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18 April Apr 2016 1115 18 April 2016 Matteo Renzi: European migration bonds will help us solve the refugee crisis
With the migration crisis ongoing, Italian Prime Minister Renzi has proposed an ambitious new finance solution involving enhanced cooperation with African states, and the use of euro bonds that would see EU countries issuing joint debt to stem the flow of migrants and strengthen African border controls.
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14 April Apr 2016 1640 14 April 2016 Women work more and earn less
The fight for women’s rights is far from over. This week was Equal Pay Day in the US, but the problem of pay inequality persists globally. The annual pay for women only now equals the amount men were earning ten years age, and the gender pay gap continues to be a global reality for women everywhere.
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14 April Apr 2016 1116 14 April 2016 Growing inequality for children in world's richest countries
UNICEF have released new figures that show growing inequality among children in high income countries. Israel was the lowest ranking of the 41 countries, and Denmark the highest. “As our understanding of the long term impact of inequality grows, it becomes increasingly clear that governments must place priority on enhancing the well-being of all children today, and give them the opportunity to achieve their potential,” says Dr. Sarah Cook, Director of the UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti.
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13 April Apr 2016 1508 13 April 2016 #MentalHealthNow: depression and anxiety are on the rise
When you’re sitting down at the dinner table tonight, look around. One in four of you will be affected by mental illness at some point in your life. Not only that, but the latest WHO statistics show that common mental disorders are increasing worldwide. Between 1990 and 2013, the number of people suffering from depression and/or anxiety increased by nearly 50%, from 416 million to 615 million.
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12 April Apr 2016 1509 12 April 2016 #endSH: Stop telling women to smile
This week is International Anti-Street Harassment week. Trending on Twitter with #endSH, people across the globe are speaking out against the endemic problem of street harassment.
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12 April Apr 2016 1209 12 April 2016 Welcome to Tropico Beach: Brussels takes a stand on #taxhavens
With the Panama Papers bringing the issue of tax transparency to the top of the EU agenda,NGOs such as Oxfam and Transparency International are calling for the EU to take decisive action on corporate tax transparency.
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11 April Apr 2016 1500 11 April 2016 Amnesty International: "Italy needs to end the forced segregation of Roma"
Amnesty International is calling for Italy to end its segregation of Roma in a recent blog post, stating that “Forced evictions of hundreds of residents from the camps of Lungo Stura Lazio in Turin and Via Idro in Milan in the last year...further underlines the prejudicial horror show that accommodation for Roma in Italy has become.”
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8 April Apr 2016 1451 08 April 2016 Tough new measures on those buying sex, prostitutes protest
Yesterday France became the fifth country in Europe to adopt the Nordic Model, which penalises the buyers instead of the sellers of sex. Feminists have hailed this as a landmark step for France and the fight for gender equality as a whole, but outside the French parliament sex workers were protesting the new measures. Why?
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4 April Apr 2016 1443 04 April 2016 Who are the migrants being sent back from Greece to Turkey?
Today marks the first day of deportations of migrants from Greece back to Turkey under the controversial EU-Turkey deal, agreed upon in Brussels last month. With most of the deported migrants coming from Pakistan and Bangladesh, Vita International takes a closer look at Pakistani migration flows.