Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Italy'
Italian Women Call for Action against 'Femicide'
by Sylvia Poggioli, NPR, USA - "Murders of women take place mostly within the family, and mostly at the hands of former husbands or boyfriends. They also cross class lines and are committed just as often in rich families as...
Home Is Where the Hurt Is: Domestic Violence in Italy
by Michelle Milici, Maple Leaf Mama, Italy - According to Nicoletta Livi Bacci of the Artemisia women’s shelter in Florence, every two days a woman is killed as a result of domestic violence in Italy....
The Fight for Information in Italy
by Alessia Cerantola, European Journalism Centre, The Netherlands - In many countries, access to public information is guaranteed by law. Often at the constitutional level. Not in Italy....
The Nigerian Connection
by Juliana Ruhfus, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Every year tens of thousands of West Africans migrate to Europe in search of a better life. But for some of them that search will end in tragedy, as they fall victim to...
Comedian Beppe Grillo Shakes Up Italian Politics
by Fiona Ehlers, Der Spiegel, Germany - All across crisis-hit Europe, voters are disillusioned with mainstream politicians and are turning to populist and radical parties. In Italy, the new rising force is comedian Beppe Grillo's grassroots Five Star Movement. But...
The Perils of Being LGBT in Italy
by Michelle Tarnopolsky, Maclean's, Canada - “The problem is the Vatican addresses not only the faithful but all citizens, and especially politicians. They want what they consider sinful to be illegal. So, unlike other nations, there is no law that...
Child Labour Re-emerges in Naples
by Cécile Allegra, Le Monde, France - In one of Europe’s poorest cities, thousands of children are leaving school to help their families make ends meet. Part of a trend that has been accentuated by the crisis, they find work...
From Berlusconi Papi Girl to Working Mom Heroine
by Michelle Tarnopolsky, Macleans, Canada - Italian MP Licia Ronzulli, was heralded by mommy bloggers before, and after her ties to Berlusconi were revealed....
In Conversation with Dacia Maraini
by Yamini Deenadayalan, Tehelka, India - What the Berlusconi regime meant to artists and why women writers are not taken seriously by the critics all over the world....
Fortune-Tellers and Psychics Pervade Italian Media
by Mariella Radaelli, European Journalism Centre, Netherlands - Why are spiritual programmes flourishing on local private television channels? The reason seems to be that small channels have established a large amount of contractual agreements with psychics, in order to secure...
Italy Killings Underscore European Extremism Problem
by Annette Langer, Der Spiegel, Germany - The murders of African street vendors by a right-wing extremist writer in Florence have shocked Italy. Questions are now emerging about whether the gunman acted alone. But one thing seems certain, he was...
Racist Attack in Florence Markets
by Alessandra Bravi, Simone Innocenti e Federica Sanna, Corriere della Sera, Italy - “A cowardly attack, the result of ten years of hate, Fascism and racism from one political area”....
Politicans and Business Close Ranks Against Berlusconi
by Fiona Ehlers, Der Spiegel, Germany - Things are getting lonely at the top for Silvio Berlusconi. After members of his own party distanced themselves from the Italian prime minister, business owners are now calling for his resignation....
From Watchdogs to Witch-Hunters: Italian Mainstream Media in a Moral Vacuum
by Claudia Costa, European Journalism Centre, Netherlands - The Italian media landscape is a good case study for such degenerating ethical behaviour. With the main newspapers and television channels deeply immersed in the country’s never ending political struggles, unquestioned reports...
Nigerians Lured to Italy to Work in Sex Trade
by Juliana Ruhfus, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Thousands of women deceived by promises of regular jobs in Europe being forced to work as prostitutes....
Italy's 'Arab Spring'
by Federiga Bindi, Deutsche Welle, Germany - For Italy to finish its "Spring" - initiated in the early 1990s - there has to be a wholesale clear-out. Silvio Berlusconi's departure would not solve Italy's deeper problems and would probably have...
E-government in Italy: A Race against Time
by Claudia Costa, European Journalism Centre, The Netherlands - Even if on paper Italy seems to be on schedule as far as the actualisation of e-government policy is concerned, the situation on the ground as experienced by Italian citizens is...
