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Italian Yearbook of Human Rights

ISSN 3035-5435
The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) destroyed weapons and ammunition recovered from civilians seeking refuge in the UNMISS base in Malakal, Upper Nile State. Some 134 weapons and 10,500 rounds of ammunition were disposed of in the exercise. A majority (108) of the confiscated weapons were AK 47/56 rifles. A view from the exercise of destruction of weapons.
© UN Photo/JC McIlwaine
Military Expenditure

Italy’s Quiet Role in Arming Israel Amid Conflict

freedom of the press

European Court of Human Rights: complaint filed against Italy on freedom of the press and wiretapping

© Greenpeace Italia
environment

With an historic Ruling, the Vicenza Court Recognised the Link Between PFAS and Work-Related Death

Global Summit photo 2
© Li-An Lim su Unsplash
climate change

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

Logo of the Civil Peace Corps
© FOCSIV
Civil Peace Corps

Civil Peace Corps financed: Italian Parliament converted into law Decree-Law of 14 March 2025

italian referendum
© cc Niccolò Caranti
democracy

Abrogative Referendums: Voting on Labour and Citizenship Set for June 8 and 9

Human Rights Council

Italy Announces Candidacy for UN Human Rights Council 2026–2028

Advocates disrupt transfer of asylum seekers from Villawood
© Kate Ausburn
migration

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

Amnesty International Report 2025
report

Was Italy struggling to protect the most vulnerable in 2024? - Amnesty International’s 2025 Report on the State of the World’s Human Rights

Some European Court of Human Rights judges in session
© ©Council of Europe
European Court of Human Rights

ECtHR rules against Italy in Morabito v. Italy case: Violation of human rights found

Antiwar protest in Aviano
© cc
United Nations

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

European court of Human Rights Solemn hearing, 31 January 2025
© Council of Europe
European Court of Human Rights

Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights regarding Italy in February and March 2025

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

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

Prison cell, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
© UN Photo
prison conditions

Suicides and Deaths in Prison: National Report on the Rights of Persons Deprived of their Personal Liberty 2025

Thousands of protesters armed with placards filled most of Whitehall outside Downing Street.
© Alisdare Hickson CC
freedom of assembly and association

The new CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist highlights serious concerns regarding the exercise of civic freedoms in Italy