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Generation Equality Forum Paris 2021

Generation Equality Forum: Paris 2021

The Generation Equality Forum is a global event aimed at advancing actions and investments for gender equality, and it will...

Last update 23/6/2021
29 refugee athletes to send a message of solidarity and hope to the world at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020

29 refugee athletes to send a message of solidarity and hope to the world at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020...

Twenty-nine athletes competing across 12 sports and from 13 host National Olympic Committees (NOCs) will be part of the International...

Last update 22/6/2021
Migrants in the central Mediterranean Sea.

OHCHR Report: A call to safeguard migrants in the central Mediterranean Sea

Asma,* a young pregnant woman from Burkina Faso, had to give birth in the perilous Mediterranean route from Libya to...

Last update 22/6/2021
Photo exhibit "Sons of a lesser god. Stories of palestinian girls and boys arrested by the Israeli army", Padua - Cortile Pensile, Palazzo Moroni, from 3rd to 18th of July 2021

Exhibition of photographs "Sons of a Lesser God. Stories of Palestinian girls and boys arrested by the Israeli army", Padova,...

From 3rd to 18th of July 2021, it will be open in the Cortile Pensile of Palazzo Moroni of Padova the Photo exhibition...

Last update 21/6/2021
Little kid collecting e-trash from the floor while framed by an old computer screen

First WHO report on e-waste and child health

The World Health Organization (WHO) published the first report on e-waste and child health. WHO suggests that more effective and binding action...

Last update 21/6/2021
The Anti-violence Centre in Padova opens the Sportello Marielle for young women who are suffering violence or harassment

The Anti-violence Centre in Padova opens the Sportello Marielle for young women who are suffering violence or harassment

The Desk (Sportello) is dedicated to Marielle Franco, who was an activist for feminism and a symbol of the different...

Last update 17/6/2021
Banner written: "covid-19 vaccination check-in"

Coronavirus pandemic in the EU - Fundamental Rights implications: Vaccine rollout and equality of access in the EU

On the 16th of June, FRA published the seventh FRA Bulletin on how the COVID-19 pandemic affects fundamental rights. Focusing...

Last update 17/6/2021
Picture of the annual report 2020: Human rights at the heart of COVID-19

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Annual Report 2020 - Human rights at the heart of COVID-19 response and...

Discrimination and inequalities increased enormously in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic spread, said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle...

Last update 17/6/2021
Fundamental Rights Report 2021 - The coronavirus pandemic and fundamental rights: A year in review

FRA Report 2021: The coronavirus pandemic and fundamental rights: A year in review

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights released the 2021 annual Report analysing the struggles to protect Human Rights in...

Last update 16/6/2021
Criminal Tribunals in The Hague

Bachelet and Nderitu welcome decision to uphold Ratko Mladić convictions and sentence

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet and Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on Prevention of Genocide Alice Wairimu...

Last update 15/6/2021
The Children's Rights Moot Court Competition 2021

Children's Rights Moot Court Competition 2021 -- University of Padova team among the Quarter finalists

Good news for the students at our university has just arrived from Leiden, where the fourth edition of the Children's...

Last update 12/6/2021
World Day Against Child Labour 2021

World Day Against Child Labour: Child labour rises to 160 million

This year’s World Day Against Child Labour focuses on action taken for the 2021 International Year for the Elimination of...

Last update 11/6/2021
Democracy and Governance Practice Retreat 2021: in Crisis and Beyond
The first annual retreat for European civil servants and society. 21-25 June, online

Democracy and Governance Practice Retreat 2021: in Crisis and Beyond The first annual retreat for European civil servants and society....

The first annual Democracy and Governance Practice Retreat will be held online on 21-25 June 2021. It will draw participants...

Last update 8/6/2021
Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy, 16th edition

Global Campus of Human Rights: Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy (16th edition)

Applications are open for the 16th edition of the Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy, which will take...

Last update 4/6/2021
Michelle Bachelet (on screen), UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, addresses the 30th Special Session of the Human Rights Council on the “Grave Human Rights Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem”, at Palais des Natio

Human Rights Council Establishes International Commission of Inquiry to Investigate Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and...

On 27 May 2021, the Human Rights Council (HRC) established an international commission of inquiry to investigate violations leading up...

Last update 3/6/2021