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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report on trafficking in persons
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United Nations: the 2020 UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has published its fifth global report on trafficking in persons. It covers 148 countries and provides an overview of patterns and flows of ...

Last update 10 Feb 2021
Prospects for children: a global outlook through 2025
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Prospects for children: a global outlook through 2025

The UNICEF Office of Global Insight and Policy published the report “Prospects for children: a global outlook through 2025”, which assesses the prospects for the world’s children ...

Last update 5 Feb 2021
2021: International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour
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2021: International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour

The International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with the Global Partnership Alliance 8.7, launches 2021 as the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, with the aim of ...

Last update 29 Jan 2021
The Largest Refugee Camp in Greece
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Little Lives on Hold: The Impact of EU Securitisation Policy Tools on Unaccompanied Children’s Rights at the Greek-Turkish Border

Alessandra Boraso holds a master’s degree in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance from the University of Padova. This In Focus article is an excerpt from her master thesis ...

Last update 26 Mar 2024
Displaced Syrian women and children at al-Hol
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Citizenship Revocation as Punishment and the Abandoned Women and Children of IS

Rachel Aylward holds a master’s degree in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance from the University of Padova. This In Focus article is an excerpt from her master thesis discussed ...

Last update 26 Mar 2024
Cover Peace Human Rights Governance Journal PHRG - 2017
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PHRG - Peace Human Rights Governance: the November issue is out

The last issue of 2020 of the University of Padova Human Rights Centre's scientific journal, Peace Human Rights Governance (PHRG), has been released (PHRG 4(3), November 2020). The issue ...

Last update 5 Dec 2020
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International Conference on Multilevel Governance and Children's Rights, 2 December 2020

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the CRIMG project is organising the International Conference on “Multilevel ...

Last update 1 Dec 2020
Right to a Better World, report 2020
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"Right to a Better World" - a documentary video series by the United Nations

The United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, in cooperation with the Oxford Human Rights Hub (OxHRH), the World Health Organization (WHO) and HRP (the UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World ...

Last update 27 Nov 2020
Children deprived of liberty
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Global Campus of Human Rights: MOOC on Children Deprived of Liberty: Enacting the Recommendations of the UN Global Study. Free enrolment until 27 December 2020.

The Global Campus launched its new MOOC on Children Deprived of Liberty: Enacting the Recommendations of the UN Global Study. In 2019 the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty denounced ...

Last update 17 Nov 2020
10 EU initiatives to combat COVID-19 and ensure recovery
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European organisations and bodies

Council of Europe (CoE) (DH-BIO) Strategic Action Plan on Human Rights and Technologies in Biomedicine (2020-2025), 26 June 2020.  The Anti-discrimination, diversity and inclusion ...

Last update 30 Nov 2020
COVID-19 public health mural in Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya April 14, 2020
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United Nations System

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) Statement on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and economic, social and cultural rights, 17 April 2020.  Department of ...

Last update 30 Nov 2020
European Anti-trafficking Day 2020
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European Anti-trafficking Day: Human trafficking will not be tolerated

In a statement to mark the European Anti-Trafficking Day, the Council of Europe's Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) called for full respect for the rights of ...

Last update 29 Oct 2020
Counter Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia (SEA)
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Global Campus of Human Rights: Online Course on Counter Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia (SEA)

The Global Campus of Human Rights is expanding its educational offer with an Online Course on Counter Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia. It is going to examine the programmes, practices ...

Last update 24 Sep 2020
 Regional index on child maltreatment in Italy 2020
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Cesvi: Regional index on child maltreatment in Italy 2020

Cesvi, an Italian NGO, has published the third edition of the regional index on child maltreatment in Italy, entitled “Giving back the future (Restituire il Futuro)”. The current ...

Last update 24 Sep 2020
Figure 1 Protective accompaniment of Palestinian schoolchildren
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Civilians Protecting Civilians: A Case-Study of Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) of Human Rights in At-Tuwani, Palestine

Michela Pugliese holds a master's degree in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance from the University of Padova. This In Focus article is an excerpt from her master thesis discussed, in March ...

Last update 8 Apr 2020