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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

FRA logo
human rights

FRA: Italy in Fundamental Rights Report 2024

Young boy patient in a hospital bed being reassured by a female doctor with stethoscope
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Italy

Médecins Sans Frontières's Work in Italy: an overview of 2024

Memorial to the Victims of Communism and to the Resistance. From left to right: Petru Dunca, Carlotta Rossato, Mihai Barlea Gheorghe, Paolo De Stefani
Universal Declaration

Human Rights Centre visits the Baia Mare University, Romania

"Make Ecocide An International Crime Now" sign on the tarmac at a rally against climate change
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environment

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk: Ecocide as international crime

delegates arriving to attend the General Assembly
© UN Photo/Loey Felipe
artificial intelligence (AI)

United Nations: Resolution 79/L.77 adopted by the General Assembly on lethal autonomous weapons systems

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War/Conflict

In Case of Crisis or War: the brochure made by the Swedish Government to prepare for war scenarios

Italy

Council of Europe: Commissioner for Human Rights asks the Italian Senate to refrain from adopting the security bill which runs against human rights

International Criminal Court (ICC), in The Hague, Netherlands.
© UN Photo/Rick Bajornas
International Criminal Court

ICC: Arrest warrant demanded for Myanmar Commander-in-Chief after Rohingya crimes

Geir Pedersen, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, briefs the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East (Syria).
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Syria

Syria: United Nations’s response to the fall of the regime of Bashar Al-Assad

The Justice and Correction Section of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) supports a gardening project in the local jail in Sevare, which allows prisoners to grow their own food and to garnish a small income from the sale of that which they produce. Here, the hands of two prisoners who participate in the project. Their faces are not shown in order to respect their privacy and protect their identity.
© UN Photo/Harandane Dicko
prison conditions

The Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee publishes a report on its visit to four closed migrants’ pre-repatriation centres in Italy

Logo Convegno "Dal progetto ‘Caschi bianchi oltre le vendette’ ai Corpi civili di pace”, Aula Magna “Galileo Galilei” dell’Università di Padova, martedì 8 luglio 2014
Civil Peace Corps

Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII: Call for Civil Peace Corps Published

Women care work
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work

The hidden workforce: Unpaid care work keeps 708 million women out of the labor