Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Concluding observations on the combined nineteenth and twentieth periodic reports of Italy, CERD/C/ITA/CO/19-20, 17 February 2017
In its Concluding Observations on the Italian report, the Committee highlights a number of positive actions taken by the country. In addition to the efforts in the rescue operations of migrants and asylum seekers, it is appreciated the adoption of policies and laws in this area, including: law No. 67/2014 on the suppression of the criminal offense of illegal immigration, law No. 18/2014 implementing the 2011/95/EU Directive laying down rules on the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiary of international protection, the National Action Plan against Racism, Xenophobia and Intolerance. Further, Italy ratified the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure. Amongst the main weaknesses in the fight against racial discrimination in Italy are the lack of attention on hate speech and hate crimes, the inadequacy of “hotspots,” the insufficiency of the National Inter-ministerial Strategy for the Inclusion of Roma, Sinti and Caminanti in 2012, the psychological and financial exploitation of migrant workers, who do not have access to legal protection despite the law against the labour exploitation of migrant workers adopted in 2016.
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Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 9 of the Convention, Nineteenth and twentieth periodic reports of States parties due in 2015. Italy, CERD/C/ITA/19-20, 18 May 2015; Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, List of themes in relation to the combined nineteenth and twentieth periodic reports of Italy, CERD/C/ITA/Q/19-20, 30 September 2016; Law No. 67 of 28 April 2014, delegation of power to the government on penalty alternative to prison detention, and reform of sanctions. Provisions on the suspension of criminal proceedings with probation and on proceedings in absentia; Law No. 152 of 3 October 2014, Ratification and Implementation of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, done at New York on 10 December 2008; Law No. 195 of 9 November 2012, Ratification and implemention of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, done at New York on 18 December 2002; Law No. 199 of 16 November 2015, Ratification and implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure; Law No. 162 of 10 November 2014, Conversion into law, with amendments, of law decree No. 132 of 12 September 2014, containing urgent measures on alternative means for settling disputes and other measures to reduce the backlog of civil process; Law No. 199 of 29 October 2016, Provisions on fighting against the phenomenon of black labor, the exploitation of labor in agriculture, and on the reallocation of remuneration in the agricultural sector.
- Original language: Inglese