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Building peace and reconciliation through the creation of a Ministry of Peace
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Building peace and reconciliation through the creation of a Ministry of Peace, Geneva, 20 September 2019

A sea rescue by the Sea-Watch team
© Marcus Wiechmann/Sea-Watch.Org
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United Nations independent experts sent a letter to the Italian Government condemning a draft law by Italian Interior Minister to fine migrant rescuers

Abandoned migrant boats lie lifeless opposite the port of Lampedusa, Italy, an island which experiences frequent migration from nearby North Africa. Boats like this one are dumped on wasteland once they are recovered by the Italian Coast Guard.
© UN Photo/UNHCR/Phil Behan
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United Nations Human Rights Experts call Italy for urgent measures to protect migrant workers of the informal settlement of San Ferdinando in Calabria

A session of the Model UPR 2018, at the University of Padova, Dec. 6-7, 2018
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At the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padova the first Model UN on the UPR

Logo of the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights, 26-28 November 2018
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United Nations: 7th Forum on Business and Human Rights, Geneva, 26-28 November 2018

Business and Human Rights
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United Nations: the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights has released the first draft of the legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises

Wide view of the 23rd session of the Human Rights Council.
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Human Rights Council: intersessional workshop on the right to peace

A little girl with a soft teddy Bear in her hand
Council of Europe

Council of Europe: 2nd report on the protection of children against sexual abuse

Voting at the General Assembly. In the upper left, the emblem of the United Nations.
© UN Photo
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Making history in the United Nations: the General Assembly adopts a Declaration on the Right to peace promoted by civil society organizations

United Nations General Assembly
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The Declaration on the right to peace is in the pipeline to the General Assembly of the United Nations

Logo of the Foundation Paz sin fronteras
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Peace has your signature: Foundation Peace Without Borders launched a petition for the right to peace

Group shot of students and National Civil Service volunteers of the University of Padua in Assisi, 18 October 2014.
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A new phase of the Italian Campaign for the recognition of the Human Right to Peace begins in view of the upcoming fourth session of the UN Intergovernamental Working Group

Students and National Civil Service volunteers of the University of Padua at Giardini del Frontone in Perugia, at the opening of the March.
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The Volunteering Festival of Lucca adopts the Appeal ‘Every man has the right to live in peace! Every man should have the opportunity to commit to peace!’

Presentation of the new vault in the conference room of the Human Rights Council, in the presence of the Spanish artist who painted it, Miquel Barcelo.
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United Nations

United Nations: Italy concluded the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

United Nations

Human Rights Council: Informal consultations of the Working Group on a draft United Nations Declaration on the Right to Peace, Geneva, 30 January 2015