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Summer School "Normativity and Reality of Human Rights" (2019): Situations of human rights vulnerability to AI and ICT, London, SAS, July 7-12, 2019
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Summer School 2019

Human rights vulnerability to AI and ICT London, SAS, July 7-12, 2019 Human Rights Consortium, Senate House Malet Street, London - WC1E 7HU ...

Last update 29 Apr 2024
FRA: State of criminal justice in the EU - Presumption of innocence and related rights
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European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights: state of criminal justice in the EU - Presumption of innocence and related rights

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) launched a new report: Presumption of innocence and related rights. Professional perspectives. It is the latest contribution to ...

Last update 6 Jun 2022
Overcrowded prisons
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Prison overcrowding: the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture calls for setting a limit to the number of inmates in every prison and promoting non-custodial measures

The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT)  called upon the European states to address the problem of persistent prison overcrowding. “Prison ...

Last update 6 Jun 2022
2022 World Forum for democracy by the Council of Europe
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Council of Europe: call for initiatives for the 10th World Forum for Democracy (November 2022)

Under the title “Democracy: A new hope?” The 10th World Forum for Democracy organised by the Council of Europe, launched a call for initiatives inviting NGOs, think tanks, as well ...

Last update 6 Jun 2022
Protecting rights of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls: Council of Europe recommendation adopted
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The Council of Europe has adopted recommendations to protect the rights of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls

The Committee of Ministers, meeting in Turin, has adopted a new recommendation to protect the rights of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls providing measures to better respond to ...

Last update 6 Jun 2022
A woman harvests rice and maize on a community farm in Viet Nam.
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World Environment Day 2022: Only One Earth

Led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and held annually on 5 June, World Environment Day is the largest global platform for environmental public outreach and is celebrated by ...

Last update 16 Jun 2022
FIVE WAYS TO TALK TO CHILDREN ABOUT SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
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Save the Children: 5 ways to talk to children about school shootings

Recently, nineteen children and two adults were killed in a mass school shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Many children around the world are learning about the violence through ...

Last update 6 Jun 2022
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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University of Padova: conference on "Libertas. Spaces and practices of academic freedom" (22-24 June 2022), registration deadline 10 June 2022

To celebrate eight centuries of commitment to the protection and promotion of academic freedom and to revive such commitment the University of Padova, in collaboration with Scholars at Risk (SAR) ...

Last update 26 Mar 2024
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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
Changing the position of women in the field of security in the Central African Republic
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Breaking prison barriers in the Central African Republic: changing the position of women in the field of security

According to Téné Maimouna Zoungrana, an officer from Burkina Faso serving with the UN Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), women are often “placed second or even ...

Last update 6 Jun 2022
IOM staff and local authorities discuss the needs of internally displaced persons in front of a damaged school in Zhytomyr centre.
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International Organization for Migration (IOM): Needs Growing for Over 8 Million Internally Displaced in Ukraine

The official number of people internally displaced by the war in Ukraine has surpassed the 8 million mark, according to the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) latest ...

Last update 31 May 2022
Hands offering bread
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UNDP report 2022: The war in Ukraine and the new crisis looming in Africa

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has issued a new report, The Impact of the War in Ukraine on Sustainable Development in Africa, warning that the impacts of the war in Ukraine on the ...

Last update 6 Jun 2022
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GRETA: new guidance on addressing the risks of human trafficking

Council of Europe anti-trafficking body GRETA has issued a Guidance Note on addressing the risks of trafficking in human beings related to the war in Ukraine and the ensuing humanitarian crisis. It ...

Last update 31 May 2022
The Council of Europe has adopted recommendation to protect the rights of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls.
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Council of Europe: the Committee of Ministers has adopted recommendation to protect the rights of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls

The Committee of Ministers, meeting in Turin, has adopted a new recommendation to protect the rights of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls providing measures to better respond to ...

Last update 31 May 2022