Segre anti-discrimination panel to be set up again

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 19 - An anti-discrimination panel led by Holocaust survivor and Life Senator Liliana Segre is to be set up again after the Senate gave it unanimous approval Thursday.
    The House voted by 157 votes to nil to reconstitute the extraordinary commission for combating phenomena of intolerance, racism, antisemitism and instigation to hatred and violence.
    Segre, 92, was deported to Auschwitz as a girl and since the 1990s has been telling younger generations of Italians about her experience.
    The first Segre Commission found many cases of antisemitism and racism and took action against them.
    In 2019 Segre said that she was willing to meet League leader Matteo Salvini, after his party and other centre-right groups failed to back her proposal of creating an extraordinary commission against hate, racism and anti-semitism.
    The centre-right parties' abstentions on the proposal caused a storm, with the Vatican and Rome's Jewish Community among those expressing concern.
    The row was later settled and the first commission was set up.
    This time the Upper House gave its unanimous approval to the panel. (ANSA).