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Cover Peace Human Rights Governance Journal PHRG - 2017
research

PHRG - Peace Human Rights Governance: the December 2024 issue is out

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
arms trade

OHCHR published a report on the destructive impact of arms transfers for human rights

PhD Defence "Human Rights, Society and Multi-level Governance", 20 March 2025
university

PhD Programme "Human Rights, Society, and Multi-level Governance": Doctoral candidates of the 37th cycle succesfully defend their thesis, 20 March 2025

Freedom Songs - Canti di libertà
human rights

Freedom Songs - Palestine: Workshop and final event, University of Padova, 21-22 March 2025

Protest rally against Lukashenko, 16 August. Minsk, Belarus
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Belarus

Belarus: UN Human Rights Council’s report finds widespread and systematic violations

Global Campus of Human Rights: Venice School for Human Rights Defenders 2025
human rights defenders (HRDs)

Global Campus of Human Rights: registration open for the Venice School for Human Rights Defenders, 15-21 June 2025

© UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran
freedom of expression

Freedom House: Freedom in the World 2025 Report has been released, The Uphill Battle to Safeguard Rights

Report cover with the english title and different colors that surround it.
LGBTQI+

ILGA-Europe: available the 2025 report on the human rights situation of LBGTI people in Europe and Central Asia

© UN Photo/Jean Marc Ferré
Human Rights Council

Human Rights Council: the 58th regular session has started

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Volker Türk presents the Human Rights Appeal 2025

EU Flags in front of the European Commission building in Brussels.
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European Union

Council of the European Union: conclusions on EU priorities for UN human rights forums in 2025 adopted

A wide view of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the Parliament at its 60th anniversary commemoration of the European Convention on Human Rights.
© UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
European Parliament

European Parliament: adopted resolutions on human rights violations in Turkey, Nicaragua and Nigeria

The Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI) 2025 Annual Conference
NHRI

Call for Papers: 2025 AHRI Conference “Protecting Human Rights from Global Organized Crime”

human rights

Human Rights Watch: published the World Report 2025 on human rights situation globally

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enforced disappearances

CEDI: the first World Congress on Enforced Disappearances lays the foundation for a unified response towards the eradication of this human rights violation