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Roberto Malini's Point of View
By Roberto Malini
Co-founder, EveryOne Group, Italy

Image: it.wikipedia.org 
Articles in this column
European Social Fund. Where have the funds gone for integration of Roma population?
By Roberto Malini
The current programming cycle (2007-2013) of the European Social Fund (ESF) has allocated over € 15 million to Italy for social integration projects involving the disadvantaged. The Roma population has been targeted as potential participants in a series of initiatives in Italy and other Member States which would absorb at least 27% of the total ESF budget. (Full Story)
AN APPEAL TO UNITED NATIONS AND EUROPEAN UNION TO PUT A STOP TO ETHNIC CLEASING OF THE ROMA PEOPLE IN FRANCE
By Roberto Malini
Milan (Italy) - For several years EveryOne Group has been issuing warnings to the EU authorities and the UN organisms in charge of the protection of ethnic minorities of the risk of serious anti-Roma policies being undertaken by France. (Full Story)
Urgent appeal by EveryOne Group to undertake action to stop Mediterranean BP project
By Roberto Malini
EveryOne Group appeals to Stavros Dimas, European Union Environment Commissioner, and Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General, to undertake action to stop the BP project and prevent a new environmental and humanitarian disaster from occurring in the Mediterranean. (Full Story)
Faith Aiworo, arrested and deported from Italy to Nigeria, risks death by hanging
By Roberto Malini
Faith Aiworo, 23 years old, arrested and deported from Italy to Nigeria, her country of origin, now risks death by hanging, in contempt of the Geneva Convention and international agreements regulating humanitarian protection and aid. (Full Story)
Human Rights
By Roberto Malini
Translated from Italian by Glenys Robinson

Human rights,
bread of the world
buried laws,
codes of justice
laid aside. (Full Story)
Libya - Refugees constantly subjected to pressure and ill-treatment
By Roberto Malini
Milan (Italy) - According to the latest news that we received, the Libyan government, after the pressure put on it by the NGOs, intends to guarantee residency and employment suitable to the professional skills of all 350-400 refugees. (Full Story)
Refugees pushed back by Europe are being subjected to inhuman treatment in Libya
By Roberto Malini
Milan (Italy) -  About 350 refugees who fled from humanitarian crises in the Horn of Africa, have been detained since June 30th in the Internament Centre of Al Braq, 80 kilometres from Sebha, in southern Libya. (Full Story)
IRANIAN LESBIAN KIANA FIROUZ GRANTED LEAVE TO REMAIN IN UK
By Roberto Malini
Tonight arrived the official confirmation that Kiana Firouz, lesbian filmmaker and activist escaped in 2008 from Iran, her Country, and who took refuge in United Kingdom, has been granted asylum. (Full Story)
THE CASE OF SEBASTIANO SAIA
By Roberto Malini
Rome (Italy) - A series of violations of the fundamental rights of human beings, contrary to the Italian Constitution, the Charter of Nice, the EU’s Charter of Rights, the European resolutions and directives and all the international treaties (which Italy has undersigned) that protect a person’s fundamental human rights... (Full Story)
Italy. Florence's actions against the Roma people
By Roberto Malini
Florence (Italy) -This morning Police Headquarters and the local authorities decided to step up the measures against the Roma people as part of a security plan created after two murders took place in the city during criminal activities. Despite Roma citizens being extraneous to these two episodes, the authorities have singled them out as the prime subjects for their repressive measures, which include camp clearances with no offer of alternative housing. (Full Story)
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~European Social Fund. Where have the funds gone for integration of Roma population?
~France: Gay Iranian risks deportation. NGOs pressure for political asylum
~Rome, where the Roma people continue to burn to death
~ITALY. IMMINENT CAMP CLEARANCE OF 700 ROMA CITIZENS
~MILAN. TRANSEXUAL COMMITS SUICIDE IN DETENTION AND EXPULSION CENTRE
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