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Refugees ship
© UN Photo/UNHCR/Liba Taylor
United Nations

UN Human Rights Committee: in 2013 Italy failed to rescue more than 200 migrants

Tokyo seminar January 2021
human rights

Online seminar: Participation of the Civil Society in UN Human Rights Mechanisms

human rights

FRA: new report on Business and Human Rights - access to remedy

Coal miners in Criseluna, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
© Sebastiao Barbosa / United Nations Photo
NGOs / associations

Civil society against the mining industry in times of COVID-19

Rapporto CIVICUS Monitor 2019
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COVID-19

CIVICUS: The Civic Space is severely under threat

Madhesh human chain
© Pramodjayswal
Nepal

The Constitution of Nepal: Controversies regarding Citizenship Rights and Political Representation in the Terai

Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
torture

Preventive Mechanisms in the Struggle against Torture: monitoring Places of Deprivation of Liberty to prevent Human Rights Violations

Press release in support of women's right to a positive work environment and for government to take workplace sexual harassment cases more seriously
women

Strong-Women Leadership in Africa: How women parliamentarians are changing the policy making in Uganda

Man during Beirut protests with a flag from Lebanon
human rights defenders (HRDs)

In Lebanon, People are taking back what belongs to them: Unity, Rights, public Spaces

The flags of the 193 UN Member States fly at the Palais des Nations, seat of the UN Office at Geneva, after completion of the renovation of the entrance path to the Palais, known as “Allée des drapeaux” (meaning "Flags Way").
© UN Photo
human rights

United Nations: budget shortfalls seriously undermine the work of the Human Rights Treaty bodies

Cover of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights' (ODIHR) “Guidelines on Promoting the Political Participation of Persons with Disabilities”
© ODIHR
human rights

ODIHR: Guidelines on Promoting the Political Participation of Persons with Disabilities have been published

Campaign Logo with "50th Anniversary of the Human Rights Covenants"
international human rights law

United Nations: remarks by the Deputy secretary-general on the anniversary of the two Covenants, New York, 19 November 2016

Panoramic photo of the building headquarters of the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France.
© Consiglio d'Europa
Italy

European Court of Human Rights: disenfranchisement of convicted prisoners provided for under Italian law does not violate the ECHR