University Human Rights Centre "Antonio Papisca"

The Human Rights Center is the University of Padova's structure for research, training and dissemination on issues of human rights, democracy and peace. The Human Rights Center was established in 1982, on the initiative of the Head of the Department of Political Science at the time, Professor Antonio Papisca. The Center is the first structural response by the Italian University System to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to the recommendations from important international institutions such as the United Nations, the UNESCO and the Council of Europe. 

The Center's calling from the beginning has been to build the interdisciplinary “knowledge” of human rights (of persons and peoples); to promote the contents, theoretical and applied, of this knowledge; and to educate so that the knowledge of human rights operates fruitfully in social and political life.