UN alert: Violence and Racism in Italy

It was UN High Commissioner Michele Bachelet, who during the launch of UN Human Rights Council works, held today in Geneva, has declared that “O The UN intends to send a working team to Italy to assess on the ground the reported increase in acts of violence and racism against immigrants and other ethnic minorities such as Roma.

Referring to austerity measures in immigration policies undertaken by Interior Minister Matteo Salvin, UN High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet has stressed that the Italian “government has denied access to its ports, rescue ships of humanitarian organisations and such political behaviour, followed by and recent developments, caused the devastating successor for many in need. ”

According to the UN commissioner, even though in 2018 the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean has decreased, their mortality rate during the first 6 months of 2018 is higher than that of the past years.

It's in the interest of every country to adopt migration policies that offer safe and fair moves, without sowing panic and without forcing people to commit dangerous actions to death”, Michele Bachelet has said.

To the UN commissioner's statement, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who has indicated that “Italia refuses to take a lecture from anyone, even more from the UN, proving to be biased and uninformed, as Italian Interior Ministry reports deny racist risk alarms in Italy. ”

Italian Interior Minister Salvin even attacks the UN, asking” to investigate its other member states, where fundamental rights such as freedom and equality between husband and wife are ignored.

The <x0thlalia, Salvin said, has housed over 700 thousand immigrants in recent years, and has not had the co-operation of other European countries. ”