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Combating hate speech Poster
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Council of Europe: new guidelines to combat hate speech

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 ...

Last update 6 Jun 2022
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ILO/UNICEF: social protection contributes to reducing child labour

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 ...

Last update 6 Jun 2022
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Right to be forgotten for victims of image-based sexual abuse: A case of Telegram

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 ...

Last update 26 Mar 2024
Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation (SLAPPs)
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European Commission’s Anti-SLAPP initiative

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 ...

Last update 11 May 2022
GCHR: MOOC on Business and Human Rights
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Global Campus of Human Rights: MOOC on Business and Human Rights

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 ...

Last update 11 May 2022
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FRA: Fundamental Rights Dialogue in Paris, 7 May 2022

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 ...

Last update 11 May 2022
LGBTI+ rights
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LGBTI+ rights: UN Special Procedures have given more attention to SOGIESC in 2021

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 ...

Last update 20 Apr 2022
Prison cell
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Death penalty should be abolished: Mass executions in Saudi Arabia and Egypt

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 ...

Last update 7 Apr 2022
Scholars at Risk
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Scholars at Risk seminar series: ‘Human Rights in Afghanistan: Past, Present, and Future’

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 ...

Last update 6 Apr 2022
The Polish-Ukrainian border in Dorohusk-Jagodzin
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FRA: Key fundamental rights risks at the EU-Ukraine borders

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 ...

Last update 20 Apr 2022
Front Line Defenders - Global Analysis 2021
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Front line defenders: Global Analysis 2021

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 ...

Last update 16 Mar 2022
Girl hugs a doll in front of a window
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FRA: Effective guardianship is key to better protect unaccompanied children

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 ...

Last update 15 Mar 2022
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The 2021 Global Threat Assessment report: A need for a new approach for Child sexual abuse online

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 ...

Last update 10 Feb 2022
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COP26: history and goals of the 2021 United Nations climate change conference

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 ...

Last update 30 Oct 2021
frontpage of the book " Defend who defends - ways of protection of Human Rights defenders "
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Defend who defends - ways of protection of Human Rights defenders

The research “Defend who defends - ways of protection of Human defenders” (Difendere chi difende: Rights  Forme e modelli di protezione delle difensore e difensori dei diritti ...

Last update 8 Jul 2021