by Massimiliano Fanni Canelles Are 43, according to Amnesty International, the States continued to apply the death penalty. In some of these, the measure is intended only for particularly serious crimes, like murder, in others, even for crimes like robbery, rape, adultery. Japan and the United States are the only two members of the G8…
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The school integration of human rights and money
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by Massimiliano Fanni Canelles The article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights specifies how important education is for each individual and how this should allow the development of personality and “the reinforcement of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms “. Our national law must also take into account these principles…
The victims of AIDS
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by Massimiliano Fanni Canelles The HIV epidemic is born in Africa in the Sub-Saharan, and in this region is the leading cause of death. From this area, the disease has spread to every region of the Earth. Today, in the world, there are 33.2 million people living with HIV. Each year, nearly 80,000…
A new italian risorgimento
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In the 2011 Italy will celebrate its 150 years. United itself in the age of the Risorgimento, thanks to the diplomacy of Cavour, Garibaldi’s courage and, above all, the work of Giuseppe Mazzini. Writer, thinker, politician, founded the Giovine Italia, a secret association founded for the purpose of achieving the desired national unity. The celebrations…
The verb read cannot support the imperative
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I do not have time to read. The statement is increasingly recognized and used. In a society characterized by the frenetically search of every possible minute to deal with daily tasks, reading often becomes an impediment. For staying in touch with the events that surround us, the choice is almost always more immediate information channels,…
The new frontier
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It was the ’70s when French Anderson sent the New England Journal of Medicine article which anticipated the possibility of cure hereditary diseases by inserting genes into the body by replacing missing or defective ones. “Unprintable because only fiction,” said the magazine. In 1990, Anderson and Michael Blease managed the impossible and concluded the first…
Civil partecipation
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The world has not recovered yet from the financial disaster caused by sub prime mortgages that Goldman Sachs, one of the largest and well established investment banks in the world, is put under investigation for speculation. The Greek government bonds were downgraded to junk, almost an objection of the Argentine crisis some years ago. Our…
New feudal lords and serfs
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In 2000, 189 Heads of State and Government signed the Millennium Declaration. We are committed to liberate all persons from “abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty” and “make the right to development a reality for everyone.” The objective is still far away: the global economic crisis and rising commodity prices have weakened the improvements…
The man who lived in the future
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The international scientific community continues to publish reports highlighting the risks to which we are exposing the Earth, our home: Emissions of greenhouse gases change the climate because of their potential for global warming (Global Warming Potential, GWP); industrial pollution, urban, agricultural, military, is responsible for chemical contamination and that particulate pollution and poison food,…
Death penality
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In the Italian Penitentiary Institute, every year die of natural causes more than 100 prisoners. Rarely the newspapers will give the news. Sometimes, the death is due to cardiovascular disease; sometimes it mark the epilogue of the chronic disease or a hunger strike or even in a suicide, that in the prison has a frequency…
