Amnesty International: “Remember that you must answer. Italy and Human Rights” Campaign

A month before the national elections of 24 and 25 February 2013, Amnesty International Italy has launched the campaign "Remember that you must answer. Italy and Human Rights" submitting to leaders from competing coalitions and to all candidates a 10-points Agenda for Human Rights in Italy.

The 10-points Agenda for Human Rights are:

- To guarantee the transparency of police forces and introduce the crime of torture
- To stop the femicide and violence against women
- To protect refugees, to stop the exploitation and the criminalization of migrants, and to suspend the agreements with Libya on immigration control
- To ensure that prisons conditions are in line with human rights
- To combat homophobia and transphobia, and to guarantee all human rights for LGBTI persons (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex)
- To stop discrimination, forced evictions and ethnic segregation of Roma
- To create an independent national institution for human rights protection
- To impose to Italian multinational corporations the respect for human rights
- To fight against death penalty in the world and to promote human rights in the relationships with other States
- To guarantee control over the arms trade by promoting the adoption of an international treaty.

The Campaign invites people to interact with candidates by sending tweets and to solicit them to express their opinion in favor or against each point of Agenda and subscribe to its appeal.

The 10 points proposed by Amnesty International Italy are in line with those indicated by the broader Italian Agenda for Human Rights 2012 contained in the Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2012, edited by the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua and published by Peter Lang and by Marsilio Editori (Italian version). The Yearbook was presented to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on 14 June 2012, to the United Nations in Geneva on 26 June 2012 and to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome on September 20, 2012.

Last update

8/2/2013