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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.
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Italy

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

Women human rights defenders in an illustration by Illustration by artist María María Acha-Kutscher
United Nations

United Nations: the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders dedicates his annual report to women human rights defenders

Michel Forst, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights Defenders
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human rights

Human Rights Defenders: the UN Special Rapporteur Michel Forst has published the World Report

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, letter to world leaders entitled "They should have known better"
United Nations

A letter from the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples to world leaders

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
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United Nations

United Nations: the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples published the report on her visit to Mexico

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Italy

OHCHR: Italy-EU search and rescue code could increase Mediterranean deaths

Black and white photo - an adult and child's hands holding a small house made of cardboard
economic, social and cultural rights

Human Rights Centre: Seminar with Prof. Jessica Whyte "A Right to a Standard of Living: Social and Economic Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism" 14th June 2017

A migrant boat arriving on the island of Lampedusa
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United Nations

United Nations: the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants concluded his visit to Italy

Rashida Manjoo, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, 2011
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United Nations

United Nations: the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women concluded her first visit to Italy