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National Ombudsperson for the Rights of Detainees: Presentation of First Activities Report for First Year of Mandate, Rome, March 21st...

The National Ombudsperson for the Protection of the Rights of Persons Deprived of their Liberty will present his first report...

Last update 5/3/2017

International Seminar "The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better", Human Rights Centre, 22nd February 2017

International Seminar with Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better University...

Last update 22/2/2017
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The Higher Education Institute of European Political Studies (ISESP) of Reggio Calabria publishes the new series of SUDEUROPA, quarterly of...

The second series of SUDEUROPA, the quarterly of European civilization and culture, founded in 1978 and now directed by prof....

Last update 21/2/2017

Italian Council of Ministers: New legislative decree approved on Universal Civil Service

The approval of the decree implementing Article 8 of the law n. 106, 6th June 2016, relating to the discipline...

Last update 21/2/2017
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Photography exhibition “Codename: Caesar. Syrian detainees – victims of torture” at the Human Rights Centre

The inauguration of the exhibition "Codename: Caesar. Syrian detainees - victims of torture" will take place at the University Human...

Last update 20/3/2017
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Human Rights Research and Education Centre: Realizing Rights conference 2017

From June 8th-10th 2017, the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) will be host to a unique national and...

Last update 14/2/2017
Venice Academy of Human Rights 2017 - Economic, social, cultural rights as an answer to rising inequalities programme

Venice Academy of Human Rights 2017: applications now open

Applications for the Venice Academy of Human Rights Summer School, which will be held from the 3rd-12th July 2017 are...

Last update 9/2/2017
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Summer School in International Humanitarian Law, offered by the University of Ottawa, the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, and...

The University of Ottawa, the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, and the Canadian Red Cross will host the 11th...

Last update 9/2/2017
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Council of Europe: GRETA urges Italy to better protect unaccompanied children

The Council of Europe Group of experts against human trafficking (GRETA) has published on 30th January a report on the...

Last update 5/2/2017

EIUC: Training for International Electoral Observers

Admissions to the two three-day modules (20th-22nd March 2017 and 23rd-25th March 2017) of the training seminar for International Electoral...

Last update 2/2/2017
Cartoon of a Human Rights Defender offering an umbrella to an injured person, with an umbrella with the European stars being offered in turn to them

Italian Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee approves resolution on Human Rights Defenders

On 31st January 2017, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies approved a resolution for the protection...

Last update 1/2/2017
UNHCR staff receive survivors at the dock of the Sicilian port of Messina, Sicily

UNHCR lauds Europe’s rescue efforts in Mediterranean Sea

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has praised the rescue of around 1,500 people by the Italian Coast Guard in coordination...

Last update 1/2/2017
Aerial view of the United Nations Headquarters. Two low rectangular buildings and a skyscraper, overlooking the Hudson River in New York.

UN General Assembly: High-level Meeting to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons...

The President of the General Assembly will convene a high-level meeting to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the adoption of...

Last update 31/1/2017
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Council of Europe: Study on the rights of children in biomedicine in preparation for the 20th Anniversary of the Oviedo...

On 16th January 2017, the Committee on Bioethics (DH-BIO), of the Council of Europe, published a study prepared at its...

Last update 30/1/2017

European Court of Human Rights: Italian Authorities' removal of a child born from surrogacy with no biological ties to intended...

In the judgment of January 24th 2017, the Grand Chamber of European Court of Human Rights reversed the decision of...

Last update 30/1/2017