Overview

Conditions and treatment of people in detention, both in prisons and migration detention centres, raised concerns of torture and other ill-treatment. Levels of violence against women and girls remained high. A draconian law unduly limiting freedom of peaceful assembly was enacted. Journalists faced threats, attacks and surveillance. Barriers to accessing abortion persisted. The government’s attempts to process asylum claims extraterritorially in Albania were stalled by the courts. Cooperation on migration with Libya and Tunisia continued despite evidence of serious human rights violations. Italy failed to surrender to the ICC a Libyan national arrested on an ICC warrant. Nearly 6 million people were living in poverty. Human-induced climate change caused thousands of deaths.