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An activist holds anti-death penalty signs outside the US Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.
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United Nations: Volker Türk voices regret over first ever execution by nitrogen suffocation

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk expressed profound regret over the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith in Alabama, marking the first-ever use of nitrogen asphyxiation for capital punishment in ...

Last update 18 Feb 2024
Propaganda
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Building Narratives: How Propaganda in Democracies Can Change Our Perception of the World

Clelia Vettori holds a double master’s degree in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance from the University of Padova and International Relations and Global Studies from the University of ...

Last update 5 Jul 2022
Families in Tong Ping displaced persons settlement carry their newly received non food items back to where they're staying.
[Files]

The difficulties of international organisations in achieving peace: the case of South Sudan

Andrea Premarini holds a master’s degree in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance from the University of Padova. This article is an excerpt from “The role of international ...

Last update 7 Apr 2022
Guantanamo camp
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Close ‘disgraceful’ Guantánamo camp – UN experts urge incoming US administration

Exactly after 19 years after the establishment of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, on 11 January 2021, the UN independent human rights experts urged the incoming United States ...

Last update 12 Jan 2021
The International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC/CPI), Netherlands.
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US Government directly attacks the International Criminal Court and its judicial independence

The United States Government's decision to target and sanction individual staff of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is a direct attack to the institution’s judicial ...

Last update 29 Jun 2020
Unclassified report DINA operations and power
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How did the American Administrations (Nixon, Ford, Carter) react to the human rights violations of Pinochet’s dictatorship? An account of the United States’ relation with Chile (1973-1981) through its declassified files

Serena Salviato 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 March 2020 ...

Last update 3 Jun 2020
Neal Hall - The poet of human rights
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Neal Hall, the poet of human rights

Neal Hall, M.D. was born in Warren, Ohio. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University. After earning an M.D. from Michigan State University, he took his surgical subspecialty ...

Last update 6 Jun 2016
[Publications]

«Cause(s) for Action»: The Kiobel Reader on Corporate Liability for (Aiding and Abetting) Human Rights Violations

Antoine Meyer, Grégoire Fleurot, Romain Svartzman (2012)

Articolo / Saggio

Last update 9 Jan 2014
[Publications]

Remarks by President Obama in address to the United Nations General Assembly, New York, September 21, 2011

Documentazione (2011)

Documentazione

Last update 26 Sep 2011
[Publications]

Barack Obama and Herman Van Rompuy. New leadership to educate international politics

Antonio Papisca (2010)

Human Rights Academic Voice

Last update 30 May 2019
[Publications]

È superato lo scisma transatlantico? Barack Obama e Herman Van Rompuy per una politica internazionale educata

Antonio Papisca (2010)

Articolo / Saggio

Last update 8 Nov 2012
American interns Kathleen Kruckenberg (on the left) and Talin Galoosian (on the right)
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U.S. Platforms on International Treaties Legal Instruments (2009)

On October 24th 1945, the United Nations officially came into existence with the United States as a major signatory to the charter. Two years later, the United States Mission was created by the U.N. ...

Last update 13 Jul 2010
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The Evolution, Status and Future Position of American Environmental Policy: environmental action at the domestic level and in the context of international cooperation (2010)

The purpose of focusing on American environmental policy in specific was to evaluate the nation's position and level of progress over the years, and to review American policy in the context of ...

Last update 8 Jul 2010
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USA: Main University Research Centres for Peace and Human Rights (2007)

A census has been conducted on 37 research centres and has collected, for each of them, general information (the name of the structure, year of establishment, address, email, web site) and data ...

Last update 8 Jul 2010
[Publications]

Il nuovo Start, finalmente!

Alessandro Pascolini (2010)

Human Rights Academic Voice

Last update 30 May 2019