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Workshop "Cultural and Value Roots for intercultural dialogue in a European context"( 25-26 October 2011)

In the framework of its thematic network activities on capacity building and curriculum development in the area of intercultural dialogue and multi-level governance the Jean Monnet Centre of ...

Last update 11 Nov 2011
Sculpture made of small caliber weapons, used as raw material to educative laboratories for trainee blacksmiths, from the exposition "To Be Deter-mined/At Arms Length", promoted by the Cambodian government in cooperation with the European Union (1998).
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Science for Peace: Third World Conference. Milan, 18-19 November 2011

The third World Conference of Science for Peace will be held on Friday 18 and Saturday 19 November 2011, at the Aula Magna of the Bocconi University, Milan. Science for Peace is a project launched ...

Last update 11 Nov 2011
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Conference by Adrien-Claude Zoller on freedom of religion

On 2 November, at 3.30 p.m., the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua hosts a meeting with Adrien-Claude Zoller, founder and president of the NGO Geneva for Human Rights. Zoller' ...

Last update 29 Jun 2012
Logo EUROMED for the initiatives promoted in the framework of the Barcelona Process in the Euromediterranean Region
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The Human Rights Centre at the first Euromediterranean Education Convention. Alexandria (Egypt), 30-31 October 2011

The Anna Lindh Foundation (ALF) and the Swedish Institute have organised on 30 and 31 October 2011 in Alexandria (Egypt) the first edition of the Alexandria Annual Education Convention on the theme ...

Last update 29 Mar 2019
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National civil service: 2011 call for 20.123 volunteers

This year, in the framework of the National civil service programme, 20.123 volunteers will be selected in order to participate in different projects in Italy and abroad. Information on all projects ...

Last update 29 Mar 2019
Woman cutting grass to feed cattle in Lamaku, eastern Nepal
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The worldwide production of agrofuels

The energy crisis and the challenges of climate change have forced states to look for other energy sources. The production and the use of agrofuels are one of the strategy states have been adopting ...

Last update 26 Oct 2011
Elections in East Timor: a voter dips his finger in an ink bottle after voting in the election.
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Elections in Tunisia: Italian civil society has sent an international observation mission

On 23rd October 2011 Tunisia held the Constituent Assembly elections which were the first elections after the removal of the former President Ben Ali. The Constituent Assembly will be composed by ...

Last update 3 Nov 2011
Secretary-General Meets with International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur
From left to right: Dumisa Ntsebeza (South Africa), Therese Striggner Scott (Ghana), Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Antonio Cassese, Chairman of the Commission (Italy), and Mohamme
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The Human rights centre expresses its condolences for the loss of Prof. Antonio Cassese

He was among the most highly regarded and internationally known Italian jurist in the last decades. He matched the doctrine with a sophisticated understanding of international political events. For ...

Last update 3 Nov 2011
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The Judgement of the Permanent People’s Tribunal, May 2010

In May 2010, the Permanent People's Tribunal met in Madrid to hold its session on 'The European Union and Transnational Corporations in Latin America: Policies, Instruments and Actors Complicit in ...

Last update 14 Dec 2012
Artic ice viewed from aboard the Norwegian Coast Guard vessel, "KV Svalbard", during Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's visit to the Polar ice rim to witness firsthand the impact of climate change on icebergs and glaciers.
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Agrofuels and climate change: a false solution

The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change expresses the urgent need to mitigate climate change in order “to protect climate system for present and future ...

Last update 26 Oct 2011
A painting on yellow cloth, created for an exhibit inside the UNESCO Headquarters, in occasion of the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.
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The inhuman working conditions in monocropping plantations as new forms of slavery

Despite the large mechanization in the agrofuels sector, there are still some activities requiring the intensive human labour: the preparation of the soil before sowing, mostly pulling up roots and ...

Last update 26 Oct 2011
Farmers work the rice fields in Palung, Nepal
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Land tenure and agrofuels

Enforced evictions and illegal expropriations deeply influences the life of indigenous peoples upsetting their traditional way of living: the way to organise the collective life, the way to feed, ...

Last update 26 Oct 2011
A Sudanese student drinks and washes her face at a new water fountain in a primary school for girls
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The effects of the production and the use of agrofuels on human rights: the indigenous peoples’ right to natural resources

The indigenous peoples' right to own and possess their territories extends to natural resources. The ILO Convention No. 169 specifies that the term 'land' used in Article 14 of the Convention is ...

Last update 26 Oct 2011
A Kirghiz family at the foot of the Kongur mountains in Xinjiang, China.
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The effects of the production and the use of agrofuels on human rights: the indigenous peoples' right to land and territory

The licences of governments to the companies for the development of agrofuels are easily granted by reason of the presumed advantages that this kind of activity can bring: independence from fossil ...

Last update 26 Oct 2011
A woman resident of the Kibati camp of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) carries a bag of food ration distributed by the World Food Programme in collaboration with the non-governmental organization, CARITAS.
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The effects of the production and the use of agrofuels on human rights: the right to food

When the interests for agrofuels widely prevail on food wants, taking off lands from food crops the right to food is affected and in many cases threatened. Especially in developing countries the ...

Last update 26 Oct 2011