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United Nations

Human Rights Council: building better policies will break the cycles of poverty and inequality

human rights

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

Ban Ki-Moon in the Conference Room of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. In the photo, Ban Ki-Moon talks at the podium to the left of the council table, while his image is projected onto the two large screens behind him.
© UN Photo
human rights

United Nations: Human Rights Council opens forty-fifth regular session

education

Presentation of the Guidelines on International Protection and Violence against Women, 24 September 2020

Guidelines for the emergence, identification, evaluation and care of women who have survived and/or been involved in situations of gender-based violence in international protection
Human Rights Council - UN
human rights protection

Human Rights Council: The Ambassador Cornado’s intervention on COVID-19 impact in Italy

30° anniversario della Convenzione internazionale sui diritti dell’infanzia e dell’adolescenza, 6 settembre 2019, Università di Padova
© UNICEFLACRO/2018/Miguel Rep
human rights

1989-2019: 30th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
© Otávio Roth
torture

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

© UNESCO
Children

The Transformative Potential of Early Childhood Development (ECD): a Focus on the Italian Situation

A fire burns in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil
human rights

Bachelet to the Human Rights Council on climate emergency: “The world has never seen a threat to human rights of this scope”

Scholars at Risk Network
education

University of Trento - Call for the selections for the awarding of no. 2 research fellowships within the "Temporary Protection Project SAR-UniTrento"

Items are left behind at the port of Lampedusa from a boat of Tunisian migrants who were lost at sea for over four days. The island of Lampedusa, Italy, has long been a migratory hub due to its proximity to North Africa.
© UN Photo/UNHCR/Phil Behan
Italy

The UN Refugee Agency expresses concern about the conversion into law of the security decree by the Italian Parliament

African woman in the countryside with goats.
© Kenya © IOM 2011/Brandan Bannon
climate change

Towards a climate migration governance: the new challenge of the 21st century

Cover of the Coalition for Human Rights in Development's report called “Uncalculated Risks. Threats and attacks against human rights defenders and the role of development financiers”
human rights

Coalition for Human Rights in Development: the report “Uncalculated Risks. Threats and attacks against human rights defenders and the role of development financiers” has been published

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

Farmers work in a ""fruit seeds"" project in the Altai-Sayan Eco-Region of Khovd Province, Mongolia. Established with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the project offers converted land for the production of fruit tree seeds, helping to generate additional income for Mongolian farmers and prevent deforestation in the region.
© UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
human rights

United Nations: the General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other people working in rural areas