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refugees

The students of the Refugee Rights Lab of the University of Padova present their submission to the Human Rights Committee in Geneva

Human rights approach needed for internally displaced people’s housing, land and property
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housing

Forced Evictions and the Right to Housing: CESCR’s views on Saydawi and Farah v. Italy

Discrimination and violence on women
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women

United Nations: The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women published its Concluding Observations on Italy on 19 February 2024

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Ukraine

Children’s Rights in Ukraine

Human Hands
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discrimination

CERD: Concluding Observations on the Twenty-First Periodic Report of Italy in 2023

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economic, social and cultural rights

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: concluding observations on Italy's Sixth Periodic Report

Human Rights Committee in session
discrimination

Human Rights Committee Views in 2022: Italian Citizenship Denials Provoke Debate Over Discrimination and National Security

A person in a wheelchair against the light
people with disability

Italy’s Struggle with Disability Rights: The Bellini Case and CRPD Compliance

The Children's Rights Moot Court Competition 2021
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Children

Children's Rights Moot Court Competition 2021 -- University of Padova team among the Quarter finalists

Atomic bomb
United Nations

United Nations: the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons set to enter into force in January

The flags of the 193 UN Member States fly at the Palais des Nations, seat of the UN Office at Geneva, after completion of the renovation of the entrance path to the Palais, known as “Allée des drapeaux” (meaning "Flags Way").
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human rights

United Nations: budget shortfalls seriously undermine the work of the Human Rights Treaty bodies

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Italy

United Nations: visit in Italy of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, 16-22 September 2015

Session of the Human Rights Council, Geneva 2011.
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human rights

Study-trip to Geneva for the students of the University of Padua and of the European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation

Students during a meeting at Wilson Palace. Geneva, Switzerland
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Italy

Students' Simulation on how Italy enforces the international treaties on human rights

Four workers laying down 4 of the 12 stars of a large representation of the flag of the Council of Europe during a celebration.
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Council of Europe

Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua: First meeting of the Contact Persons of the European "National Preventive Mechanisms" Project