Sarkozy and Berlusconi Are Prisoners of a Resurgent Right Wing
by Agnès Poirier, The Independent, UK - Since Tunisia's Jasmine revolution in December, Italy has seen 25,000 Tunisians arriving on its shore, all looking for a job. Unable to stem the tide, the Berlusconi administration has found a simple way...
Women of Italy Prepare for Trial of Berlusconi
by Andrea Vogt, The First Post, UK - Women entertained him. Women have been investigating him. Women will take the stand as witnesses both against him and in his defence. Women, en masse, are even seeking retribution because, they claim,...
Disenchanted Wash up on Italian Shores
by Catherine Viette, France 24, France - As popular revolutions topple one Arab regime after another, the migrants flocking to the Italian island of Lampedusa have become the flip side of the coin – the undesired effects that prevent Europe...
France and Italy Share Strong Ties with Libya's Gadhafi
by Daniela Stahl & Christoph Wöss, Deutsche Welle, Germany - France and Italy have condemned Libya's violent repression of anti-regime protests, but both European nations have a lot at stake when it comes to the oil-rich country....
Finding Help, Hate and Hope on Lampedusa
by Katharina Peters, Spiegel, Germany - As the tiny Mediterranean island of Lampedusa struggles with another influx of refugees, its inhabitants are torn about how they should respond. While some only see problems for their safety and livelihood, others are...
Italians Little Concerned at Limits to Press Freedom
by Megan Williams, Deutsche Welle, Germany - Italian journalists have to face both official and private pressure as they try to do their job. Most Italians don't seem to care....
Building a Sustainable Future With Straw and Wood
by Stefania Milan, IPS, Italy - Pescomaggiore village, destroyed by the earthquake that hit the mountain region of L’Aquila in central Italy on Apr. 6, 2009, is now being rebuilt by its 40-odd inhabitants with straw and wood....
'Berlusconi's Only Political Project Is Himself'
by Siobhán Dowling, Spiegel, Germany - Silvio Berlusconi's center-right coalition emerged victorious after regional elections in Italy this week. However, most German papers argue that this success has less to do with the prime minister himself than it does with...
L'Aquila Battles Despair, Inertia and Corruption
by Annette Langer, Spiegel, Germany - Eight months after a powerful earthquake struck the Abruzzo region of central Italy, many of its cities and villages still lie in ruins....
Human Trafficking From Nigeria Rises Sharply
by Sabina Zaccaro, IPS, Italy - An alarming rise has been recorded in the number of Nigerian girls trafficked to Italy....
"Soft Porn" TV Angers Italian Women
by Vanessa Mock, Radio Netherlands, Netherlands - Women all over Italy are sick and tired of the constant stream of nearly-naked women on television and on advertising billboards. It is fuelling Berlusconi-style "machismo" and dragging their country backwards, they say....
Italian Women Rise Up
by Chiara Volpato, New York Times, USA - Many outside Italy seem to assume that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gets away with his sexist behavior because Italian men condone it and the women at least tolerate it. But this is...
Women Take On Sexist Image in Italian Media
by Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, USA - Even before the brouhaha over “Noemigate,” the scandal sparked by the nebulous liaison between Silvio Berlusconi, the septuagenarian Italian prime minister, and the teenaged Noemi Letizia, Italian women had been pondering their...
'So Many Children Died Here'
by Annette Langer, Der Spiegel, Germany - Nothing will ever be the same for the Italian village of Onna, a tiny settlement located on the epicenter of Monday's deadly earthquake. More than one in every 10 people died in the...
"Soft on the Inside, Hard on the Outside"
by Dany Mitzman, Radio Netherlands, Netherlands - Once upon a time, there was a construction cooperative in the small north Italian town of Correggio, not far from the larger cities of Modena and Parma. It specialised in building houses. One...
Far Right on the March
by Brittany Peats, New Statesman, UK - Immigrants are routinely scapegoated for rising crime - incorrectly blamed on a recent influx of people from the former Yugoslavia and northern Africa. This fear is increased as “the media amplifies crime when...
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