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Human rights approach needed for internally displaced people’s housing, land and property
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United Nations: Human rights approach needed for internally displaced people’s housing, land and property

The Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Cecilia Jimenez-Damary presented a report to the Human Rights Council, stating that an approach which engages ...

Last update 15 Jul 2021
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EU Agency for Fundamental Rights and Council of Europe: Strengthening human rights protection at borders

A new joint EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and Council of Europe note was released recently. The note focuses on effective remedies for human rights violations at the European borders. It ...

Last update 15 Jul 2021
online child sexual exploitation
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Independent experts’ report for CoE: Automated technology to detect online child sexual abuse must respect human rights

Independent experts’ report for the Council of Europe says the technology used to detect the online sexual abuse of children must respect human rights and the rule of law. The scale of online ...

Last update 12 Jul 2021
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Global Campus of Human Rights Conversations

The Global Campus of Human Rights is organising its fourth edition of Global Campus of Human Rights Conversations on 14 July. As the Covid-19 pandemic is exacerbating human suffering, widening ...

Last update 8 Jul 2021
Global state of human rights
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Global Campus of Human Rights: High-level conference on "Global State of Human Rights"

The Global Campus of Human Rights and the European Parliament is organising the Global State of Human Rights - High level conference. The hybrid event will take place on 16  July from10.00 ...

Last update 8 Jul 2021
country factsheets
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Execution of the European Court of Human rights Sentences: new data by country available online

The 47-nation Council of Europe has published a new series of online country factsheets providing information on each member state’s execution of judgments from the European Court of Human ...

Last update 2 Jul 2021
Stateless people and vaccines
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UNHCR Report: stateless people could miss out on COVID-19 vaccinations

The new report published by UNHCR on the impact of COVID-19 on stateless populations, warns that the latter have experienced particularly striking vulnerabilities from the start of the pandemic, as ...

Last update 27 Jun 2021
Woman Swiping the floor
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10 years on, domestic workers still fight for equality and decent work

Domestic workers are still fighting for recognition as workers and essential service providers even ten years after the adoption of a historic International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention that ...

Last update 27 Jun 2021
Olympic Games and Human Rights Violation
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Are The Olympic Games An Efficient Vehicle for Human Rights Reforms? The Case Of China

Giuseppe Scuccimarra 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 his master thesis discussed, in ...

Last update 26 Mar 2024
Migrants in the central Mediterranean Sea.
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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 Europe, while many other people on the same boat, including children, perished ...

Last update 22 Jun 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
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Exhibition of photographs "Sons of a Lesser God. Stories of Palestinian girls and boys arrested by the Israeli army", Padova, 3-18 July 2021

From 3rd to 18th of July 2021, it will be open in the Cortile Pensile of Palazzo Moroni of Padova the Photo exhibition "Sons of a Lesser God. Stories of Palestinian girls and ...

Last update 23 Jun 2021
Picture of the annual report 2020: Human rights at the heart of COVID-19
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Annual Report 2020 - Human rights at the heart of COVID-19 response and recovery

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

Last update 17 Jun 2021
Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy, 16th edition
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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 place from 30 August to 8 September 2021 at the Global Campus of Human Rights ...

Last update 4 Jun 2021
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1 June - International Conference on Climate Justice

The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence – Climate Justice and the international research team “Climate Change, Territories, Diversity“of the University of Padua are pleased to invite ...

Last update 4 Jun 2021
Humanitas podcast
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The Student Engagement Team launches a new podcast

The Student Engagement Team (SET), a social promotion association established by a group of master’s degree students from the Human Rights and Multilevel Governance (HRG) program at the ...

Last update 25 May 2021