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FRA: State of criminal justice in the EU - Presumption of innocence and related rights

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights: state of criminal justice in the EU - Presumption of innocence and related...

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) launched a new report: Presumption of innocence and related rights. Professional perspectives. It is...

Last update 10/6/2022
Overcrowded prisons

Prison overcrowding: the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture calls for setting a limit to the number...

The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT)  called upon the European states to address the problem of...

Last update 9/6/2022
2022 World Forum for democracy by the Council of Europe

Council of Europe: call for initiatives for the 10th World Forum for Democracy (November 2022)

Under the title “Democracy: A new hope?” The 10th World Forum for Democracy organised by the Council of Europe, launched a...

Last update 8/6/2022
Protecting rights of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls: Council of Europe recommendation adopted

The Council of Europe has adopted recommendations to protect the rights of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls...

The Committee of Ministers, meeting in Turin, has adopted a new recommendation to protect the rights of migrant, refugee and...

Last update 8/6/2022
A woman harvests rice and maize on a community farm in Viet Nam.

World Environment Day 2022: Only One Earth

Led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and held annually on 5 June, World Environment Day is the largest...

Last update 7/6/2022
FIVE WAYS TO TALK TO CHILDREN ABOUT SCHOOL SHOOTINGS

Save the Children: 5 ways to talk to children about school shootings

Recently, nineteen children and two adults were killed in a mass school shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas....

Last update 7/6/2022
Combating hate speech Poster

Council of Europe: new guidelines to combat hate speech

The Council of Europe has issued a set of guidelines to its 46 member states aimed at preventing and combating...

Last update 6/6/2022

University of Padova: conference on "Libertas. Spaces and practices of academic freedom" (22-24 June 2022), registration deadline 10 June...

To celebrate eight centuries of commitment to the protection and promotion of academic freedom and to revive such commitment the...

Last update 6/6/2022

ILO/UNICEF: social protection contributes to reducing child labour

The newest report “The role of social protection in the elimination of child labour”, issued jointly by the International Labour...

Last update 6/6/2022
Abortion rights supporters and anti-abortion demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 1, 2021

USA: UN experts denounce Supreme Court decision to strike down Roe vs Wade, urge action to mitigate consequences

UN human rights experts today denounced the decision by the US Supreme Court to strike down Roe v. Wade, a...

Last update 5/7/2022
Changing the position of women in the field of security in the Central African Republic

Breaking prison barriers in the Central African Republic: changing the position of women in the field of security

According to Téné Maimouna Zoungrana, an officer from Burkina Faso serving with the UN Mission in the Central African Republic...

Last update 5/6/2022
IOM staff and local authorities discuss the needs of internally displaced persons in front of a damaged school in Zhytomyr centre.

International Organization for Migration (IOM): Needs Growing for Over 8 Million Internally Displaced in Ukraine

The official number of people internally displaced by the war in Ukraine has surpassed the 8 million mark, according to...

Last update 4/6/2022
Hands offering bread

UNDP report 2022: The war in Ukraine and the new crisis looming in Africa

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has issued a new report, The Impact of the War in Ukraine on Sustainable...

Last update 3/6/2022

GRETA: new guidance on addressing the risks of human trafficking

Council of Europe anti-trafficking body GRETA has issued a Guidance Note on addressing the risks of trafficking in human beings...

Last update 2/6/2022
The Council of Europe has adopted recommendation to protect the rights of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls.

Council of Europe: the Committee of Ministers has adopted recommendation to protect the rights of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women...

The Committee of Ministers, meeting in Turin, has adopted a new recommendation to protect the rights of migrant, refugee and...

Last update 1/6/2022