Thursday, June 15, 2017

An Italian mayor won an international award for helping migrants. Now, she’s been ousted by voters.

An Italian mayor won an international award for helping migrants. Now, she's been ousted by voters.

Two months ago Giusi Nicolini, the mayor of a small Italian island with a population of 6,000, received the prestigious UNESCO Peace Prize. Lampedusa, the island 70 miles from the Tunisian coast that she has been governing since 2012, has experienced the influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees over the past few years and […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/06/15/an-italian-mayor-won-an-international-award-for-helping-migrants-now-shes-been-ousted-by-voters/

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