INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE FORUM "STARTING FROM GIRLS WOMEN FORUM ON INEQUALITY AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH"

Roma | 07 April 2017
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

On the occasion of the Italian Presidency of the G7, the International Dialogue Forum"Starting from girls" was held at the Farnesina on 7 and 8 April 2017. Women Forum on inequality and sustainable growth", organised in collaboration with WE-Women Empower the World, the Aspen Initiative for Europe and Valore D.
Strengthening the rights and skills of young women is an indispensable condition for making them agents of change. Overcoming the gender gap is essential to ensure inclusive growth and development processes, in line with the priorities of our Presidency of the G7,"said Angelino Alfano, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
The Forum is based on the conviction that strengthening the rights and skills of young women is an indispensable condition for making them potential agents of change: the Forum aims to build an international alliance on women's empowerment, as an indispensable part of a more equitable and sustainable growth. A series of proposals for the G7 will be discussed, aimed at strengthening women's contribution to economic growth, their participation in the labour market, technological development and sustainability. Specific attention will also be paid to migration issues - "women on the move" - and to the evolution of the global care chain, with its implications for health and health systems.
The conference was attended by Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Among the participants are Maria Elena Boschi, Undersecretary of State, Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Rome; Valeria Fedeli, Minister of Education, University and Research; Beatrice Lorenzin, Minister of Health, Rome; Emma Bonino, President, WE-Women Empower the World; President of the European Council for Foreign Relations; Marta Dassù, President of the Aspen Initiative for Europe; Executive President, WE-Women Empower the World; Linda Lanzillotta, Vice President, Italian Senate; Vincenzo Amendola, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Rome; Mario Giro, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Rome; Benedetto Della Vedova, Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Rome; Princess Sarah Zeid, His Royal Highness of Jordan; Laurence Rossignol, Minister of Families, Childhood and Women's Rights, Paris;Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director Un Women, New York; Diane Jacovella, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs G7 Sous-Sherpa, Ottawa; Imen Ben Mohamed, member of the Ennahdha Party, Tunis; Marietje Schaake, Vice-Chairman of the Delegation for Relations with the United States; Member of the Committee for International Trade European Parliament, Brussels; Marc Benayoun, Chief Executive Officer, Edison, Milan; Diana Bracco, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bracco Group, Milan; Flavia Bustreo, Deputy General Manager, WHO World Health Organization, Geneve; Ilaria Capua, Director, One Health Center of Excellence, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Catherine Colonna, Ambassador of France in Italy, Rome; Elisabetta Belloni, Secretary General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Rome; Chantal De Jonge Oudraat, President, WIIS-Women in International Security, Washington, DC;  Veronica De Romanis, Standford University The Breyer Center for Overseas Studies in Florence; Maria Patrizia Grieco, President, Enel, Rome; Emerine Kabanshi, Minister of Community Development, Mother and Child Health, Zambia; Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, President, Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore;Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir, Chairman of the Executive Committee, WPL-Women Political Leaders Global Forum, Brussels; Meg Jones, Head of Economic Empowerment, UN Women, New York; Monica Maggioni, President, RAI Radio Italian Television, Rome; Marialina Marcucci, President, Robert F. Fondazione Kennedy d' Europa, Rome; Sandra Mori, President, Valore D, Milan; Monica Parrella, Director General, Department for Equal Opportunities, Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Rome; Lia QuartapelleProcopio, Member of the Italian Parliament, Rome;Gabriela Ramos, Chief of Staff and Sherpa at the G20, OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris; Simona Scarpaleggia, CEO of Ikea Switzerland and member of the Board of Directors of IKEA Food, Zurich; Hanna Serwaah Tetteh, former Ghana Foreign Affairs Minister; Lawyer,"Osafo Buabeng & Co"law firm, Theme, Ghana;Helle Thorning Schmidt, CEO, Save the Children, Fairfield, CT; Luisa Todini, Chairman of the Steering Committee, Project Grow-Generating Real Opportunities for Women, Rome; Manuela Tomei, Director of the ILO Work and Employment Status Programme, Geneva; Beatrice Trussardi, President, Friends of Aspen; President, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan; Susanne Marianne Wasum Rainer, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Italy, Rome; Avivah Wittenberg Cox, CEO, 20 First First, London; Alexander Zehnder, President and CEO, Sanofi, Milan.
The Fondazione Mediterraneo participated in the event.

