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Italian Yearbook of Human Rights

ISSN 3035-5435
Amnesty International
human rights protection

Amnesty International: The 2026 Report on the State of the World’s Human Rights Warns Italy of Severe Structural Flaws

Palazzo Madama facade, Senato della Reppublica
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migration

Assisted voluntary returns should not be a means of ‘remigration’. A commentary on the decree-law 55/2026

Migrants arriving on the Island of Lampedusa by boat
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migration

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA): the Italian Hotspot Approach and fundamental rights challenges, lessons for the EU Migration Pact

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civic space

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA): report on the state of civic space in Europe and Italy

Papavero
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Occupied Palestinian Territories

A global coalition of researchers and social movements denounces extractivist energy corporations abuses: the case of ENI and Italy

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in a meeting
Council of Europe

Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe: oversight of the implementation of judgments against Italy on environmental issues, migration, and fundamental rights

Rapporto Liberties 2026 sullo stato di diritto
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rule of law

Liberties Report 2026: the State of the Rule of Law in Italy

Ethiopian migrants arrive on the shore of Obock, Djibouti
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migration

Towards the New Return Regulation: More Obligations, Less, Rights, and Pressures on Third States to Support EU Return Policies. An Analysis of the Return Regulation as Adopted by the European Parliament on March 26, 2026.

Advocates disrupt transfer of asylum seekers from Villawood
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asylum

Ruling Against the Police Headquarters in Vicenza and Venice: An Analysis of Judgments No. 616 and 617 of the Regional Administrative Court of Veneto

A child holding hands with his grandfather are standing on a car and looking at the horizon. The child waves a Palestinian flag and the grandfather has a keffiyeh on his shoulders
Occupied Palestinian Territories

In a Communication to Italy (AL ITA 9/2025) and ENI S.p.A. (AL OTH 149/2025), the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine and the Working Group on Business and Human Rights denounce their alleged complicity with Israel’s crimes in Palestine

Court room of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France
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European Court of Human Rights

Italy before the European Court of Human Rights in 2025: litigation and execution of judgments

A young migrant from Darfur waits to reach England from Calais, France.
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migration

The European Parliament approves at first reading the regulation on the return/deportation of third-country nationals irregularly present in EU member states. Stricter rules and fewer guarantees

International Criminal Court (ICC), in The Hague, Netherlands.
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genocide, crimes against humanity

The International Criminal Court confirms that Italy should respond to the Assembly of States Parties for failing to arrest Almasri

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European Court of Human Rights

European Court of Human Rights: Case Ferrieri and Bonassisa v. Italy, violation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights

prison conditions

VIII Antigone Report "I Don't Believe You Anymore": The Silent Crisis of Italian Juvenile Justice