Restaurants Prepare For Jubilee in Rome

The council expects restaurant initiatives to prevent prices from gouging and to keep the tradition of fair pricing.

– By Michael Cunningham

Alpine Skiing On Changing Snow: Climate Change Is Melting The Apennines

A month of skiing is lost on Italy’s tallest mountain due to changing climate. The average number of days of snow has decreased from 65 to 45.

– By Neddie Clews

Offseason in Bracciano: A Vacation Town in Hibernation

Life continues for the 18,000 residents of Bracciano as they adjust to closures in town before the Spring-Summer season.

– By Colin Davan

How The Rise of Vintage Shopping in Rome Can Help The Environment

While the fashion industry uses up to 25 percent of the world’s carbon budget, Rome’s vintage shopping scene encourages slow fashion.

-By Ria Rahunanan

As Violence Intensifies in Lebanon, JCU Lebanese Students Report Stress and Inability to Focus In and Out of Class

– By Katerina Portela

‘I feel like my body came to Rome, but my head will always be with my parents and my friends in Lebanon.’

Genocide Or Self-Defense: Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Human Rights, and Meinie Nicolai, MSF Belgium Director, Address Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis at 2024 Internazionale Journalism Festival

– By Francesca Motta

At the Internazionale Festival of Journalism in Ferrara, Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory, and Meinie Nicolai, General Director of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Belgium, discussed the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Palestine.

An Inhumanist Analyst of Contemporary Palestine: STAND Hosts Lecture by Professor Donatella Della Ratta

– By STAND

Professor Donatella Della Ratta’s STAND lecture critiqued humanitarianism in Gaza, exploring desensitization to suffering and the ethical challenges of representing violence through an “inhumanist” lens.

Women’s Rights Organizations And Students Speak Up Against Gender Violence on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

– By Sofia Faid

With Non Una Di Meno leading a march in Rome, the feminist groups Be Free, Casa delle Donne Lucha Y Siesta, and Casa Internazionale delle Donne speak to The Matthew about gender violence. At the University of Padua, students honor the memory of classmate Giulia Cecchettin with ‘one minute of loudness.’

Women Report Sexual Harassment Under Article 726, as VIOLA App Marks Six Months of Supporting Women Against Gender Violence in the Streets

– By Iris Russo

Inspector Evelina Compare speaks on police report protocols in an interview with reporter. Street harassment in not a criminal offense in Italy since 2015.

JCU Students Reluctant to Report Street Harassment Near Campuses

– By Paula Gasser

Victim blaming and no ‘visible results’ discourage students from reporting street harassment in Rome. Student Affairs urges students to report and seek support.