Muzzled and Unheard – The Precarious Situation of Care Workers in Italy
Human Rights in Europe
Amnesty International EAAC
5.0 • 2 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to our first episode of our podcast series on care worker rights in Europe. In this episode we speak about the rights of care and health workers in Italy. In one of the countries with the oldest population in the world, working conditions in care homes are highly precarious and care work does not receive the appropriate recognition. COVID-19 has not only raised attention to the issue but also exacerbated working conditions for many care and health workers. Listen to our podcast with Debora Del Pistoia from Amnesty Italy to find out what Amnesty Italy is asking to change in order to create a sustainable care system for both patients and workers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to our first episode on migrant worker rights in Europe. |
| 0:12.0 | You did not know that that was a topic? Well then stay on and listen to understand why there are important human rights violations that need to be tackled. In today's episode, |
| 0:22.6 | we are talking about the urgent need to address concerns of care and health workers in Italy |
| 0:27.9 | specifically and a new report by Amnesty Italy about health and care workers during the pandemic. |
| 0:34.5 | The report called Muzzled and unheard in the Pandemic is part of a series of research |
| 0:39.7 | conducted by Amnesty International in various European countries on the impact of COVID-19 on the |
| 0:45.7 | rights of essential workers, most often migrant workers from Eastern Europe. Today we are talking to |
| 0:51.9 | Deborah del Pistoia from Amnesty Italy. |
| 0:57.0 | Deborah, may I ask you to introduce yourself to the audience? |
| 1:02.0 | Thank you, Mira and Joanna. Hello everybody. I'm Deborah. I work as a researcher for Amnesty International Italy. |
| 1:11.6 | We're very happy to have you here today. |
| 1:14.6 | You're the researcher behind this whole report I'm speaking about. |
| 1:17.6 | You're also a human rights activist and advocate. |
| 1:20.6 | Also with me today is Gerana, a country coordinator at Emnesty, UK, for Western and Northern |
| 1:26.6 | Europe, and equally a human rights |
| 1:29.2 | and employment law lawyer. Would you like to introduce yourself, Joanna? |
| 1:35.0 | Hello everyone. I'm Yovina. I'm from Amnesty UK here in London, the main campaigner for |
| 1:42.4 | employment rights in the EU, Western and Northern Europe. |
| 1:48.6 | And I've been campaigning on this particular report since it was issued by Amnesty Italy. |
| 1:55.5 | So I'm really happy to be here today and talk to the Boran mirror. |
| 2:00.0 | That sounds super. |
| 2:01.6 | Well, I'm happy to lead the interview with you, Joanna, today. |
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