The contribution, through an analysis of the structure of article 12 of the Italian Consolidated Text on Migration (criminalising the facilitation of illegal entry) and of article 601 of the Italian Criminal Code (criminalising trafficking in human beings), aims at demonstrating that the two provisions constitute vital gear in a legislative mechanism designed to contrast human mobility as a whole. More specifically, the contribution follows two parallel lines of analysis: the first one aimed at highlighting the ways the anti-smuggling law can be applied in order to enable the prosecution of humanitarian actors, while the second one points out the way in which the abuse of the same provision permits to the Italian authorities to avoid the recognition of trafficking victims, consequently resulting in the missed fulfilment of the international obligations contracted with the signature and ratification of the Palermo Protocols.
Report held at Northeastern University in Boston on 23rd January 2020
Meeting of the Council of the EU
With the permission of the publisher Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre we anticipate below the abstracts of the works published in the latest issue of the journal "Rivista italiana di diritto e procedura penale" (n. 4/2019)
The author reviews the urgent regulatory measures adopted by the Italian Government to deal with COVID-19 outbreak, focusing on penal provisions, and proposing a view on the role that penal doctrine can play also in an emergency context
We report the publication of an "interim guidance" prepared by the World Health Organization about the possible methods to address the problems related to the spread of COVID-19 in prisons and other places of detention