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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”

Dabiq #7, Islam Is the Religion of the Sword, Not Pacifism
© Daesh online magazine
terrorism

Terrorism, Propaganda and Human Rights in the Islamic State

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

A sea rescue by the Sea-Watch team
© Marcus Wiechmann/Sea-Watch.Org
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

10 dicembre 2018 Giornata internazionale dei diritti umani, La bussola dei diritti umani
international days

Human Rights Day, University of Padova, 10 December 2018

Michelle Bachelet, appointed as seventh United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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human rights

United Nations: Michelle Bachelet is the next High Commissioner for Human Rights

Campaign Logo with "50th Anniversary of the Human Rights Covenants"
International Conference

International Conference "Looking beyond the 50th Anniversary of the Covenants. What Interdependence and Indivisibility of Human Rights?", University of Padova, 13-14 December 2016

United Nations General Assembly
human rights

We, Human Rights, Padova, 13 December 2016

Representation of Human Dignity and Peace
Campaign Logo with "50th Anniversary of the Human Rights Covenants"
international human rights law

United Nations: remarks by the Deputy secretary-general on the anniversary of the two Covenants, New York, 19 November 2016

Frame excerpt from the video “Nel segno dei diritti”, created by Class IV D2 of the Institute of Higher Education “L. Da Vinci” of Arzignano (VI), A.s. 2008/2009. Video winner for the 10 year-old Contest, of Regional Law of the Veneto n. 55/1999.
© Regione del Veneto
United Nations

Italy ratifies the UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

Logo of the Office of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR)
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United Nations

United Nations: the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture presents confidential preliminary findings to Italian Government

A group of 50 students and National Civil Service volunteers of the University of Padua carry 28 posters bearing the words: “Human right to peace”, during the Peace March Perugia-Assisi 2014.
international human rights law

The respect for international legality and the renewed centrality of the United Nations: the only alternative to war

UNICEF school: a young girl in front of a blackboard with a piece of chalk in her hand.
© UN Photo
Council of Europe

Council of Europe: Italy ratifies the Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse

Photo on the subject of violence against women in East Timor. Black and white image of the faded silhouette and hand of a woman.
© UN Photo
Italy

Council of Europe: Italy signs the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence