change, human rights, inclusion,...