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Children

Judgment of the Court of Cassation No. 16457: child abduction and international human rights standards in Italian criminal law

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Iran

Human rights Council: published report on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran between January 2025 and February 2026

A child holding hands with his grandfather are standing on a car and looking at the horizon. The child waves a Palestinian flag and the grandfather has a keffiyeh on his shoulders
Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The International Court of Justice declared Israel’s presence in occupied Palestinian territories as illegal

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human rights

The European Union deposited the instrument of approval of the “Istanbul Convention”

human rights

Human Rights Watch 2023 Report: A New Model for Global Leadership on Human Rights

human rights

United Nations: Published new guide “Protecting Minority Rights: A Practical Guide to Developing Comprehensive Anti-Discrimination Legislation”

Protests in Belarus 2020
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human rights

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet Comments on Belarus

Michelle Bachelet (on screen), UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, addresses the 30th Special Session of the Human Rights Council on the “Grave Human Rights Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem”, at Palais des Natio
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peace

Human Rights Council Establishes International Commission of Inquiry to Investigate Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel

Manuale sul diritto europeo in materia di asilo, frontiere e immigrazione
Italy

FRA published the Italian asylum and migration handbook

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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United Nations

International Human Rights Day: Tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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human rights

Sur International Journal on Human Rights published a new edition on Human Rights Defenders

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”

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.
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Italy

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

A sea rescue by the Sea-Watch team
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human rights

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
Italy

United Nations Human Rights Experts call Italy for urgent measures to protect migrant workers of the informal settlement of San Ferdinando in Calabria