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The International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC/CPI), Netherlands.
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International Criminal Court

Comment on Italy's failure to execute ICC arrest warrant (the Almasri case)

university

National University of La Plata and UNESCO Chair “Economic Systems and Human Rights” launch DHumaS: a Postgraduate Degree for an ethical and sustainable model of economic development

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artificial intelligence (AI)

MOOC Course on Human Rights Based Approach to AI, Global Campus of Human Rights

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Iran's Literacy Movement Organization (LMO) are making efforts to integrate population and reproductive health messages at all levels of literacy classes in the selected provinces of Bushehr, Sistan and Baluchestan, Golestan and Kordestan and the semi-urban area of Islam Shahr, south of the capital, Tehran. The messages that are incorporated into the literacy curricula are on issues such as reproductive health, women's empowerment, and reproductive rights of women, gender equality, and male involvement in family life, education of the girl child and those related to adolescents. Some women bring their children to class as they haven't anyone to look after them. The student's ages range from nine to forty-five. Students at Navid Danesh girl's high school.
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Iran

Iran: UN experts identify human rights violation in the provisions of the new Law on Protecting the Family through the Promotion of the Culture of Chastity and Hijab

General Course “Pace e trasformazione nonviolenta dei conflitti” A.A. 2023-2024
university

Registration for the General Course (GC) “Peace and Nonviolent Conflict Transformation” is now open

Stylized image representing two faces, realized through the use of barbed wire
international days

International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, 27 January 2025

Un Secretary General Report 2024, Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
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migration

United Nations: Secretary-General's Report 2024 on Global Compact for Migration published

Hands tied with a chain. Victim of trafficking.
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trafficking in human beings

UNODC Global Human Trafficking Report 2024: an increase of 25% of victims

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technology

UN General Assembly adopts the Cybercrime Convention

Picture of the Italian seat on the occasion of a United Nations Human Rights Council
UPR

Human Rights Council: Italy to be assessed on 20 January 2025 for the Fourth Cycle of Universal Periodic Review

Journalist documenting an explosion at the Independence square, Kyiv, 2014
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freedom of the press

UNESCO: at least 68 journalist killings in 2024

civil service

Universal Civil Service at the Human Rights Center: call for applications open for the project "Youth Agenda 2030 make yourself seen, make yourself heard", deadline February 18, 2025

Memorial to the Victims of Communism and to the Resistance. From left to right: Petru Dunca, Carlotta Rossato, Mihai Barlea Gheorghe, Paolo De Stefani
Universal Declaration

Human Rights Centre visits the Baia Mare University, Romania

"Make Ecocide An International Crime Now" sign on the tarmac at a rally against climate change
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environment

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk: Ecocide as international crime

delegates arriving to attend the General Assembly
© UN Photo/Loey Felipe
artificial intelligence (AI)

United Nations: Resolution 79/L.77 adopted by the General Assembly on lethal autonomous weapons systems