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[Events and Updates]

European Roma and Sinti Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2 August 2024

On 2 August 2024, the European Roma and Sinti Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the tragic episode that cost the lives of 4,300 people. On the ...

Last update 30 Jul 2024
Refugees ride in the back of a truck as they arrive in Kornidzor, Armenia, September 26, 2023.
[Events and Updates]

United Nations: Human Rights expert calls on Azerbaijan to guarantee the rights of ethnic Armenians Nagorno-Karabakh

On September 27th, Morris Tidball-Binz, the UN Human Rights Council-appointed Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, explained that Azerbaijan must guarantee the ...

Last update 5 Oct 2023
Cover Peace Human Rights Governance Journal PHRG - 2017
[Events and Updates]

PHRG - Peace Human Rights Governance: the June 2023 issue is out

The University of Padua's 'Antonio Papisca' Centre for Human Rights has published the first issue of the seventh volume of the scientific journal Peace Human Rights Governance (PHRG), a thematic ...

Last update 5 Jul 2023
[Events and Updates]

United Nations: Published new guide “Protecting Minority Rights: A Practical Guide to Developing Comprehensive Anti-Discrimination Legislation”

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights and the Equal Rights Trust have joined forces to launch “Protecting Minority Rights: A Practical Guide to Developing ...

Last update 30 Dec 2022
[Events and Updates]

University of Padova International Conference Keynote Speaker: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities

Ambassador Kairat Abdrakhmanov of Kazakhstan was appointed OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) in 2020. The role of the HCNM is focused primarily on addressing the short term ...

Last update 10 Nov 2022
30th Anniversary pf the UN Declaration on minority rights
[Events and Updates]

United Nations: 30th Anniversary of the Declaration on minority rights

30 years ago, on 18 December 1992, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the UN Declaration of the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious, and linguistic minorities to ...

Last update 31 May 2022
hate crime FRA
[Events and Updates]

FRA: Report hate crime, support victims

FRA’s latest report ‘Encouraging hate crime reporting: the role of law enforcement and other authorities’ highlights the gaps in hate crime reporting across the EU. FRA calls on EU ...

Last update 15 Jul 2021
Comitato europeo dei diritti sociali: conclusioni 2020 relative a impiego, formazione e pari oportunità
[Events and Updates]

European Committee of Social Rights: 2020 conclusions on employment, training and equal opportunities

The European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) published its 2020 conclusions on the provisions of the European Social Charter:  the right to work (Article 1); the right to vocational ...

Last update 4 Apr 2021
[Publications]

Peace Human Rights Governance (VOL. 2, NO. 1 March, 2018)

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Rivista Peace Human Rights Governance (PHRG)

Last update 26 Feb 2021
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
[Events and Updates]

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
Amnesty International Italy: FASE 1 tra discriminazione e buone prassi
[Databases]

Civil society organisations and networks

Amnesty International Phase 1: the implementation of lockdown measures in Italy during the pandemic, amid discrimination and good practices (italian), 23 July 2020.  A guide for Europe: ...

Last update 30 Nov 2020
Roma and travellers report
[Events and Updates]

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
Human Rights Centre Library
[Events and Updates]

Human Rights Centre: 9th and 10th May - seminars with Dr. Corinne Lennox and Dr. Damien Short (University of London)

On the 9th and 10th May, 2017, the University of Padova Human Rights Centre will play host to two seminars from the Human Rights Consortium of the University of London. The first is ...

Last update 28 Apr 2017
Headquarters of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg (France).
[Events and Updates]

Council of Europe: the fourth opinion on the implementation of the Framework convention on national minorities in Italy was published

On 28 July 2016 the Council of Europe’s Advisory committee on the Framework convention on national minorities published its fourth opinion on the implementation of the convention in Italy. The ...

Last update 30 Jul 2016
University of Padua, Palazzo del Bo, a view of the upper corridor of the Ancient Courtyard
[Institutional Contents]

International Seminar "Religions, Conflicts and Minorities"

The School of Economics and Political Science, the Department of Political Science, Law and International Relations and the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padova, in cooperation with ...

Last update 26 Mar 2019