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Human Rights Day 2020 -- Recover Better
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Human Rights Day, 10 December 2020: Recover Better - Stand Up for Human Rights

Human Rights Day is celebrated every year on 10 December, the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR is a milestone ...

Last update 3 Dec 2020
The Committee of Ministers, at its 1389th Meeting on 25 November 2020, held an exchange of views with Ms Marie B. Hagsgård, Acting President of the Advisory Committee, who presented the 12th activity report covering the period from 1 June 2018 to 31 May 2
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Council of Europe: backsliding on minority rights weakens democracy

Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities of the Council of Europe has published its twelfth activity report covering the period from June 2018 to May ...

Last update 2 Dec 2020
Roma and travellers report
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Pandemic worsens Roma and Travellers poverty and discrimination

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has issued a new bulletin entitled “Coronavirus pandemic in the EU – Impact on Roma and Travellers”. This fifth ...

Last update 20 Oct 2020
Defending tomorrow. Report. Logo
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Global Witness Annual Report on Land and Environmental Defenders: attacks are on the rise

In July 2020, Global Witness published an Annual Report on Land and Environmental Defenders. The report, entitled Defending Tomorrow, contains information regarding the situation around ...

Last update 12 Aug 2020
Amnesty International Italia
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Amnesty International Italia: the report on lockdown’s measures in Italy during the phase 1 of the COVID-19 pandemic

During the handover of signatures of the appeal #Nessunoescluso to the president of Council of ministers Giuseppe Conte, Amnesty International Italia published a report entitled “Phase 1: ...

Last update 1 Aug 2020
Leaflet International conference "On women's rights: between violence and exploitation"
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International conference "On women's rights: between violence and exploitation", University of Padova, November 11-12, 2019

The International Conference is organized by the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies and the Human Rights Centre “Antonio Papisca” of the ...

Last update 22 Nov 2019
African migrant women on a boat
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Women and Migration: between Violence, Discrimination and Intersectionality

Elena Galzignato, holds a master's degree in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance & International Relations obtained in the framework of the double degree programme established between ...

Last update 23 Sep 2019
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Council of Europe: an initiative to let everyone know ECRI’s General Policy Recommendations

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) was established by the Council of Europe in 1993. It is an independent human rights monitoring body specialised in questions relating to ...

Last update 30 Oct 2018
Panoramic photo of the building headquarters of the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France.
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European Court of Human Rights: Italian authorities failed to protect a mother and son by not taking prompt action on complaints concerning conjugal violence

With the judgment of 2nd March 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) condemned Italy for the case of Talpis v Italy (no. 41237/14). Ms. Talpis brought the case in front of the ECtHR ...

Last update 21 Mar 2017
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2014 Annual report of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance: a dramatic increase in antisemitism, Islamophobia and online hate speech

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) published its Annual report which identifies a dramatic increase in antisemitism, Islamophobia, online hate speech and xenophobic ...

Last update 21 Jul 2015
Representatives of minority of Gagauz people in Ukraine.
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Minority rights

The modern Ukraine іs a multinational Country with representatives of more than 130 nationalities living in its territory. As recorded in the 2001 census, the main minority groups include Russians ...

Last update 2 Jan 2015
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Human Rights Watch: Italy should strenghten legal protection for LGTB people

Human Rights Watch has affirmed that the Italian Chamber of deputies should adopt the strongest possible measures against discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity. ...

Last update 20 Sep 2013
A painting on yellow cloth, created for an exhibit inside the UNESCO Headquarters, in occasion of the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.
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The inhuman working conditions in monocropping plantations as new forms of slavery

Despite the large mechanization in the agrofuels sector, there are still some activities requiring the intensive human labour: the preparation of the soil before sowing, mostly pulling up roots and ...

Last update 26 Oct 2011
Headquarters of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg (France).
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Council of Europe: PACE denounces the rise of security discourse stigmatising Roma

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) denounced the increasingly frequent use of security discourse on the national political scene. Presenting her report to the Assembly, ...

Last update 12 Oct 2010
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Consiglio d'Europa: Dichiarazione sull'intolleranza, una minaccia per la democrazia

Documentazione (1990)

Documentazione

Last update 9 Nov 2010