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Schools ecuador
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Human Rights Watch report: sexual violence remains endemic in Ecuador’s schools

Sexual and gender-based violence is a long-standing, pervasive problem in Ecuador’s schools. The 60-page Human Rights Watch report, “‘Like Patchwork’: Ecuador’s Slow ...

Last update 28 Aug 2024
voto venezuela
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Venezuela: Guterres calls for ‘complete transparency’ following disputed presidential election

Last Sunday, July 28, Venezuelan presidential elections were held with a recorded attendance of 59% of valid voters, according to figures from the National Electoral Council (CNE for its acronym in ...

Last update 10 Aug 2024
Thousands of people gathered in Caracas, Venezuela, on April 6, 2019 during a demonstration called by opposition leader and self-proclaimed president of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó. Guaidó invited his supporters to attend the demonstrations to exert more press
[Files]

Navigating Justice: The ICC's Role in Venezuela's Human Rights Crisis

Claudia Cañón Nogales holds a BA degree in International Relations from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and a MA degree in Human Rights and Multi-Level Governance from the ...

Last update 5 Jun 2024
Rally in favour of human rights defenders in Colombia
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The right to live in peace of the community of San José de Apartadó and Colombia: the appeal from academics

“It is time to restore the right of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó and Colombia to live in peace.” In 2016, a Peace Agreement was signed between the State of ...

Last update 5 Sep 2024
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UN agencies call for more collaboration over refugee, migration crisis in Americas

The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have called for greater multilateral action to regularize movement across the continent of the ...

Last update 26 May 2023
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United Nations: Implementation and dialogue, the key-words for Colombia

According to UN Special Representative for Colombia Carlos Ruiz Massieu, in order to guarantee the success of the Colombian peace agreement, signed in 2016 between the government and the FARC-EP ...

Last update 7 May 2023
Fresh local market in Venice, Italy.
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Policy Solutions to Realise the Right to Food of Children in Colombia: An Integrative Approach

Carolina Mejía Toro holds a master’s degree in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance from the University of Padova. This In Focus article is an excerpt from her master ...

Last update 26 Mar 2024
 indigenous woman holds brazilian flag with red stains representing blood.
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Brazil: UN human rights expert appeals that Supreme Court must uphold indigenous land rights

A UN human rights expert called on the Brazilian Supreme Court to secure the rights of indigenous peoples to their lands and to reject a legal argument being promoted by some businesses that want to ...

Last update 1 Sep 2021
Thursday, May 13 - 17:00 Peaceful demonstration for a ceasefire and defence of human rights in Colombia, Porta Portello, Padua
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Peaceful demonstration for a ceasefire and defence of human rights in Colombia, Thursday 13 May at 5 pm, Porta Portello, Padova

In Padua, in Porta Portello, on Thursday 13th May 2021, a peaceful demonstration will be held in defence of the human rights of the Colombian population. A day to understand the conflict, enjoy art, ...

Last update 13 May 2021
Front Line Defenders, Global analysis 2020
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Front Line Defenders Global Analysis 2020

Front Line Defenders has published a global analysis on human rights defenders (HRDs) in 2020, which analyses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on human rights and HRDs. The report finds that ...

Last update 26 Feb 2021
A wall with the Garden's motto
[Institutional Contents]

Two meetings on human rights with the Italian Ambassador Enrico Calamai

The Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies of the University of Padova hosts two meetings with the Italian Ambassador Enrico Calamai to debate and reflect with students on ...

Last update 26 Jan 2017
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Table of relevant cases on indigenous peoples' rights

Case of the Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v. Nicaragua, (Judgment on Merits, Reparations and Costs), Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), Series C No. 29 (31 August 2001) Case of ...

Last update 26 Oct 2011
[Publications]

"The wounds we bear are the freedoms we lack "; human rights and the rights of peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean

Waldo Ansaldi, Fernardo Calderón (1991)

Articolo / Saggio

Last update 8 Nov 2010