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Venice School for Human Rights Defenders - Global Campus of Human Rights
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Global Campus of Human Rights: Venice School for Human Rights Defenders

The Global Campus of Human Rights Project Department in cooperation with the European Parliament organises the Venice School for Human Rights Defenders that will take place ...

Last update 7 Apr 2022
Prison cell
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Death penalty should be abolished: Mass executions in Saudi Arabia and Egypt

While the world is focusing on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, other serious violations of human rights continue to take place in other parts of the world. Recently, the mass executions in Saudi ...

Last update 7 Apr 2022
Girls at school in Herat, Afghanistan
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UN: Failure to re-open schools for all girls is deeply disappointing and damaging for Afghanistan

Despite the previous declaration, Taliban authorities at the last minute withdrew the decision on reopening the high schools for girls in Afghanistan. After more than six months of ...

Last update 20 Apr 2022
Scholars at Risk
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Scholars at Risk seminar series: ‘Human Rights in Afghanistan: Past, Present, and Future’

Scholars at Risk at the University of Padova, in collaboration with the SPGI (Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies of the University of Padua) and the Elena ...

Last update 6 Apr 2022
To The Righthouse - Podcast Sessions
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Global Campus of Human Rights: ‘To The Righthouse’ podcast series

The Global Campus of Human Rights (GCHR) started a new initiative - a podcast series ‘To the Righthouse’, which is a platform to discuss human rights from multiple points of ...

Last update 4 Apr 2022
Implementing ECHR judgments: New factsheet on domestic violence cases
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Implementing ECHR judgments: New factsheet on domestic violence cases

The Council of Europe’s Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights has issued the thirteenth thematic factsheet with a particular focus on domestic ...

Last update 4 Apr 2022
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International Joint Ph.D Programme "Human Rights, Society, and Multi-level Governance" (Cycles 31-37)

-- The International Joint Ph.D Programme is a three-year, interdisciplinary, joint academic programme managed by Universities in Australia, Croatia, Cyprus, Italy, coordinated by the ...

Last update 4 Apr 2022
Families in Tong Ping displaced persons settlement carry their newly received non food items back to where they're staying.
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The difficulties of international organisations in achieving peace: the case of South Sudan

Andrea Premarini holds a master’s degree in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance from the University of Padova. This article is an excerpt from “The role of international ...

Last update 26 Mar 2024
UN expert: States should ensure accountability, transparency and access to sites of secret detention
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UN expert: States should ensure accountability, transparency and access to sites of secret detention

The Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, presented her Follow-up report on the ...

Last update 20 Apr 2022
The Polish-Ukrainian border in Dorohusk-Jagodzin
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FRA: Key fundamental rights risks at the EU-Ukraine borders

On 23 March European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published a short report on the situation at the EU-Ukraine borders: ‘EU-Ukrainian border check points: First field ...

Last update 20 Apr 2022
Comic created on the occasion of the war in Kosovo in 1999 depicting a mother and her child screaming while embracing each other as bullets and missiles fly by.
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Special edition of the Peace and Fraternity March Perugia-Assisi, Sunday 24th April 2022

Dear Friends,   With each day that passes, the war in Ukraine becomes more inhuman and blind. Because of that we invite you to join us and organise together a Special Peace and Fraternity ...

Last update 25 Mar 2022
Marcia Perugia Assisi 2021, studenti e studentesse UNIPD
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Join the Human Rights Centre 'Antonio Papisca' for the Special Peace and Fraternity March Perugia-Assisi, Sunday 24th April 2022

Just before the Liberation Day, we will meet again to walk the path of peace, disarmament and nonviolence, following the footsteps of St Francis, Aldo Capitini, Giorgio La Pira and  Ernesto ...

Last update 20 Apr 2022
The International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC/CPI), Netherlands.
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War in Ukraine: The international law scenario and the the ICC investigations 31 March 2022, 16:30-18:30

War in Ukraine: The international law scenario and the the ICC investigations 31 March 2022, 16:30-18:30 GREETINGS Prof. Tarcisio Gazzini President of the School of Economics and Political ...

Last update 25 Mar 2022
A young migrant from Darfur waits to reach England from Calais, France.
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OHCHR: UK border reform bill increases the risk of serious human rights violations

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, urged the United Kingdom to reconsider proposed changes to its border policy and to ensure that the proposed Nationality and Borders ...

Last update 25 Mar 2022
UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Mr. Balakrishnan Rajagopal
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UN expert: Spatial segregation continues to undermine human rights

The UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Mr. Balakrishnan Rajagopal, during the 49th session of Human Rights Council presented his report on spatial segregation and the right to ...

Last update 25 Mar 2022