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There are 10 treaties on human rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly establishing human rights protection Committees (treaty bodies): the International Convention on the Elimination ...
The 304th session of the European Committee of Social Rights of the Council of Europe was held from 21 to 24 January 2019 in Strasbourg. The members of the Committee, on this occasion, re-elected ...
As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights marks its 70th year, UNESCO is launching a digital campaign on the #RightToEducation, a right that is at the core of its global mission to ensure equal ...
The European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) has published its annual conclusions for 2017 on the 33 States adhering to the European Social Charter (1961) and the revised European Social Charter ...
The Council of Europe has produced the film “Turin Process” with the aim of promoting the European Social Charter. The film has been made in the framework of the Turin process for ...
On Wednesday 14th June, 2017, the University of Padova Human Rights Centre will host a seminar with Professor Jessica Whyte from Western Sydney University. The seminar takes place within the field ...
Between February and March 2017, four collective complaints against Italy were made to the European Committee of Social Rights. Three of the collective complaints claim that Italy violated ...
A statement on Human Rights Defenders and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights was released by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR). The statement highlights 8 points of ...
Applications for the Venice Academy of Human Rights Summer School, which will be held from the 3rd-12th July 2017 are open. This year’s theme is “Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as ...
The decision of the European Committee of Social Rights on the merits of the complaint Associazione Nazionale Giudici di Pace v. Italy (n° 102/2013) became public on 16 November 2016. In this ...
University Women of Europe (UWE), an association engaged in the European context for women's rights, has filled collective complaints against 15 countries for the alleged violations of the ...
The Winter School “Microfinance in Action”, promoted by the the Human Rights Centre and the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies (SPGI) of the University of ...
The Deputy Secretary-general of the United Nations made important remarks about the role of the Covenant on civil and political rights and the Covenant on economic social and cultural rights since ...
The Italian Interministerial Committee for Human Rights (CIDU) has launched an online public consultation on the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights 2016-2021 with the aim of ...
On 9 October 2015, at the end of the 56th session held in Geneva from 21st September to 9th October, the UN Committee for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) adopted the concluding ...