Human Rights and Migration

Gender-mainstreaming in Italy: When assets are considered liabilities 0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed, Social and Economic Policy
- 29/11/2016
Gender-mainstreaming means bringing the interests of women and men to bear on the policy agenda to achieve gender equality. In spite of the literature quantifying the positive impact of higher female employment on fiscal sustainability and growth, Italy moves slow.
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Politheor’s Special Report: The Gender Agenda 5
- Human Rights and Migration, Special Report
- 25/11/2016
Why do we need a gender agenda?
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Does the EU ensure high level health protection for all?0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 18/11/2016
As much as Andriukaitis’ speech radiates optimism and progressiveness, there are at least two major problems with EU’s health policy on chronic diseases.
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Human Rights: None of your business?1
- Human Rights and Migration, International Trade, Op-ed
- 11/11/2016
Have you heard of the latest steps towards an International Treaty on Business and Human Rights?
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The challenge of integrating refugees into host countries’ labour markets 0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed, Social and Economic Policy
- 07/11/2016
In 2015, over 1.3 million people requested asylum in EU, representing more than double the number of applicants in 2014. During the first quarter of 2016, the number of persons seeking asylum from non-EU countries in the EU reached 287.100. The arrival of such an unprecedented number of asylum seekers poses an important challenge to the European Union and its Member States, that goes further than the humanitarian level and introduces the problem of socio-economic integration of the newly arrived refugees into their host countries.
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Why are we neglecting refugee women and children?0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 18/10/2016
Calais and Nauru. Two places in the world that could not be further from each other, both in distance and culture. However, there is one dark similarity that mirrors these two distinctly different regions; the astonishing human dumping ground that their governments have created within them. Dumping grounds we commonly refer to as refugee camps.
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