Monday, January 9, 2012

Crescono le rimesse degli immigrati

Crescono le rimesse
degli immigrati

ATTUALITÀ

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Sono consistenti le rimesse dall’Italia all’estero. Gli immigrati residenti nella nostra provincia nell’anno 2010 hanno inviato ai loro parenti nei paesi d’origine più di 59 milioni di euro. A livello nazionale sono 6,3 miliardi, su 37 dichiarati al fisco. Sono soldi guadagnati nell’attività lavorativa in Italia e risparmiati per sostenere famigliari lontani. Una cifra che è cresciuta nel tempo. Nell’anno 2005 i trasferimenti da Reggio sono stati di 25,5 milioni di euro, nel 2006 di 36,8, nel 2007 di 43,3, nel 2008 di 45,9, nel 2009 di 49,9 e nel 2010 di 59,3 milioni.

Gli stranieri in provincia di Reggio sono circa 69mila, di cui 61mila di origine extra-comunitaria. I canali di trasferimento del denaro sono in primo luogo i money transfer, i cui gestori, autorizzati dalla banca d’Italia, effettuano le operazioni di movimentazione della valuta con obbligo di identificazione del cliente. Queste attività sono svolte anche dalle banche, in base a un accordo interbancario, e dalle Poste. I money transfer hanno costi meno elevati. Poi ci sono canali irregolari, che sfuggono alle statistiche, ma sono stimati a livello nazionale in un terzo dei trasferimenti regolari. Trasferire denaro per via ufficiale ha un costo piuttosto elevato, superiore al 7% della somma versata, anche se c’è un impegno del governo italiano di ridurlo al 5%.

La comunità più attiva nell’invio di denaro è quella cinese. I cinesi a Reggio sono poco più del 7% del totale degli stranieri presenti, ma effettuano il 23% delle rimesse. Nel 2010 da Reggio sono stati destinati alla Cina 13,5 milioni di euro. Seguono il Marocco con 5 milioni, la Romania con 4,4, la Georgia con 4,2, l’India con 3,1, la Nigeria con 2,8, l’Ucraina con 2,2 e il Brasile con 2 milioni. A livelli più bassi tutti gli altri paesi.

di Gian Piero Del Monte
© RIPRODUZIONE RISERVATA

http://www.telereggio.it/2012/01/09/rimesse-immigrati-money-transfer/

Sunday, December 25, 2011

MERRY CHRISTMAS.......Michael Bublé - "Christmas" Medley Clip

HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE
BUON NATALE A TUTTI

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Senegal calls for inquiry into Florence murders

City offers sympathy to Senegalese community

14 December, 13:37

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(ANSA) - Florence, December 14 - The government of Senegal on Wednesday expressed its indignation over the brutal killing of two Senegalese street vendors in Florence and called for a "full inquiry into the incident".

The government issued a statement through Agence France Press news agency after the two men were gunned down and three others were wounded by right-wing extremist Gianluca Casseri who killed himself after the shootings on Tuesday.

The city's professional soccer team Fiorentina cancelled a youth festival on Wednesday and called for a day of mourning after the shootings shocked the city.

The three wounded men, who are also Senegalese, are in a serious but stable condition. Florence's city council issued a statement, also translated into French and English, saying: "The city of Florence offers its sympathy to the Senegalese community".

Mayor Matteo Renzi met community officials on Wednesday and was to meet Minister for Cooperation Andrea Riccardi to discuss the murders.

Police manned the streets in front of the city's cathedral or Duomo late Tuesday when members of the Senegalese community took to the streets to protest against the killings.

Many Senegalese closed their stalls in the San Lorenzo market area in the city's historic centre where the second wave of shootings took place.

A banner erected in the area said: "No to racism. We are closed in a sign of solidarity for the victims of racism".

The city called for a minute's silence to remember the victims and the council was to hold a special meeting late Wednesday to discuss the killings.

http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2011/12/14/visualizza_new.html_13721707.html

Friday, December 2, 2011

Non fa sesso con la moglie: condannato

Non fai più sesso con tua moglie? Devi risarcirla. In Francia, almeno, funziona così. Un giudice, infatti, ha condannato un uomoa versare alla moglie un risarcimento di 10 mila euro per non aver ottemperato agli obblighi sessuali contratti con il matrimonio. La sentenza, che sta facendo discutere tutto il Paese, è stata emessa dalla Corte d'Appello di Aix-en-Provence. La coppia è sposata da 21 anni, ma negli ultimi anni il matrimonio sarebbe diventato «bianco».

Sesso per entrare all’Università

Pur di evitare rapporti con la moglie, l'uomo ne avrebbe inventate di tutti i colori: dai falsi problemi di salute fino alla stanchezza cronica. La moglie, invece, ha cercato in tutti i modi di riaccendere la passione con il padre dei suoi due figli, inutilmente. Così, dopo tanti fallimenti, la signora ha deciso di rivolgersi ai giudici, presentando loro una «prova» inoppugnabile: una lettera con la quale il marito le spiegava di essere troppo stanco per «onorare gli obblighi matrimoniali».

