Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07ROME1940
2007-09-11 16:49:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Rome
Cable title:
ITALY: RESPONSE ON HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDTABLE AT 2007
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UNCLAS ROME 001940
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR G AND DRL/SEA
NSC/DEMOC
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL UNGA IT
SUBJECT: ITALY: RESPONSE ON HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDTABLE AT 2007
UNGA
REF: SECSTATE 125456
UNCLAS ROME 001940
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR G AND DRL/SEA
NSC/DEMOC
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL UNGA IT
SUBJECT: ITALY: RESPONSE ON HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDTABLE AT 2007
UNGA
REF: SECSTATE 125456
1. This cable responds to reftel request for information on
post's activities to promote democracy and human rights and
the Italian government's democracy and human rights
priorities.
2. In promoting human rights, Mission Italy has focused on
integration of immigrants, particularly Muslims, and
trafficking in persons, themes on which the Ambassador and
senior embassy officers regularly engage the Italian
government.
3. Over the last year Mission Italy has organized two major
conferences and a series of U.S. speaker, IV and VOLVIS
programs to address the challenges of integrating Muslims and
other immigrants, the need for inter-cultural and
inter-religious dialogue, and the relevance of the American
immigrant experience for European immigration policies.
4. In addition, as part of an on-going dialogue with Italian
policy makers, opinion leaders, government officials and NGO
representatives on combating trafficking in persons, Mission
Italy and Embassy Vatican have organized several DVCs and
VOLVIS programs, including a DVC with TIP Director John R.
Miller on "Supply and Demand: Behind The Business of
Trafficking in Persons" for fifty GOI and Vatican officials,
NGO and representatives and journalists.
5. The center-left Italian government has increased efforts
to fight trafficking in persons and assist victims, and
expanded the scope of operations of the Ministry for Equal
Opportunity to include human rights at large. Italy is a
member of the UN Human Rights Council.
6. The GOI's 2007 budget set aside funds to establish an
observer on violence against women. In 2003 the government
created the National Office Against Racial Discrimination,
which assists victims in cooperation with NGOs.
7. One of Italy's most significant human rights priorities
is its campaign against the death penalty. Italy supports a
moratorium on capital punishment, and ultimately the
world-wide abolition of the death penalty.
SPOGLI
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR G AND DRL/SEA
NSC/DEMOC
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL UNGA IT
SUBJECT: ITALY: RESPONSE ON HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDTABLE AT 2007
UNGA
REF: SECSTATE 125456
1. This cable responds to reftel request for information on
post's activities to promote democracy and human rights and
the Italian government's democracy and human rights
priorities.
2. In promoting human rights, Mission Italy has focused on
integration of immigrants, particularly Muslims, and
trafficking in persons, themes on which the Ambassador and
senior embassy officers regularly engage the Italian
government.
3. Over the last year Mission Italy has organized two major
conferences and a series of U.S. speaker, IV and VOLVIS
programs to address the challenges of integrating Muslims and
other immigrants, the need for inter-cultural and
inter-religious dialogue, and the relevance of the American
immigrant experience for European immigration policies.
4. In addition, as part of an on-going dialogue with Italian
policy makers, opinion leaders, government officials and NGO
representatives on combating trafficking in persons, Mission
Italy and Embassy Vatican have organized several DVCs and
VOLVIS programs, including a DVC with TIP Director John R.
Miller on "Supply and Demand: Behind The Business of
Trafficking in Persons" for fifty GOI and Vatican officials,
NGO and representatives and journalists.
5. The center-left Italian government has increased efforts
to fight trafficking in persons and assist victims, and
expanded the scope of operations of the Ministry for Equal
Opportunity to include human rights at large. Italy is a
member of the UN Human Rights Council.
6. The GOI's 2007 budget set aside funds to establish an
observer on violence against women. In 2003 the government
created the National Office Against Racial Discrimination,
which assists victims in cooperation with NGOs.
7. One of Italy's most significant human rights priorities
is its campaign against the death penalty. Italy supports a
moratorium on capital punishment, and ultimately the
world-wide abolition of the death penalty.
SPOGLI