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Venice's famous Doge's Palace and Piazza San Marco.  The city is one of Italy's over 40 UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

EIUC: The International Community: Common Space through Human Rights. Lido (Venice), 13 July 2011

The European Inter-Univeristy Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) has organised on Wednesday 13 July 2011 at 5 p.m....

Last update 5/7/2011
House of Representatives

Italian Senate: the Commission for Constitutional Affairs approves the bill establishing a National Commission for Human Rights

On 28th June 2011 the Commission for Constitutional Affairs of the Italian Senate approved unanimously the bill establishing the National...

Last update 4/7/2011
View of Palazzo Montecitorio

The Italian Parliament adopts a law establishing the national Ombudsman for childhood and adolescence.

On 22 June 2011, after a long parliamentary procedure and by unanimous vote of the Senate was established in Italy...

Last update 1/7/2011
The United Nations Human Right Council in session.

Special Commission of the Senate: hearing on the election of Italy to UN Human Rights Council

On Wednesday 15th June 2011, at 2 p.m., the special Commission on the protection and promotion of human rights of...

Last update 20/6/2011
View of the Giudecca island from Saint Mark Square, Venice

Council of Europe: new Office on intercultural dialogue to open in Venice

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE), represented by the 47 Member States' Ministers of Foreign Affairs,...

Last update 6/6/2011
A close-up of Mercedes Bresso, elected new President of the EU Committee of the Regions

The Committee of the Regions released the official records of the Ateliers 2010

The EU Committee of the Regions released the official records of the “Ateliers” which took place in Brussels in 2010...

Last update 3/6/2011
Logo of the initiative "Run for Children", 2011

Run for Children: 24 hours nonstop relay in favour of the paediatric research and to enter the Guinness Book of...

Run for Children will start from Prato della Valle (Padua) on 17th June. It is a new challenge that Padua...

Last update 25/5/2011
Wide view of Hall XX, where the Human Rights Council gathers, Palace of Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 2010.

United Nations: Italy elected as member of the Human Rights Council for the period 2011-2013

On 20th May 2011 the General Assembly elected Italy, together with other 14 countries, as member of the UN Human...

Last update 25/5/2011
Student body and staff participate in the inauguration ceremony for the 2002-2003 academic year of the European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratization, venice, 2002

European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA) - new deadline for applications: 20 June 2011

The European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC), the interdisciplinary academic body formed by 41 European Union universities,...

Last update 25/5/2011
Political map of the Euromediterranean region which shows the 42 partners of the Union for the Mediterranean and Lybia (the only observer), 2010

University of Catania: Conference on Democratic Change in the Mediterranean

Between 19 and 21 May 2011 a Conference entitled Winds of Democratic Change in the Mediterranean? Actors, Processes and possible...

Last update 11/5/2011
UNESCO is written between two elements: a pitched roof above and a flight of steps below, both typical of a Greek temple, with each letter representing a column of the temple.

University of Bergamo: Meeting of UNESCO Chairs on the theme "Developing together a new partnership for strengthened cooperation"

The holders of 41 UNESCO Chairs in human rights, democracy, bioethics, peace and tolerance, active in all continents, have met...

Last update 9/5/2011
The logo representing the network of fairtrade associations of the Region of Veneto

Public Meeting on "The Fairtrade network of the Region of Veneto: the strength of a movement for an economy of...

On May 12 2011, the Conference Hall of the Region of Veneto, Venice, will host the meeting "The Fairtrade network...

Last update 29/4/2011
World Urban Forum 5: The Right to the City-Bridging the Urban Divide, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil , 22 - 26 March, 2010

European Civil Meeting. Budapest 05-07 June 2011

"Promoting active European citizenship" is the semi-motto of the fifth European civil society conference that is to be held from...

Last update 22/4/2011
Vittorio Arrigoni

Grief and Dismay for the barbaric murder of Vittorio Arrigoni

The Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua joins in the mourning and in the dismay for the murder...

Last update 15/4/2011
Copertina del volume AA.VV., Intercultural Dialogue and Citizenship. Translating Values into Actions - A Common Project for Europeans and Their Partners (2007)

World Forum on intercultural dialogue. Baku 7-9 April 2011

The World Forum on intercultural dialogue took place in Baku (Azerbaijan): “Intercultural knowledge and cultural diversity to achieve peace and...

Last update 13/4/2011