Amnesty International found guilty of abuse

On February 6th, 2019 Amnesty International released a Staff Wellbeing Review report whose results exposed a situation of recurrent abuses, bullying and depression for thousands of the agency’s employees, which referred to the company working environment as “toxic”. Key findings of the report admit that “working at Amnesty often places staff under exceptional stress” mainly due to theContinua a leggere “Amnesty International found guilty of abuse”

Italy’s fight against Human Rights will come back to bite

On November 29th, 2018, something changed in Italy. The Parliament officially approved the Security and Immigration Decree which, among many directives, erases humanitarian protection from the country’s body of law and downsizes the SPRAR system, that linked together the many centers for protection and integration of immigrants dotted around the peninsula. According to the far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini thoseContinua a leggere “Italy’s fight against Human Rights will come back to bite”

Fact checking: ma davvero i rifiuti dell’Aquarius sono infettivi?

Martedì 20 novembre la procura di Catania ha aperto — di nuovo — un’inchiesta a carico dell’associazione internazionale Medici Senza Frontiere, accusata di smaltimento illecito di rifiuti: secondo il procuratore Carmelo Zuccaro i collaboratori della nave Aquarius, di proprietà di MSF e SOS Mediterranee, avrebbero smaltito in modo non consono alle procedure 24 tonnellate di rifiuti pericolosi negli ultimiContinua a leggere “Fact checking: ma davvero i rifiuti dell’Aquarius sono infettivi?”