"The Nobel Peace Award is not given for what one has done but hopefully for what one will do."

This are the opening words on the blog page of the World Centers of Compassion for Children International website, a non-profit organization founded by Betty Williams, winner of the...

He was five years old when he first started to play with the metal letters of a rotary press. His father was a printer in a small town of Calabria, South Italy. Pippo, this is still his nickname, was very happy to share his playing time near his father while...

Euro deputy since 10 years, the first elected Vice president of the European Parliament is an Italian. He comes from a beautiful and forgotten Southern Region, Basilicata, where unemployment and emigration, especially among the youth, are still extremely high. For this reason Gianni Pittella is instead very active, in contrast...

This is the first time in Italy after Mussolini's fascism that the press is really under attack. Prime Minister Berlusconi, who owns almost the totality of the media in Italy, at the moment has no strong political antagonists to oppose his intention to silence the press. From his Villa Certosa...

There is a topic in Italy which is beginning to interest the rest of the world: the President of the Council of Minister's proclivity to lie to the public. Furthermore, when he is asked about uncomfortable truths, he not only continues to lie or refuses to answer, but also vehemently...

She was only 5 years old when she woke up one morning at the sound of gunshots coming from the garden. It was hard to overcome the fear but she and her brothers did, eventually. It was February 24, 1966, the military coup that changed the history of Ghana for...

Those who detain world power use the word inequality all too rarely, although during the G20 Conference in London, thanks to the presence of President Obama, the word was mentioned a little more. Inequality is what Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, former Italian President of the Republic, affirms in some of his...

While Obama ponders just how to improve the US economy through the implementation of clean energy production, in Italy, Berlusconi seeks a return to nuclear power, notwithstanding the results of a 1986 popular referendum that banned new development of nuclear power. In this sad landscape, however, there is good news....