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Flavia Pansieri, United Nations' Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, with the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon
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human rights

United Nations: Flavia Pansieri appointed as the new Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights

European Committee of social rights, group picture of the Committee's members, 2011
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Italy

European Social Charter: The Association for the Protection of All Children submitted collective complaint against Italy

Syrian women protest showing placards
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United Nations

Forthcoming launch of the Human Development Report 2013: "The Rise of the South - Human Progress in a Diverse World"

Cut the wings of arms, Italian campaign for disarmament, 2011
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peace

Italian Network for Disarmament and Roundtable of Civil Interventions for Peace: proposed Agenda for Peace and Disarmament construction in the next legislature

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, panoramic view
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Italy

Council of Europe: the PACE entrusts the Venice Commission to draft a report on media freedom in Italy

Da sinistra: Alessandro Pascolini, Marco Mascia, Cesare Maria Ragaglini, Silvia Fattore, Antonio Papisca, Stefano Beltrame
United Nations

The Human Rights Centre welcomes Ambassador Cesare Maria Ragaglini, Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations in New York

Logo of the EIUC, with orange figures on the left and "EIUC" written in blue on the left.
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human rights

EIUC is looking for two E.MA Fellows 2013/2014

Sculpture entitled "Non-Violenza" by Karl Fredrik Reutersward, situated outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
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Italy

15 December 2012: 40th anniversary of the law on conscientious objection to military service in Italy

Children running on the playground
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human rights

Maria Rita Parsi elected to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

The Under-Secretary-General of Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel Patricia O'Brien speaking at the ceremony of the Treaty Event 2009 that ratified the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
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economic, social and cultural rights

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights welcomes the upcoming entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the UN Covenant on economic, social and cultural rights

An anti-trafficking poster at the Helsinki Fair Centre on 30 November 2008, where preparations are under way for the 16th OSCE Ministerial Council on 4-5 December.
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trafficking in human beings

Italy: OSCE Special Representative held a seminar on preventing Human Trafficking in Mediterranean Region

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human rights

Amnesty International: “Remember that you must answer. Italy and Human Rights” Campaign

New residents of the Roghani Refugee Camp in Chaman, a Pakistani border town. Children and young people make up a large percentage of the population at Roghani Refugee Camp.
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Italy

Human Rights Watch: report on rejections of unaccompanied minors and asylum seekers from Italy to Greece

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

European Court of Human Rights: Italy condemned in the Lombardo and Cirillo cases

Voting at the Human Rights Council on the topic of religious slander.
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Human Rights Council

UN Human Rights Council: rescheduled the Universal Periodic Review of Israel