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rule of law

Institutional Backsliding in Italy: Media, Civic Space, and Human Rights in the 2025 report of Liberties

Introduction In recent years, the world has observed democracy’s decline and the increasing political legitimacy of some policies and parties. The changing systems that form the framework of democratic accountability,...
1 March 1999,  Kosovar refugees fleeing their homeland.
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migration

The collapsing migrants reception and the involution of the Italian system: the ActionAid Report 2024

IntroductionIn recent years, the Italian reception system has undergone a radical transformation, moving from a model aimed at integration to one increasingly focused on emergency management of the migration crisis...
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Council of Europe

Follow-up decisions of the Committee of Ministers (CoE) adopted in 2024 on Italy’s implementation of the ECtHR judgments

Cestaro Group v. Italy (Application No. 6884/11). 1514th Meeting (3-5 December 2024) (DH) H46-21This case concerned the inhuman and degrading treatment inflicted by law enforcement officials during the 2001 G8...
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European Court of Human Rights

Article 2 and 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights: right to life and prohibition of torture in 2024 ECtHR case law - Part I

Articles 2 and 3 ECHR and the mental and physical health of detaineesA.Z. v. ItalyIn the A.Z. case (no. 29926/20, judgment of 4 July 2024), the applicant, who was born...