Le adolescenti e il sesso telematico

La Corte d'Appello, considerato che l'articolo 1382 del codice civile stabilisce che «ogni persona che produce un danno a un altro soggetto deve riparare tali danni», ha condannato l'uomo al risarcimento. Confermata la condanna di primo grado emessa da un tribunale di Nizza. I giudici, insomma, stanno tutti dalla parte della moglie.

http://it.notizie.yahoo.com/non-fa-sesso-con-la-moglie--condannato.html?nc

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Ojukwu is dead

The former leader of Biafra died in London at the age of 78

Article | November 26, 2011 - 9:22am | By Chidi Okoye

The leader of the All Progressive Grand Alliance party (APGA), and former leader of the defunct Biafra, Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu has been confirmed dead.
The Ikemba, who has been receiving treatment in a hospital in the United Kingdon since he suffered a stroke in December 2010, died on Friday night.
It will be recalled that Ojukwu's 78th birthday was celebrated in absentia on November 5.

Sunday, November 6, 2011

EMPOWERING AFGHAN WOMEN

Q&A: Al Jazeera meets photojournalist Reza

After witnessing inequality, veteran photojournalist Reza started Aina, a media training NGO to empower Afghan women.

D. Parvaz Last Modified: 04 Nov 2011 18:39

One of Aina's students, Mehria Aziz, co-directed the Emmy nominated Afghanistan Unveiled [Reza Deghati]

Reza, who goes only by his first name, has spent 25 of his 30-year career as a photojournalist in war zones. In that time, he noticed the real cost of war - the destruction of cultures and of human relations.
He then noticed that in Afghanistan - where he's spent a lot of time since the early 1980s - most NGOs tend to focus on rebuilding the things that have been physically destroyed by bombs. In other words, schools were built, but little attention was paid to where the education provided in those buildings would come from.
Motivated by a heady mixture of frustration and hope, in 2001 Reza - a celebrated Paris-based photojournalist and documentarian for National Geographic - sold off some of his own prints and equipment to kick off Aina (Farsi for "mirror"), a program aimed at providing media media training to women (whose stories he said male foreign correspondents could not tell) and educational material to children.
In the decade that has past, Aina has trained at least 500 Afghan women in audio and video techniques, teaching them how to report, photograph and document their own lives. Aina has also produced an educational magazine, Parvaz (pronounced Par-vaaz and no relation to this writer) and completed pilot projects in Sri Lanka, Uganda and more.
Reza, who had started informal photography training in Pakistani refugee camps in 1983, spoke to Al Jazeera when he was at the World Innovation Summit for Education in Doha, Qatar, participating on the "Learning from Game Changers" panel.
Parvaz: Tell us about your first trip to Afghanistan - what was the situation like then?
Reza: The fist time was in 1983, when Afghanistan was occupied by the Russian army. I was working for Time magazine at the time ... During the Russian invasion, Afghanistan was still a really old, traditional country, and the Russians were really trying to emancipate Afghan women, and this was the biggest mistakes the Russians made. They tried to push women to the front too fast, and it created a lot of reactions [among] the people.
Parvaz: Then you kept going back.
Reza: I kept going back. I was there for the collapse of the Russians and the pro-Russian government, and I went there many times during the time of the Taliban, all during times of war. And this was not only a photographer, In 1990, I worked as the director of operations for the United Nations in Afghanistan, so I was very engaged with the condition of women there.
Parvaz: Does what's being reported about the state of Afghan women comport with what you're observing on the ground?
Reza: First of all, even the female journalists coming from the outside and trying to work with Afghan women, they are not really allowed to enter the intimate lives of the women because they are somehow always surrounded by male drivers, male interpreters, male security - that's whey even foreign women don't have a chance to intimately understand Afghan women.
The only way to have the stories told was to train Afghan women themselves. And through their eyes, we were able to hear and see much deeper stories.
Parvaz: So there's no reluctance for these women to tell their stories, they just need the right way to tell it.
Reza: They need to be able to really work with people who they trust. When we train women there, they work with other Afghan women. And they have all suffered the same things.
Parvaz: The US invaded/occupies Afghanistan for a number of stated reasons, one of them to improve the state of human rights in the country, especially for women. Have things improved for women there?
Reza: The way that foreign countries came and started to emancipate women was wrong. For them it was "Hey, everybody, let's take off the burqas and go out onto the street. Even better with a miniskirt." This is the concept of freedom that was shown to them by international organisations, while we know how many generations it takes to bring cultural change to a country.
They don't want miniskirts, but they want rights - they want to be educated, they want access to jobs, they want equality. But all this, when you look at the Afghan culture, it takes time ... When Afghans see women in Bermuda shorts, wearing sleeveless shirts and no bra, talking to men on American military bases, they ask me: "Is this democracy?"
Parvaz: Has the situation for women improved, and how, specifically?
Reza: Yes.They're not living under the Taliban now and they have more economic comforts.
There are more women getting educated, and what my organisation is doing is training as many women as possible to enter communication and information centres.The effects of this will show in two or three generations, when more and more women will be running media organisations. And what they are writing, producing and broadcasting now comes from Afghan women, and they know how to spread their words and their education ...even if the Taliban come back into power, these women are there as the seeds of the resistance.
Parvaz: What is the future for women in Afghanistan?
Reza: It will be very tough. They were given false signals by the coalition forces that they would get freedom - [the] same for Afghan men, but women suffered more. Aina will stay there after US forces leave - I've been there for 30 years. I've seen Russians coming and leaving; I've seen Taliban coming and leaving, I've seen al-Qaeda coming and leaving, I've seen Pakistan's army coming and leavin

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/11/201111425558372171.html