ROME – Human rights, the growing power of the Arab world in the Mediterranean and the challenges for future relationships between Europe and the Gulf were the central themes of three talks at the Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) by Dr Silvia Colombo, Dr Gerald Power and Dr Rachid Chaker as part of the Centre’s “Lessons from History” series.
Insider reporters
ROME – A senior World Food Programme executive may have sparked a sex harassment probe by allegedly making "homophobic remarks" to gay employees at the agency’s Kabul office, UN sources have said.
Mick Lorentzen was suspended as long as last March from his job as Afghanistan country director for WFP after an outside investigation into the allegations was held in Kabul the previous month, the sources said.
19 Feb 2018
INSIDER NEWSDESK
ROME – Italy’s politicians have piled promise upon promise in the election campaign, with all parties having pledged a total of one trillion euros so far, according to La Stampa.
It follows a number of headline grabbing proposals from Italy’s politicians including Silvio Berlusconi’s calls for a “Flat Tax” in Italy, and the Five Star Movement’s (M5S) call for a citizen’s income.
19 Feb 2018
Gianfranco Nitti
ROME - The exhibition "The Treasure of Antiquity: Winckelmann and the Museo Capitolino in 18th-century Rome" , currently in Rome, celebrates the important Winckelmannian anniversaries of 2017 (300 years since his birth) and 2018 (250 years after his death) and fits into the context of the European events coordinated by the Winckelmann Gesellschaft of Stendal, by the Germanic Archaeological Institute of Rome and by the Vatican Museums.
19 Feb 2018
Gianfranco Nitti
ROME- ClientEarth and Greenpeace Italia have on Feb 19 sent a legal letter to the Lazio Regional authorities giving them 60 days to start working on the adoption of an effective plan to bring down illegal levels of air pollution – or face court action.
19 Feb 2018
Daisy Raichura
MONTALCINO- Every February amidst the blustering Tuscan winter winds, thousands coalesce in this small town to savour a warming slice of summer thanks to the Consorzio del vino Brunello di Montalcino who organizes ‘Benvenuto Brunello.’
18 Feb 2018
Anonymous
Master carpenter, designer and architect Władysław Filipowicz offers elegant, robust, distinctive original wooden doors, wardrobe and kitchen storage units and staircases, other wooden furniture fittings for villas, apartments, restaurants, hotels under restoration at highly competitive prices, also religious shrines for private chapels, estates, convents etc.
16 Feb 2018
John Phillips
ROME-Peter Anthony Gallo, Director of ‘Hear their Cries’ and former UN investigator, speaks to the Italian Insider about Oxfam and the UN admission that privileges and immunities do not apply in child sex abuse cases. Q: What is the story behind 'Hear their Cries?'
15 Feb 2018
INSIDER NEWSDESK
ROME – Almost half of Italy’s women between the ages of 14 and 65 have been harassed at least once in their lives and over three million have suffered in some form in the last three years, according to Italy’s National Statistics Institute, ISTAT.
The report, published Tuesday and detailed in the Corriere della Sera, analysed data collected in the course of 2015 and 2016, discovering that 8.8 million women (43.6 percent) had been affected by harassment in their lifetime.
14 Feb 2018