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American interns Kathleen Kruckenberg (on the left) and Talin Galoosian (on the right)
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U.S. Platforms on International Treaties Legal Instruments (2009)

Wide view of Hall XX, where the Human Rights Council gathers, Palace of Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 2010.
© Centro Diritti Umani - Università di Padova
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The study trip to the UN headquarters in Geneva, for University of Padua students of the Master's degree in "Institutions and politics of human rights and of peace", is finally concluded

External view of the Palace of Nations in Geneva. A globe stands in front of the Palace, the work of sculptor Paul Manship, a metal sphere, the inside of which contains figures representing the zodiac weaved with one another.
© UN Photo
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Study trip to Geneva of post-graduate students on human rights of the University of Padua (9 - 13 May 2010)

Insignia of Italian Republic
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Public meeting on the Italian Parliament's Prospects of Ratification and Implementation of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture (OPCAT), University of Padova, 26 March 2010

Four workers laying down 4 of the 12 stars of a large representation of the flag of the Council of Europe during a celebration.
© Consiglio d'Europa
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1st Thematic NPM Workshop on “The role of NPMs in preventing ill-treatment in psychiatric institutions”, Padua (Italy), 24-25 March 2010

The United Nations Human Right Council in session.
© UN Photo
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The activity of the Italian Committee for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

Image: two children play with yellow tanks in Gaza (photo taken from the Red Cross (ICRC) Report "GAZA 1.5 million people trapped in despair").
© ICRC
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United Nations: More children in school and fewer dying; But 1 billion children still deprived of food, shelter, or clean water”

President of the United States of America Barack Obama and Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki Moon, seated next to each other on an airplane.
© UN Photo
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The Human Rights Center of the University of Padova enthusiastically applauds the conferment of the Nobel Peace Prize for Peace to President Barack Obama

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Article 51 of the United Nations Charter: exception or general rule? The nightmare of the easy war -

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Working Document of the International Seminar ‘Reclaim Our UN’, Padua, 19-20 November 2004