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Human rights Council, Session
UPR

Universal Periodic Review: Italy’s Pre-session planned for November 22, 2024

Studenti del Doppio Titolo e Erasmus+ a Lione, 2024-25
MA Degree Programme

MA in human rights: Padua Double Degree students in Lyon

Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, briefs reporters at UN Headquarters.
© UN Photo/Mark Garten
Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Genocide as colonial erasure: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese

Group picture
International Conference

The International Conference ‘The Values and Legal Power of Global Civil Society in the Face of the Crisis of Values and Law. Ideas and actions to shape an international order of peace' has been successfully concluded

Hands holding a document entitled: "Supplement to the UN, declaration on human rights defenders"
human rights defenders (HRDs)

Declaration+25: setting out international standards to protect the right to defend rights

LGBTI+ rights
© Ludovic Bertron / Common Wikimedia
LGBTQI+

Council of Europe: new report reveals that LGBTI individuals face inadequate healthcare access and recommends solutions

Human Rights Committee in session
refugees

The students of the Refugee Rights Lab of the University of Padova present their submission to the Human Rights Committee in Geneva

Protests are under way in New York City against racism and police violence after the death of George Floyd. Protests first erupted on 25 May, after video footage went viral on social media of a white police officer in the city of Minneapolis, United States, kneeling on the neck of African American George Floyd, for more than eight minutes, causing his death while in police custody. His death set off a nationwide outcry over racial inequality and police brutality, that have inspired protests in solidarity and against racism all over the world.
© UN Photo/Evan Schneider
discrimination

FRA: Muslims in Europe are experiencing rising levels of racism and discrimination

Women marching together holding placards bearing slogans such as "Black trans lives matter".
women

Global Campus of Human Rights: MOOC on Women at the forefront of Democratic Change

Protests are under way in New York City against racism and police violence after the death of George Floyd. Protests first erupted on 25 May, after video footage went viral on social media of a white police officer in the city of Minneapolis, United States, kneeling on the neck of African American George Floyd, for more than eight minutes, causing his death while in police custody. His death set off a nationwide outcry over racial inequality and police brutality, that have inspired protests in solidarity and against racism all over the world.
© UN Photo/Evan Schneider
racism

UN Experts' Report on Law Enforcement Violations Against Africans and People of African Descent

sustainable development

OHCHR: 2024 Social Forum on “The Contribution of Financing for Development to the Advancement of All Human Rights” , 31 October-1 November 2024

© UNPhoto/UNHCR / A. Duclos
migration

Amnesty reiterates concern over possible human rights violations in Italy-Albania Protocol

culture of peace

EuPRA Conference "Towards Utopias of Peace. Theories and Practices of Peace, Hope and Resistance in Troubled Times", Pisa, 5 - 9 November 2024

Students taking part in the simulation, Students in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance participate in the OSCE Mediterranean Simulation on Combating Human Trafficking, Vicenza, 7-11 October 2024
trafficking in human beings

Students in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance participate in the OSCE Mediterranean Simulation on Combating Human Trafficking, Vicenza, 7-11 October 2024

An Italian Peacekeeper of the UNIFIL (UN Interim Force in Lebanon) in camoflauge, patrolling the borderline between Lebanon and Israel.
© UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
Lebanon

UN Security Council condemns escalation of violence in Lebanon