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House of Representatives
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Italian Parliament: the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture (OPCAT) has been ratified

Palazzo Madama facade, Senato della Reppublica
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The Foreign Affairs Commission of the Italian Senate approves the Bill for the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against torture

From left: Gianni Magazzeni, OHCHR; Marco Mascia, Director of the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua; ; Navanethem Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Antonio Papisca, Director of the Italian Yearbook of Human Rights
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The Italian Yearbook of Human Rights presented at the United Nations in Geneva

From left: Gianni Magazzeni, OHCHR; Marco Mascia, Director of the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua; ; Navanethem Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Antonio Papisca, Director of the Italian Yearbook of Human Rights
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Presentation of the Italian Yearbook of Human Rights at the United Nations. Geneva, Tuesday 26th June 2012

Session of the Human Rights Council, Geneva 2011.
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Study-trip to Geneva for the students of the University of Padua and of the European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation

Rashida Manjoo, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, 2011
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United Nations: the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women concluded her first visit to Italy

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United Nations: first fact-finding mission of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women in Italy

Wide view of Hall XX, where the Human Rights Council gathers, Palace of Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 2010.
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United Nations: Italy elected as member of the Human Rights Council for the period 2011-2013

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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").
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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”