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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

Image of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights
human rights

Council of Europe: the Commissioner for Human Rights addressed a letter to Italy calling to ensure the human rights of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants

Transnational Institute, cover of the report "The shrinking space for solidarity with migrants and refugees:How the European Union and Member States target and criminalize defenders of the rights of people on the move"
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Italy

Transnational Institute: published a report on the criminalization of solidarity

A group of sudanese refugees at Iridimi Camp in Chad, 2004
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Italy

Council of Europe: the first activity report of the Special Representative on Migration and Refugees has been published

UNHCR staff receive survivors at the dock of the Sicilian port of Messina, Sicily
© UNHCR/Marco Rotunno
migration

UNHCR lauds Europe’s rescue efforts in Mediterranean Sea

Filippo Grandi
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United Nations

United Nations: Filippo Grandi of Italy is the new High Commissioner for Refugees

Study trip to Geneva of post-graduate students on human rights of the University of Padua (19-23 May 2013)
© Centro diritti umani - Università di Padova
humanitarian law

Forced Migration (A.Y. 2014/2015)

Theoretical and practical training course-refugees and immigrants: characteristics of the phenomenon and human rights
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

A family of refugees walking and carrying all their belongings in just few bags
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international days

Presentation of the book: “L’ultimo lenzuolo bianco. L’inferno e il cuore dell’Afghanistan”, Human Rights Centre, 20 June 2014

Working Groups of the students of the Bachelor degree course in “Political Science, International Relations and Human Rights” - Course of International Relations, prof. Marco Mascia, Human Rights Centre, 2013.
human rights

Summer school on Civil protection and humanitarian action in the European Union, Greece, 29 August - 10 September 2013

Olympia (Greece), 29 August - 10 September 2013
Study trip to Geneva of post-graduate students on human rights of the University of Padua (1-5 May 2011)
© Centro diritti umani - Università di Padova
human rights

Summer School on Civil protection and humanitarian action in the European Union, Crete, 27 May – 9 June 2012

Crete, 27 May – 9 June 2012
Thousands of people with packanges and bags try to leave Libya at the Tunisian border
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human rights

The European Court of Human Rights condemns Italy for its push-back policy to Libya in 2009

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university

Protecting the victims of grave exploitation and trafficking dealing with new vulnerabilities. What policies to improve the existing operation systems?, Padua, 3 November 2011

On a beach near Gaza refugees are unloading bags of flour that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) shipped to Gaza, May 1957.
© UN Photo/UNRWA
UNRWA

Israeli Parliament passes laws limiting UNRWA’s operations, sparking global concerns for Palestinian refugees