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Challenges on the Protection and Integration of Refugee Populations

Rio de Janeiro, June 14, 2018 – On June 13 through the IRI (Institute of International Relations) under the coordination of Carolina Molin of the PUC (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro) and with the support of other departments, the second Chair Sérgio Vieira de Mello in Rio de Janeiro was made official with the support of UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) with the objective of accompanying and becoming more specifically involved with

Camps of Migrants, Persecuted Persons and Refugees

Rome, June 21, 2018 – If the XVII, XVIII and XIX centuries were classified, respectively, as Era of Reason, Era of Lights and Era of Revolutions, the Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman proposes for the XX century the designation of Era of concentration camps. It refers particularly to the extermination machines of Hitler’s totalitarian regimes, such as Auschwistz; and of Stalin, like Gulag (Cfr Bauman, Zygmunt, La vie en Miettes, expérience postmoderne et moralité, Ed. Pluriel, Paris, 2014,