Let’s celebrate Women’s Day by making a commitment to promote equality in all aspects of our lives

Today we celebrate the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day. This is indeed a very special day, as special as the women we are celebrating.

To me, women are very special because of the important role they have played and continue to play in my life.

Finally the Government has decided to open Italy’s borders once again to non-EU foreign workers by publishing the Quota Agreement (Decreto flussi). This is a document the Government publishes establishing the number of foreign workers who can be allowed to come to work in Italy.

There are two types of Quota Agreements; one for seasonal and the other for non-seasonal workers.

The latest which was published on 31st December 2010 was for non-seasonal workers.

Minister is wrong; immigrants don’t have same rights as Italians

When Home Affairs Minister Roberto Maroni said that regular immigrants have the same rights as Italians, I found it difficult to believe what he was saying.

There is something terribly wrong with the minister’s statement. Being the minister whose ministry is in charge of immigration, Mr. Maroni certainly knows that regular immigrants don’t have the same rights as Italian citizens.

He in fact identified one of the rights which immigrants don’t have: The right to vote. As if he didn’t consider it an injustice to deny immigrants the right to vote, Mr. Maroni went ahead to promise that as long as he’ll be the Home Affairs Minister, immigrants will never have right to vote.

Prepare to come back soon for another memorable FIFA World Cup on African soil

For so many years, we kept on repeating to the world that Africa would succeed in hosting the best ever FIFA World Cup. We can now proudly say that “We’ve done it!”

And we did it so well that it is almost impossible to find a single thing that went wrong.

The stadiums were ever full each time there was a match and the players and fans from all parts of the world were treated with great respect.