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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

Portrait of Michele Nicoletti, newly elected President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
© Council of Europe
Italy

Council of Europe: Michele Nicoletti of Italy elected President of the Parliamentary Assembly

Senzatomica e Rete Italiana per il Disarmo: campagna per convincere il Governo a firmare e ratificare: “Italia Ripensaci!”
United Nations

Senzatomica and the Italian disarmament network: "Italy, rethink!" Campaign launched to convince the government to sign and ratify the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Headquarters of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg (France).
© Consiglio d'Europa
Council of Europe

Council of Europe: Commissioner for Human Rights urges Italian Parliament to adopt a law on torture which is fully compliant with international human rights standards

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

Man during a demonstration against corruption
Italy

Council of Europe: GRECO calls for reinforced measures to prevent conflicts of interest in Italian Parliament and the judiciary

House of Representatives
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Italy

Italy: the Parliament approves a law criminalising negationism

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United Nations

Italy ratifies the Third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Migrants arriving on the Island of Lampedusa by boat
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human rights

Chambers of Deputies: a Commission of Inquiry on Centres for migrants has been established

Some European Court of Human Rights judges in session
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human rights

Italy: the Government presents the 2012 report on the execution of judgements of the European Court of Human Rights to Parliament

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
women

Italy: The Istanbul Convention on violence against women has become law

Palazzo Madama facade, Senato della Reppublica
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human rights

The Senate of the Republic establishes the Special Commission for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights

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
women

Italy: the Chamber of Deputies approves the Bill on the ratification of the Istanbul Convention on violence against women

House of Representatives
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United Nations

Italian Parliament: the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture (OPCAT) has been ratified

Libra and gavel as a simbol of justice
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Italy

The Justice Commission of the Italian Senate approves the Bill for the introduction of the crime of torture in the Italian criminal code