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Syrian women protest showing placards
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Forthcoming launch of the Human Development Report 2013: "The Rise of the South - Human Progress in a Diverse World"

Da sinistra: Alessandro Pascolini, Marco Mascia, Cesare Maria Ragaglini, Silvia Fattore, Antonio Papisca, Stefano Beltrame
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The Human Rights Centre welcomes Ambassador Cesare Maria Ragaglini, Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations in New York

Children running on the playground
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Maria Rita Parsi elected to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

Logo International Commission against Death Penalty
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10 december 2012: Presentation of the International Commission against Death Penalty, University of Padova

Time to Abolish the Death Penalty: the International Human Rights Day in the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua
House of Representatives
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Italian Parliament: the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture (OPCAT) has been ratified

Palazzo Madama facade, Senato della Reppublica
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The Foreign Affairs Commission of the Italian Senate approves the Bill for the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against torture

From left: Gianni Magazzeni, OHCHR; Marco Mascia, Director of the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua; ; Navanethem Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Antonio Papisca, Director of the Italian Yearbook of Human Rights
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The Italian Yearbook of Human Rights presented at the United Nations in Geneva

Session of the Human Rights Council, Geneva 2011.
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Study-trip to Geneva for the students of the University of Padua and of the European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation

Rashida Manjoo, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, 2011
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United Nations: the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women concluded her first visit to Italy

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United Nations: first fact-finding mission of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women in Italy

Wide view of Hall XX, where the Human Rights Council gathers, Palace of Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 2010.
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United Nations: Italy elected as member of the Human Rights Council for the period 2011-2013

American interns Kathleen Kruckenberg (on the left) and Talin Galoosian (on the right)
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U.S. Platforms on International Treaties Legal Instruments (2009)

Wide view of Hall XX, where the Human Rights Council gathers, Palace of Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 2010.
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The study trip to the UN headquarters in Geneva, for University of Padua students of the Master's degree in "Institutions and politics of human rights and of peace", is finally concluded

External view of the Palace of Nations in Geneva. A globe stands in front of the Palace, the work of sculptor Paul Manship, a metal sphere, the inside of which contains figures representing the zodiac weaved with one another.
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Study trip to Geneva of post-graduate students on human rights of the University of Padua (9 - 13 May 2010)

Insignia of Italian Republic
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Public meeting on the Italian Parliament's Prospects of Ratification and Implementation of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture (OPCAT), University of Padova, 26 March 2010