Rome (NEV), June 22, 2017 – The 14th edition of the Marco Luchetta International Journalistic Prize, tonight will give its Special Award 2017 to the “Humanitarian Corridors” project, promoted ecumenically by the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI), the Waldensian Board and the Community of St. Egidio. The FCEI vice president Christiane Groeben, will withdraw the recognition on behalf of FCEI, at the Politeama Theatre “Rossetti” in Trieste. The event will be broadcast by the National TV Program RaiUno from 8.30 PM.
“It is a great honor to receive this consideration” said Paolo Naso, coordinator of the FCEI Mediterranean Hope project. This is the confirmation and a further demonstration that civil society is able to respond to the needs of the protection of human rights and people’s lives: in this particular case the refugees coming to Italy from Lebanon through our project”.
Among the motivation of the Luchetta Foundation for their Special Award 2017, we read: “we award the prize to a dream which can and must become a reality: a call to Europe to become protagonist of reception”.
The Prize was set up after the vile attack causing the death, on January 28, 1997, in Mostar Est (Bosnia-Herzegovina), of an Italian Television troupe of Trieste that was making a special service to propose the children victims of the Balkan war for the Nobel Prize for peace. The initiative is in the memory of Marco Lucchetta, Alessandro Ota and Dario Ota. Also the cameraman Miran Hrovatin and the journalist Ilaria Alpi, killed in Mogadiscio (Somalia), are remembered in this event. Every year the recognitions are endowed to world journalists, photographers and cinematographers able to tell with special sensitiveness the difficult theme of violence on children.
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