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1 week ago | 
infomigrants.net | Valentina Maresca
The permanent lifelong learning center at the University of Bari (CAP UniBa), in the south-eastern Italian region of Puglia, has reached one of its key objectives after it was awarded a certificate quantifying the positive attention it granted to refugee students.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
infomigrants.net | Valentina Maresca
A verdict representing a milestone for migrants was issued on October 3, 2024, eleven years to the day after a major shipwreck off Lampedusa. On this meaningful anniversary, the European Court of Human Rights found that Greece had violated the rights of seven unaccompanied foreign minors at the hotspot of Samos in 2020.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
infomigrants.net | Valentina Maresca
On October 3, European parliamentary assistant and former migrant Ibrahima Lo was invited by the Municipality of Milan to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the tragic shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa. "October 3, 2013, is a day we will never forget, but similar tragedies continue to occur daily as men, women, and children drown at sea, met with almost general indifference," said Lo in an interview with ANSA on the eve of the anniversary, which marked the death of 368 people.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
infomigrants.net | Valentina Maresca
Hummustown, a Syrian food delivery enterprise, has turned a group of refugees into the protagonists of gastronomic excellence in Rome. The Syrian food delivery business saw the light in the Furio Camillo district of the Italian capital thanks to a fundraiser launched in 2019.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
infomigrants.net | Valentina Maresca
Ibrahima Lo's journey has reached a new destination. The 23-year-old author, who arrived in Italy at age 16 from Senegal to study after crossing the desert and experiencing detention in Libya, has become a parliamentary assistant for MEP Mimmo Lucano after finishing his second book. Lucano, the former mayor of Riace known worldwide for his progressive approach to migration, has been elected to the European Parliament with the Green-Left Alliance (AVS).
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
infomigrants.net | Valentina Maresca
Today, Ibrahima is 23 and a published author. His second book, "New journey -- My voice from the shores of Africa to the roads of Europe", comes out on June 15An only son, he decided to leave Senegal to pursue his dreams after losing both his parents. His mother died when he was 10, and his father when he was 15. "Although I always had good grades, the time came when I couldn't continue my studies," Ibrahima said.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
infomigrants.net | Valentina Maresca
The national premiere of the French feature film 'Les Survivants' (The Survivors) took place at the Francofilm Festival 2024, in Rome. The movie is the first work of the 33-year-old movie director Guillaume Renusson, who won the XXI edition of the Riff- Rome's Independent Film Festival. The movie has the patronage of Amnesty International in partnership with the NGO Emergency and Open Arms.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
infomigrants.net | Valentina Maresca
"In Eritrea, if you pay 5,000 dollars to corrupt government officials, they let you leave. The fee is lower -- 2,500-3,000 dollars -- if you rely on traffickers, and the journey is on foot," says Abraham Tesfai, 34, who reached Lampedusa 14 years ago and now lives in Bologna, in the northern Italian Emilia Romagna region. "I didn't know anything, and I fled, aware of the risk that I could die due to the 'shoot and kill' law.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
infomigrants.net | Valentina Maresca
The 34-year-old Abraham Tesfai has spoken to ANSA about an odyssey that saw him flee Eritrea to reach Lampedusa after crossing Sudan, Libya and the Mediterranean. Today, he lives in Bologna, central Italy, where he has become an activist. "In Eritrea, if you pay 5,000 dollars to corrupt government officials, they let you leave.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
infomigrants.net | Valentina Maresca
The documentary film 'A nord di Lampedusa' follows Vito Fiorino, an Italian man as he journeys through northern Europe trying to find some of the Eritrean migrants he helped rescue after their boat wrecked on October 3, 2013 off the coast of the Sicilian island Lampedusa. The film was shown in Rome in a room off Italy's lower house of parliament by documentary makers Alessandro Rocca and Davide Demichelis.
