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Essex Human Rights Online Summer School
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Essex Human Rights Online Summer School

un News: Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, was among the human rights experts who issued the statement
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United Nations: Rights experts call for probe into alleged violations against Palestinian women and girls

1522 a red bench to remember all the women victims of violence. No to violence against women
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The "Red Benches" Initiative Launched in Italian Embassies on International Women’s Day 2024

UN News: Women in Afghanistan say they fear arrest, according to a new report by IOM, UN Women and UNAMA.
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United Nations: Drastic erosion of women’s rights in Afghanistan continues

UN News: A mother-of-nine, who is suffering from malnutrition herself, cooks a meal for her children in an IDP camp in Aden, Yemen.
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Yemen: Recent progress overshadowed by fallout from attacks on Gaza, UN envoy reports

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Report CIVICUS Monitor: Rights Reversed A Downward shift in civic space (2019-2023)

UNHCR distributes relief items to returnees at a transit centre in Renk, South Sudan.
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UNHCR: 2023 report Emergency Preparedness and Response

People watch a building on fire following a missile attack in Ukraine.
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United Nations: escalating toll as third year of war in Ukraine looms

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Global Campus of Human Rights: MOOC on Children's Right to Education in Armed Conflict

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European Union

UN Human Rights Chief urges EU leaders to approve key business and human rights legislation

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Council of Europe: Call for nominations for the Vigdís Prize for Women’s Empowerment

UN Secretary-General António Guterres briefs the General Assembly on the work of the Organization and his priorities for 2024
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“Peace is the UN's raison d’être”: Guterres’ call for action and his priorities for 2024

Alice Nderitu, UN Special Adviser on Genocide, briefs reporters ahead of International Day of Countering Hate Speech (18 June)
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The UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide’s statement on the war in the Middle East

Garment workers protest to demand an increase in minimum wages in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 31 October 2023. Photo by Kazi Salahuddin Razu/NurPhoto via Getty Images.
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OXFAM report 2024: Inequality Inc.

An activist holds anti-death penalty signs outside the US Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.
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United Nations: Volker Türk voices regret over first ever execution by nitrogen suffocation