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The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) called upon the European states to address the problem of persistent prison overcrowding. “Prison ...
The Council of Europe has issued a set of guidelines to its 46 member states aimed at preventing and combating online and offline hate speech. In a Recommendation adopted during its annual session ...
The newest report “The role of social protection in the elimination of child labour”, issued jointly by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Children's Fund ...
Thi Ngoc Anh Nguyen holds a master’s degree in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance from the University of Padova. She is an International Research Fellow at the Information ...
The European Commission is taking action to improve the protection of journalists and human rights defenders from abusive court proceedings. On 27 April 2022, the Commission proposed a ...
The Global Campus of Human Rights organises the 2022 edition of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Business and Human rights that will take place from 23 May to 26 June ...
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) is organising the fourth Fundamental Rights Dialogue, which will take place on 7 May 2022, from 11:00 to 12:30 in Paris and will be live-streamed. The ...
According to ILGA World and ISHR, the UN Special Procedures have given more attention to LGBTI+ communities in 2021. The Special Procedures continued raising concerns in regard to human rights ...
While the world is focusing on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, other serious violations of human rights continue to take place in other parts of the world. Recently, the mass executions in Saudi ...
Scholars at Risk at the University of Padova, in collaboration with the SPGI (Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies of the University of Padua) and the Elena ...
On 23 March European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published a short report on the situation at the EU-Ukraine borders: ‘EU-Ukrainian border check points: First field ...
On February 23rd the Front Line Defenders published its Global Analysis on the situation of human rights defenders (HRDs) at risk around the world. The Global Analysis provides a ...
The latest report from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), ‘Guardianship systems for unaccompanied children in the EU’, shows that both, the EU and its Member States, still face ...
WeProtect Global Alliance published the 2021 Global Threat Assessment report on child sexual exploitation and abuse online. It is the most comprehensive yet, demonstrating how the global response to ...
For nearly three decades, the UN has been bringing together almost every country on earth for global climate summits – known as COPs – which stands for ‘Conference of the ...