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On 2 November, at 3.30 p.m., the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua hosts a meeting with Adrien-Claude Zoller, founder and president of the NGO Geneva for Human Rights. Zoller' ...
The Anna Lindh Foundation (ALF) and the Swedish Institute have organised on 30 and 31 October 2011 in Alexandria (Egypt) the first edition of the Alexandria Annual Education Convention on the theme ...
This year, in the framework of the National civil service programme, 20.123 volunteers will be selected in order to participate in different projects in Italy and abroad. Information on all projects ...
The energy crisis and the challenges of climate change have forced states to look for other energy sources. The production and the use of agrofuels are one of the strategy states have been adopting ...
On 23rd October 2011 Tunisia held the Constituent Assembly elections which were the first elections after the removal of the former President Ben Ali. The Constituent Assembly will be composed by ...
He was among the most highly regarded and internationally known Italian jurist in the last decades. He matched the doctrine with a sophisticated understanding of international political events. For ...
In May 2010, the Permanent People's Tribunal met in Madrid to hold its session on 'The European Union and Transnational Corporations in Latin America: Policies, Instruments and Actors Complicit in ...
The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change expresses the urgent need to mitigate climate change in order “to protect climate system for present and future ...
Despite the large mechanization in the agrofuels sector, there are still some activities requiring the intensive human labour: the preparation of the soil before sowing, mostly pulling up roots and ...
Enforced evictions and illegal expropriations deeply influences the life of indigenous peoples upsetting their traditional way of living: the way to organise the collective life, the way to feed, ...
The indigenous peoples' right to own and possess their territories extends to natural resources. The ILO Convention No. 169 specifies that the term 'land' used in Article 14 of the Convention is ...
The licences of governments to the companies for the development of agrofuels are easily granted by reason of the presumed advantages that this kind of activity can bring: independence from fossil ...
When the interests for agrofuels widely prevail on food wants, taking off lands from food crops the right to food is affected and in many cases threatened. Especially in developing countries the ...
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 ...
Water is the essential resource for life and every human being has the right to access to water necessary for his/her basic needs. Nevertheless, the international human rights law, surprisingly, is ...