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[Events and Updates]

FRA: new report on Business and Human Rights - access to remedy

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) just published a new comparative report that looks at the realities victims face when they seek redress for business-related human rights abuses. ...

Last update 13 Oct 2020
Coal miners in Criseluna, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
[Events and Updates]

Civil society against the mining industry in times of COVID-19

Human Rights Centre “Antonio Papisca” of the University of Padua, having signed the collective statement of “Global Solidarity with Communities, Indigenous Peoples and Workers at ...

Last update 17 Jun 2020
Rapporto CIVICUS Monitor 2019
[Events and Updates]

CIVICUS: The Civic Space is severely under threat

The CIVICUS Monitor research shows that the Covid-19 pandemic has further accelerated the erosion of civic space, while health and economic concerns have taken the public stage, insidious power ...

Last update 17 Jun 2020
Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
[Files]

Preventive Mechanisms in the Struggle against Torture: monitoring Places of Deprivation of Liberty to prevent Human Rights Violations

Sofia Antonelli, holds a master’s degree in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance from the University of Padova. She recently got another master’s degree in Prison Law and Constitution ...

Last update 10 Jan 2020
Man during Beirut protests with a flag from Lebanon
[Files]

In Lebanon, People are taking back what belongs to them: Unity, Rights, public Spaces

Suddenly, what started as a small group of people going to the street to protest against the decision of the government to put a monthly 6$ tax on calls via Internet (Whatsapp, FaceTime…), ...

Last update 26 Mar 2024
Press release in support of women's right to a positive work environment and for government to take workplace sexual harassment cases more seriously
[Files]

Strong-Women Leadership in Africa: How women parliamentarians are changing the policy making in Uganda

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

Last update 21 Nov 2019
Madhesi protesters throw stones and bricks at Nepalese policemen in Birgunj, a town on the border with India, on Nov. 2, 2015
[Files]

The Constitution of Nepal: Controversies regarding Citizenship Rights and Political Representation in the Terai

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

Last update 21 Nov 2019
The flags of the 193 UN Member States fly at the Palais des Nations, seat of the UN Office at Geneva, after completion of the renovation of the entrance path to the Palais, known as “Allée des drapeaux” (meaning "Flags Way").
[Events and Updates]

United Nations: budget shortfalls seriously undermine the work of the Human Rights Treaty bodies

There are 10 treaties on human rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly establishing human rights protection Committees (treaty bodies): the International Convention on the Elimination ...

Last update 31 May 2019
Cover of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights' (ODIHR) “Guidelines on Promoting the Political Participation of Persons with Disabilities”
[Events and Updates]

ODIHR: Guidelines on Promoting the Political Participation of Persons with Disabilities have been published

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has published “Guidelines on Promoting the Political Participation of Persons with Disabilities” with the purpose to ...

Last update 2 May 2019
Campaign Logo with "50th Anniversary of the Human Rights Covenants"
[Events and Updates]

United Nations: remarks by the Deputy secretary-general on the anniversary of the two Covenants, New York, 19 November 2016

The Deputy Secretary-general of the United Nations made important remarks about the role of the Covenant on civil and political rights and the Covenant on economic social and cultural rights since ...

Last update 2 Nov 2016
Panoramic photo of the building headquarters of the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France.
[Events and Updates]

European Court of Human Rights: disenfranchisement of convicted prisoners provided for under Italian law does not violate the ECHR

With the Grand Chamber judgment of 22 May 2012 in the case Scoppola v. Italy (3), which is final, the European Court of Human Rights held, by a majority (16 to 1), that the disenfranchisement of ...

Last update 12 Jul 2012
[Publications]

Il diritto di voto delle persone con disabilità: “overinclusiveness is better than underinclusiveness”

Paolo De Stefani (2011)

Human Rights Academic Voice

Last update 30 May 2019
Meeting with Peyvand Mansura "Islam and Human rights in Iran", Faculty of Polical Science, Padua, 26 may 2010
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Meeting with Payvand Mansura, co-founder of the International Tribunal of Iran (Padua, 26-27 May 2010)

On the 26 and 27 of May 2010, the Human Rights Centre hosted Peyvand Mansura, an Iranian journalist who worked for the press agency Pars during the Shah regency. Peyvand Mansura served a ten years ...

Last update 27 Oct 2010