Many countries are enacting measures to counter population decline, but manipulating fertility is an inefficient means of solving social, economic and environmental problems.
Crosses made of pieces of a migrant boat that sank off southern Italy in 2023.
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The story of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is no longer one of annihilation; it also includes the people who managed to escape the city.
Activists and residents of the Sicilian town of Cinisi march to honor the 46th anniversary of the death of anti-mafia activist Peppino Impastato.
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The idea is to create a new culture in which passive compliance with racketeering and extortion is not the default.
Andrea Mantegna, Minerva (Athena) expelling Vices from the Garden of Virtue, from the Studiolo of Isabella d'Este, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua (c. 1499–1502).
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Women’s participation in warfare is not a recent phenomenon. Women played many roles in the Italian Wars, which engulfed Europe between 1494 and 1559.
The body of socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti is discovered on the outskirts of Rome on August 16 1924, two months after his disappearance.
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One hundred years after the Italian opposition leader’s murder, documents long locked away at the London School of Economics could shed new light on Mussolini’s involvement in his death
A ‘hotspot’ detention center on the Greek island of Lesbos.
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The proposed EU asylum and migration reforms focus on securing borders and making it easier to deport people, with little protection for migrants and asylum seekers.
The cover for Clairmont and Claire Clairmont, by Amelia Curran (1819).
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Legendary European parliament president Simone Veil fought for women’s reproductive rights in France and in Brussels. Is her legacy about to be re-opened?
The Vesuvius Challenge incentivizes technological development by inviting researchers to figure out how to ‘read’ ancient papyri excavated from volcanic ash of Mount Vesuvius in Italy. Columns of Greek text retrieved from a portion of a scroll.
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However exciting the technological developments may be, the task of reading and analyzing the Greek and Latin texts recovered from the papyri will fall to human beings.
An illustration from Christine de Pizan’s ‘The Book of the City of Ladies.’
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By compiling stories about the accomplishments of women, Christine set out to build an allegorical city where women and their achievements would be safe from sexist insults and slander.
Shoes dyed red have become an emblem in Italy’s protests against anti-woman violence.
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On the wall of an orphanage in Venice, a musicologist encountered a fresco featuring an aria written for an opera. She’s since embarked on a project to bring this forgotten music back.
Three women executed as witches in Derneburg Germany in October 1555.
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham