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A migrant boat arriving on the island of Lampedusa
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United Nations: the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants concluded his visit to Italy

Amnesty International UK held a mass demostration in Downing Street, calling on the UK government not to turn a blind eye to torture
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United Nations: UN Subcommittee on prevention of torture announced country visits for 2015 in Guatemala, Italy, Nauru and the Philippines

The official logo for UN constituted by the polar stereographic projection of the globe surrounded by two laurel branches
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Italy has ratified the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

The United Nations Human Right Council in session.
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UN Human Rights Council: the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review of Italy to be held in Geneva

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Global Week of Action for a World Parliament 17-26 October 2014

Wide view of the 23rd session of the Human Rights Council.
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United Nations: 27th session of the Human Rights Council

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United Nations: International Day of Peace 2014. Saturday 20th September 2014, a meeting at the University of Padova was held, attended by mayors, in support of the human right to peace, University of Padova, 20 September 2014,

The UN are discussing the human rights to peace. The mobilisation of local authorities began in Veneto.
Professor Mauro Politi
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United Nations: The Italian jurist Mauro Politi has been elected to the UN Human Rights Committee

Prison cell, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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United Nations: the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention published the conclusions of the visit in Italy

United Nations Office, Geneva. View of the Palais des Nations, with the flags of the Member States of the United Nations.
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A delegation of representatives of Italian local authorities at the United Nations Human Rights Council for the international recognition of the human right to peace. Geneva, 23 june 2014

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UNDP presented the 2013 Millennium Development Goals Report

Flavia Pansieri, United Nations' Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, with the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon
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United Nations: Flavia Pansieri appointed as the new Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights

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