Milano Hosts Human Rights Awards
Youth for Human Rights Italy holds its annual Human Rights Hero Awards 2018.
Every year, Youth for Human Rights Italy holds its annual Human Rights Hero Awards and 2018 was no exception. This time the prestigious event was held at the Teatro Gerolamo, near the famous Duomo di Milano cathedral. It opened with a stirring performance by Italian tenor Carmelo Sorce.
The event was sponsored by the Lombardy provincial government (Milano is its capital), the North Italy League of South American and Caribbean Consulates (representing 38 consulates), the Embassy of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Planet Foundation and the Church of Scientology of Italy.
Coinciding with the International Day of Africa, one of the three awards was bestowed upon Cristina Fazzi, a medical doctor who has been working in Zambia for 18 years helping those in need. Gianfranco Ranieri, a Rotary Club member, was the second awardee. An active humanitarian since 1979, he has directed an organization that has built schools in Kenya to help more than 15,000 kids. The final award went to the Rock No War Foundation, led by its President Giorgio Amadessi. The group aims to bring help and joy to areas that are underdeveloped and in poverty due to war. They have carried out projects on five continents.
The news of the newly anointed Human Rights Heroes ran on national news media channel TgCom 24, encouraging others to take up the cause of human rights advocacy and education.
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FACTS
HUMAN TRAFFICKING:
The UDHR states “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude” but slavery still exists today
50%
OF PEOPLE
caught in human trafficking are estimated to be children
2–4
MILLION
children are subjected to prostitution in the global commercial sex trade
600–800
THOUSAND VICTIMS
are bought and sold across international borders every year for forced labor or commercial sex
2–4
MILLION
are trafficked each year both nationally and across international borders
$32
BILLION
is made annually through the human trafficking industry globally
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