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By Roberto Malini
Co-founder, EveryOne Group, Italy

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Racism. European Human Rights Commissioner warns of the serious situation in Italy
By Roberto Malini
Strasbourg, September 10th, 2011. Thomas Hammarberg, the Commissioner for Human Rights, warns in the Council of Europe’s annual report of the serious situation in Italy. (Full Story)

New Romani Holocaust is Underway in the European Union
By Roberto Malini
Rome - Infant mortality among Roma children in Italy is 15 times higher than that of other children, due to the persecution, social exclusion, lack of health care and the hardship they and their families are subjected to. (Full Story)

Ghana orders arrest of homosexuals
By Roberto Malini
It is now confirmed that the Minister for the western part of Ghana, Paul Evans Aido, ordered the arrest of all homosexuals in his area of competence. As co-president of the organization for human rights EveryOne Group, I togetheter with my colleagues, Matteo Pegoraro and Dario Picciau have sent an appeal to international institutions about this new act of persecution against gay people in Africa. (Full Story)

EU Parliament and Council. The need for a directive on civil unions between same-sex couples
By Roberto Malini
Rome - After the motions sent to the European Institutions in 2006, 2008 and 2010, which have been taken up and supported by major organizations for homosexual rights, EveryOne Group has sent a new letter to the political institutions of the European Union – Parliament, Commission and Council – asking them for a serious debate, and to approve a Directive on civil unions between same-sex couples, rights for LGBT couples and programmes for the younger generations teaching awareness and respect for all forms of sexual orientation. (Full Story)

An Appeal to the European Union to Stop Racism and Xenophobia in Italy
By Roberto Malini
Rome - The Italian government has approved an emergency decree which foresees the immediate expulsion of all illegal immigrants, and at the same time has extended the detention period in the CIEs to 18 months. (Full Story)

An appeal for information about Gilad Shalit
By Roberto Malini
Rome/Vercelli, . For five years now there has been no news about Gilad Shalit, the young Israeli corporal who was kidnapped on June 25th, 2006 by fundamentalists from Hamas when he was just 19 years old. Since then the soldier has not been able to contact his family or to receive - according to international law - any visits by humanitarian organizations. (Full Story)

Rome : Nazi symbol found at the site of Rafael Cohen's murder
By Roberto Malini
Rome - Investigators have found a 15-cm long swastika, engraved with a blade, on the window of the concierge’s lodge where poor Rafael Cohen was found dead. The investigators, under the command of Colonel Salvatore Cagnazzo, have spoken to the tenants of the building, who say the Nazi symbol has been there for about a year. (Full Story)

Elderly Jewish Man Murdered on the Day of Netanyahu's Visit to Rome
By Roberto Malini
Rome - On the day of Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Rome, a member of the capital’s Jewish community, Raffi Coen, was stabbed through the heart. Coen was 74 years old and well-loved in the Jewish community. (Full Story)

Football and the Mafia
By Roberto Malini
Rome - The latest scandal involving the illegal betting on football games, with millions of euro paid out by punters every Sunday on the league championship series (Serie A, B and C), confirms that the Mafia has now penetrated every sphere of Italian society. (Full Story)

Forced evictions of Roma families continue throughout Italy
By Roberto Malini
Florence - The forced evictions of Roma families are continuing throughout Italy. In Rome, the clearance of the Magliana aqueduct area on the morning of May 9th - without the offer of alternative lodgings - has resulted in a humanitarian emergency for many Roma families. In Milan, the operations against the Piazza Lugano settlement has forced five Romanian Roma families to undertake a dramatic exodus as they were already living in conditions of extreme poverty and poor health.
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