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"Make Ecocide An International Crime Now" sign on the tarmac at a rally against climate change
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environment

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk: Ecocide as international crime

delegates arriving to attend the General Assembly
© UN Photo/Loey Felipe
United Nations

United Nations: Resolution 79/L.77 adopted by the General Assembly on lethal autonomous weapons systems

© UN Photo/Loey Felipe
War/Conflict

In Case of Crisis or War: the brochure made by the Swedish Government to prepare for war scenarios

Italy

Council of Europe: Commissioner for Human Rights asks the Italian Senate to refrain from adopting the security bill which runs against human rights

International Criminal Court (ICC), in The Hague, Netherlands.
© UN Photo/Rick Bajornas
International Criminal Court

ICC: Arrest warrant demanded for Myanmar Commander-in-Chief after Rohingya crimes

Geir Pedersen, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, briefs the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East (Syria).
© UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
Syria

Syria: United Nations’s response to the fall of the regime of Bashar Al-Assad

The Justice and Correction Section of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) supports a gardening project in the local jail in Sevare, which allows prisoners to grow their own food and to garnish a small income from the sale of that which they produce. Here, the hands of two prisoners who participate in the project. Their faces are not shown in order to respect their privacy and protect their identity.
© UN Photo/Harandane Dicko
prison conditions

The Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee publishes a report on its visit to four closed migrants’ pre-repatriation centres in Italy

Students of the European Master "Human Rights and Democratisation"
university

Call for applications for the European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation (EMA) 2025/2026 is now open

Logo Convegno "Dal progetto ‘Caschi bianchi oltre le vendette’ ai Corpi civili di pace”, Aula Magna “Galileo Galilei” dell’Università di Padova, martedì 8 luglio 2014
Civil Peace Corps

Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII: Call for Civil Peace Corps Published

Hands surrounding people from different generations. Everything is surrounded by the European flag stars.
© Hurca! © adobestock.com, 2023
human rights defenders (HRDs)

Invitation to webinar: draft EU Directive on HRD Mobility 17.12.2024

Women care work
© UN Photo/Kay Muldoon
work

The hidden workforce: Unpaid care work keeps 708 million women out of the labor

A Palestinian searches through rubble of his destroyed home hit by Israeli strikes in Towers Al-andaa - the northern Gaza Strip.
© UN Photo/Shareef Sarhan
Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Human Rights Watch: new report finds war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel’s forced displacement practices of Palestinians in Gaza

International Human Rights Day 2024
© UN Photo
human rights

International Day of Human Rights: Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now, 10 December 2024

Picture of a Wind Turbine taken while on an official visit to Nicaragua, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the Parque Eólico Camilo Ortega Saavedra wind farm in the Department of Rivas in 2014.
© UN Photo/Mark Garten
climate change

COP29: The UN Climate Conference ends with an agreement of a $1.3 trillion Climate Financing Goal by 2035

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people with disability

COP 29: disability inclusion trailing behind