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Italian Yearbook of Human Rights

ISSN 3035-5435
Ethiopian migrants arrive on the shore of Obock, Djibouti
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migration

Italy Responds to UN Concerns on Voluntary Humanitarian Return from Libya

special rapporteur

U.S. Sanctions UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese Over ICC Engagement

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Italy

Council of Europe Anti-Racism Commission (ECRI): Italian Government reacts to criticism of discriminatory stop-and-search practices by police

"Courtroom of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg"
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Council of Europe

Council of Europe: the Secretary General replies to Italy and other eight countries criticizing the European Court of Human Rights’ rulings on migration

Global Summit photo 2
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climate change

Warning Silence: no update on Valentina Corona Case as Italy debates anti-climate protest measures

Advocates disrupt transfer of asylum seekers from Villawood
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migration

UN Human Rights Committee: concerns over the Italy-Albania Agreement in the Concluding Observations on the Third Periodic Report of Albania 2025

Antiwar protest in Aviano
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United Nations

United Nations: UN Experts criticize Italian Government’s Security Decree

Italy: visit of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
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national minorities

The Regional Authorities and Linguistic Minorities of Friuli Venezia Giulia Region meet the Council of Europe monitoring body on National Minorities

Thousands of people with packanges and bags try to leave Libya at the Tunisian border
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migration

EU-Tunisia Agreement: Human Rights Concerns Persist from 2023 to 2025

Picture of the Italian seat on the occasion of a United Nations Human Rights Council
UPR

Human Rights Council: Italy to be assessed on 20 January 2025 for the Fourth Cycle of Universal Periodic Review

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in a meeting
Council of Europe

Follow-up decisions of the Committee of Ministers (CoE) adopted in 2024 on Italy’s issues raised by the CoE bodies

Two fishermen in their boat in Rincao, Cabo Verde. The idea behind the concept of the Blue Economy is to sustainably use the ocean as a tool for lifting people out of poverty, while protecting its valuable ecosystems. The Blue Economy concept seeks to promote economic growth, social inclusion and preservation or improvement of livelihoods while at the same time ensuring environmental sustainability—all issues integral to the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.
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special rapporteur

Italian government replies to the SR Communications of 2023

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human rights

FRA: Italy in Fundamental Rights Report 2024

Panoramic photo of the building headquarters of the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France.
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European Court of Human Rights

Statistical data on cases regarding Italy dealt with by the European Court of Human Rights in 2024

The Justice and Correction Section of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) supports a gardening project in the local jail in Sevare, which allows prisoners to grow their own food and to garnish a small income from the sale of that which they produce. Here, the hands of two prisoners who participate in the project. Their faces are not shown in order to respect their privacy and protect their identity.
© UN Photo/Harandane Dicko
prison conditions

The Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee publishes a report on its visit to four closed migrants’ pre-repatriation centres in Italy