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During the UN Human Rights Council's annual meeting in Geneva, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, highlighted the critical task of adopting a zero-tolerance approach ...
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has released a study about the progress of gender equality during the past 10 years, but the results are not bright: 25% of men still believe to be justifiable ...
The School of Psychology of the University of Padova is organizing a series of debates to be held throughout the year. The aim of the debates is to foster critical thinking and to allow students to ...
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has developed the Jobs Gap, an indicator that tracks all job seekers who cannot find employment. This indicator showed that women's access to employment, ...
International Women's Day has been celebrated in many countries around the world on 8 March since 1977. On this day, the achievements of all women are celebrated, regardless of divisions, be they ...
The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) declared on Friday, 3 March 2023 that, for the first time, women are present in all parliaments of the world and that their participation today is much more ...
Wednesday, 8 March 2023 at 11 am (CET) will take place the 6th online Global Campus of Human Rights Conversation, via zoom. On the occasion of International Women's Day 2023 the ...
The Gender Equality Index, developed by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), measures the painfully slow progress of gender equality in the EU since 2010. It gives visibility to areas ...
The human rights of elderly people are under pressure in a social context where the demographic is changing towards an ageing population, which translate into a specific form of discrimination ...
On Sptemeber 30th, thirty-eight Council of Europe member states have committed to a “Dublin Declaration” outlining a series of steps to promote gender equality in order to help prevent ...
The Global Campus of Human Rights organises the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Science and Human Rights that will take place from 10 October to 13 November 2022. This MOOC is the first ...
A new Council of Europe report reviews the progress achieved in European countries in guaranteeing full legal gender recognition (LGR) in all areas of life. The report acknowledges advances in ...
According to Téné Maimouna Zoungrana, an officer from Burkina Faso serving with the UN Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), women are often “placed second or even ...
World Inequality Lab has released the World Inequality Report 2022. This report is based on the World Inequality Database and is the culmination of four years of work contributed by more than 100 ...
Coming to the end of 2021, UN Women published on its website some highlights from the period 2020-2021, to reflect on past actions and to look forward to the next year. The years 2020 and 2021 ...
