Migrants Mediterranean crisis

Interview with Italy’s Permanent Representative to the UN on the war in Ukraine, Libya, women's rights, climate and the UN Security Council’s Reform

Researchers facilitated peer-to-peer biographical interviews and focus groups, so that interviewees could share their life experiences with “ample scope to express themselves freely.” 

Asked about the state of British diplomacy in the shadow of Brexit, the President of the UN Security Council Karen Pierce assured us that it is alive and well, and that thanks to the deals that had been made with...

UN Refugee Agency warns that a “ship-by-ship” arrangement it's not sustainable.

The United Nations just celebrated its first ever Global Migration Compact on Friday, yet countries like Italy continue to close their borders to African migrants leaving from Libya. As deaths continue in the Mediterranean Sea, what can the international community...

Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano, answering journalists' questions outside the Security Council, puts Libya and the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean at the center of the world agenda: “There the destiny of the world is at stake.” On future U.S....

"In Italia c'è un efficiente sistema di soccorso in mare, un impegno di cui andare fieri. Manca invece spesso un sistema strutturato e lungimirante, che sappia dare senso all'impegno di molte persone e che risponda in maniera adeguata alle esigenze...

Libya’s former revolutionary leader Muammar Gaddafi bloodlessly kicked out corrupt King Idriss, became Lybia’s de facto leader and stabilized the country. Per capita income rose and so did citizens’ living standards. Today with its constant strife, bloodshed, rising death toll...