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"EUROMESCO" NETWORK NEWSLETTER PUBLISHED

Barcellona | 01 April 2017
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The Newsletter of the EUROMESCO Network, founded by international research institutes, including the Mediterranean Foundation, has been published.
The next General Assembly with the Annual Conference will be held in Barcelona from 31 May to 2 June and will have as its theme "Tackling violence and terrorism in the Euro-Mediterranean area".

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CONFERENCE "NON-ACCOMPANIED FOREIGN MINORS: PROTECTION COURSES AND INCLUSION PRACTICES"

Napoli | 27 March 2017
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

More than 25,000 foreign minors crossed the sea alone to reach Italy in 2016, more than twice as many as in 2015: record year of landings in the Mediterranean and year of severe crisis in Europe in relation to the large flows of refugees and asylum seekers from the Middle East and Africa.
The conference, organized by the "Salesians for Social Affairs", by the association "Piccoli Passi Grandi Sogni Onlus" - in collaboration with the Fondazione Mediterraneo and the Museo della Pace - aims to give a perception of the complexity of the phenomenon, to enhance the good practices so far expressed towards unaccompanied foreign minors and to identify a strategy that allows to face the phenomenon in a concrete way.
More than 200 social workers and employees have confronted each other in the debate with the speeches of:
Michele Capasso, President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo;
Don Antonio Carbone, SDB, Chairman of "Piccoli Passi Grandi Sogni Onlus";
Giuseppe Acocella, Professor Federico II University of Naples;
Lavinia Bianchi, University of Rome Three
Barbara Trupiano, Naples City Council executive for policies for children and adolescence.

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60th ANNIVERSARY OF THE TREATIES OF ROME

Roma | 25 March 2017
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The European leaders in the Horace and Curiazi Room, in front of the document of' 57, called to sign a text to relaunch European integration in the next 10 years.
Juncker:"There will be a 100th EU anniversary”.
Gentiloni: "Return confidence to our fellow citizens".
Mattarella: “Start a constituent phase”.
One signature after another. Twenty-seven names have renewed in Rome a common dream and with the ink of the same pen that 60 years ago designed the first Europe, undersigned its commitment to defend its idea and unity.
For the Rome declaration, the European Heads of State arrived in the capital to reaffirm those wedding votes pronounced in 1957 in the eternal city, despite the divorce of an unsatisfied partner, the United Kingdom.
For diamond weddings, the 27 entered the Renaissance palace where on 25 March sixty years ago the Treaty establishing the Union was signed, and signed new key concepts: the unity of Europe, its indivisibility and the possibility for groups of countries to proceed faster than others in certain sectors.
"These are signatures that remain. There will be a 100th anniversary of the EU,"predicted European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on his arrival, but he also called "very sad" a meeting without the UK. The great absence was indeed the British Prime Minister Theresa May, who decided to start the complex process of separation from the European bloc next Wednesday. And it is a stormy Europe that is celebrating its anniversary today, which is riddled with winds of discord, doubt and popular distrust.
"The 27 must prove to be the leaders of this Europe,"warned European Council President Donald Tusk. "The Treaties will need to be revised, all of them.
Now begins a constituent phase" added after the signing of the declaration the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella.
Accomplished under the sun by Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, the Heads of State crossed the large square of the Capitol designed by Michelangelo, directed to the hall of the Orazi and Curiazi, which hosted six of them 60 years ago.
Europe "could die" if it does not rediscover the ideals of the founding fathers, as "solidarity" said Pope Francis to the Heads of State and received them yesterday in the Vatican,"but it can regain hope in solidarity, which is also the most effective antidote against modern populism".
After the solemn commemoration of the Treaties, the Heads of State went to the Quirinale to meet at 13:30 the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella. Welcoming them, he congratulated them.

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