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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Iran's Literacy Movement Organization (LMO) are making efforts to integrate population and reproductive health messages at all levels of literacy classes in the selected provinces of Bushehr, Sistan and Baluchestan, Golestan and Kordestan and the semi-urban area of Islam Shahr, south of the capital, Tehran. The messages that are incorporated into the literacy curricula are on issues such as reproductive health, women's empowerment, and reproductive rights of women, gender equality, and male involvement in family life, education of the girl child and those related to adolescents. Some women bring their children to class as they haven't anyone to look after them. The student's ages range from nine to forty-five. Students at Navid Danesh girl's high school.
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Iran

Iran: UN experts identify human rights violation in the provisions of the new Law on Protecting the Family through the Promotion of the Culture of Chastity and Hijab

General Course “Pace e trasformazione nonviolenta dei conflitti”
university

General Course "Peace and Nonviolent Conflict Transformation", University of Padova, March-May 2025

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international days

International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, 27 January 2025

torture

Regeni Case: the fight for truth and justice continues

Un Secretary General Report 2024, Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
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migration

United Nations: Secretary-General's Report 2024 on Global Compact for Migration published

Hands tied with a chain. Victim of trafficking.
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trafficking in human beings

UNODC Global Human Trafficking Report 2024: an increase of 25% of victims

Counter-terrorism Technology
technology

UN General Assembly adopts the Cybercrime Convention

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UPR

Human Rights Council: Italy to be assessed on 20 January 2025 for the Fourth Cycle of Universal Periodic Review

Journalist documenting an explosion at the Independence square, Kyiv, 2014
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freedom of the press

UNESCO: at least 68 journalist killings in 2024

civil service

Universal Civil Service at the Human Rights Center: call for applications open for the project "Youth Agenda 2030 make yourself seen, make yourself heard", deadline February 27, 2025

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privacy

The Italian Data Protection Authority: functions and composition in 2025

Panoramic photo of the building headquarters of the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France.
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European Court of Human Rights

Article 2 and 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights: right to life and prohibition of torture in 2024 ECtHR case law - Part I

Two fishermen in their boat in Rincao, Cabo Verde. The idea behind the concept of the Blue Economy is to sustainably use the ocean as a tool for lifting people out of poverty, while protecting its valuable ecosystems. The Blue Economy concept seeks to promote economic growth, social inclusion and preservation or improvement of livelihoods while at the same time ensuring environmental sustainability—all issues integral to the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.
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special rapporteur

Italian government replies to the SR Communications of 2023

prison conditions

Composition of the National Guarantor of the rights of persons deprived of personal liberty 2024

A female rider makes a home delivery
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business and human rights

The Privacy Supervisor sanctions Foodinho for personal data breaches