In Focus

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Catholicism and Human Rights

The file aims to shed a light on the dynamic relationship between Catholicism and the human rights paradigm. This relationship...


Created on: 18/07/2016 - Last Update: 18/7/2016
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Religion and the European Human Rights Standards

The file analyses the place of religious rights and freedoms in the European human rights framework. It deals with the...


Created on: 18/07/2016 - Last Update: 18/7/2016
International conference “Religions and Human Rights”, Padua (Italy), April 14-15, 2016

Religion and the International Human Rights Standards

The file analyses the place of religious rights and freedoms in the international human rights system. It deals with the...


Created on: 14/07/2016 - Last Update: 14/7/2016
National banners of the Member States of the UNO (United Nations Organization) outside the UN Headquarters.

Religion and the Human Rights Machinery

The protection and promotion of religious rights and liberties at the national, regional and international level is overseen by a...


Created on: 14/07/2016 - Last Update: 14/7/2016
Representatives of minority of Gagauz people in Ukraine.

Minority rights

This in-depth file provides information about the human rights situation of persons belonging to national minorities in Ukraine. Based on...


Created on: 25/11/2014 - Last Update: 25/11/2014
Ukrainian children wearing national costumes at the Independence Day celebration, 2011

Children’s rights

The information provided in this file is based on the reports of the Committee on the Rights of the Child...


Created on: 25/11/2014 - Last Update: 25/11/2014
Journalist documenting events at the Independence square during the clashes in Ukraine, Kyiv, 18 February, 2014.

Media Freedom

This in-depth file provides a brief overview of the situation of media freedom in Ukraine based on the reports of...


Created on: 25/11/2014 - Last Update: 25/11/2014
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Human rights NGOs in Ukraine

This file introduces the main Ukrainian NGOs and groups dealing with human rights, provides a brief information about their activities...


Created on: 25/11/2014 - Last Update: 25/11/2014
The buliding of the Parliament of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian human rights infrastructure

This file provides information about the infrastructure of human rights in Ukraine. It gives a brief overview of the activities...


Created on: 25/11/2014 - Last Update: 25/11/2014
Black-and-white photo of Eleanor Roosevelt with a poster in hand, on which is written the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Human rights legal framework in Ukraine

This in-depth file provides information about the legal framework of human rights in Ukraine. In particular, it gives an overview...


Created on: 24/11/2014 - Last Update: 24/11/2014
Sculpture made of small caliber weapons, used as raw material to educative laboratories for trainee blacksmiths, from the exposition "To Be Deter-mined/At Arms Length", promoted by the Cambodian government in cooperation with the European Union (1998).

National Human Rights Institutions in the Arab League member States

This file provides an overview of the National Human Rights Institutions operating in the Arab League member States, accredited (or...


Created on: 02/08/2013 - Last Update: 26/9/2013
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Ratification status of the major UN human rights treaties and of the African Charter on Human Rights and the Peoples’...


Created on: 30/07/2013 - Last Update: 26/9/2013
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Arab League combating human trafficking

This in-depth file gives an overview of the involvement that Arab League has in the anti- human trafficking field, the...


Created on: 30/07/2013 - Last Update: 26/9/2013
Secretary-General Kofi Annan (left) addressing the Summit of the League of Arab States, in Algiers. The Secretary-General visited Algeria to attend the Summit of the League of Arab States. Also present is Amre Moussa (center), Secretary-General of the Lea

Arab League Summits dealing with human rights

This in-depth file reviews some of the major Arab League Summits since the creation of the organization, specifically those that...


Created on: 30/07/2013 - Last Update: 26/9/2013
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre) meets with Nabil El Araby (right), Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, and Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Special Representative of the UN and the League of Arab States for Syria. 27 September 2012

Arab League initiatives, proposals and partnerships for peace and human rights

This in-depth file gives a brief overview of some of the initiatives, partnerships and researches launched by the Arab League...


Created on: 30/07/2013 - Last Update: 26/9/2013