*[Enwl-eng] newsletter 16 June 2019

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# 31  sunday, 16 June 2019- edited by Ilaria Saltarelli and Martina Paterna 41st Congress of the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty (NRPTT) will be held in Rome from 5 to 7 July 2019 at Auditorium Antonianum (viale Manzoni 1) beginning on Friday 5th July at 11 am.   On Wednesday 12 june an amendment by the PD (signed by Sensi and Giachetti) to save the Radical Radio with a 3 million loan for 2019 was approved in the Budgetary and Finance Commissions. The League and all the other parties voted in favor, while the 5 Star Movement voted against. The European Court of Human Rights has published the sentence on the case of Marcello Viola v. Italy (no.2).  The European Court of Human Rights held, by a majority, that there had been a violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights. The case concerned an irreducible sentence of life imprisonment. The Court reiterated that human dignity lay at the very essence of the Convention system.The Court considered that the sentence of life imprisonment imposed on Mr Viola under section 4 bis of the Prison Administration Act (ergastolo ostativo) restricted his prospects for release and the possibility of review of his sentence to an excessive degree. Accordingly, his sentence could not be regarded as reducible for the purposes of Article 3 of the Convention. Read more Hong Kong. Hundreds of thousands of people have protested against the bill to allow extraditions to mainland China in the past days. Today organizers estimate that 2 million people have hit the streets in Hong Kong to protest, despite Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam suspended controversial proposal on saturday. Critics have said the legislation would expose people in Hong Kong to China's deeply flawed justice system and lead to further erosion of the city's judicial independence. Read more Iran will continue scaling back compliance with a nuclear deal unless other signatories to the pact show “positive signals”, the Iranian president said on Saturday as tensions with the United States escalated over tanker attacks in the Gulf region. The United States accused Iran of being behind attacks on Thurday 13 June to the two oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz (which separates the Persian Gulf from the Gulf of Oman, strategic waterway through which around a fifth of the world’s oil supply is transported), while Theran denied responsability. Read more Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warned the number of people facing critical lack of food in South Sudan is the highest ever. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) update released today by the Government of South Sudan in collaboration with the three United Nations agencies,an estimated 6.96 million South Sudanese will face acute levels of food insecurity, about 21,000 South Sudanese will likely face a “catastrophic lack of food access” by the end of July while about 1.8 million are set to endure “emergency” food shortage and another five million are expected to be in “crisis”. Read more   JOIN US

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