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20th anniversary of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders
human rights defenders (HRDs)

Human rights defenders (HRDs): the Special Rapporteur on the situation of HRDs has prepared a concept note on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the UN Declaration on human rights defenders

Farnesina, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome
Italy

International workshop “Protection of Human Rights Defenders: good practices and the role of Italy” (Rome, MFA, 18 June 2018)

Cartoon of a Human Rights Defender offering an umbrella to an injured person, with an umbrella with the European stars being offered in turn to them
© EIDHR
Italy

Council of the Autonomous Province of Trento: motion approved on the protection of human rights defenders

A UN Security Council session. The participants are seated around a circular table, in the center of which is positioned another, rectangular table.
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United Nations

Civil Society Open Letter to Permanent Representatives to the UN: Recommendations on the Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security (WPS)

Logo of Italian network - in difesa di - for the human rights of Human Rights Defenders
Italy

In Difesa Di: Launch of the Human Rights Defenders Network in Italy

United Nations Geneva
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human rights defenders (HRDs)

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Statement released on Human Rights Defenders and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Cartoon of a Human Rights Defender offering an umbrella to an injured person, with an umbrella with the European stars being offered in turn to them
© EIDHR
NGOs / associations

Italian Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee approves resolution on Human Rights Defenders

Poster of the Conference “From the project ‘White Helmets beyond revenges’ to civilian peace corps”, University of Padua, 8 July 2014
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“From the project ‘White Helmets beyond revenges’ to civilian peace corps”, University of Padua, 8 July 2014

Group shot of students, graduates and volunteers in Civil Service of the University of Padua with Shirin Ebadi.
peace

Peace and Human Rights: young people meet Nobel Peace Prize Shirin Ebadi, Giavera del Montello (Treviso), 7-8 June 2014

human rights defenders (HRDs)

The demise of Franziska Jägerstätter, widow of Franz Jägerstätter and non-violent activist

The Italian pacifist Angelo Frammartino with a Palestinian child, 2006
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NGOs / associations

In Monterotondo (Rome) a school has been named after the Italian peace activist Angelo Frammartino

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NGOs / associations

Conference by Adrien-Claude Zoller on freedom of religion, University of Padua, 2 November 2011

Vittorio Arrigoni
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Italy

Grief and Dismay for the barbaric murder of Vittorio Arrigoni

Father Alejandro Solalinde, Human Rights Defender
human rights defenders (HRDs)

Father Solalinde, Mexican defender of migrants’ rights, meets the students of the degree and post-graduate Course on human rights at the Human Rights Centre

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Prof Kevin Boyle, a prominent scholar and human rights activist, died on Christmas day 2010