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Caterina Romano

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Beatrice Erba

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The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA; French: Association Canadienne des Libertés Civiles) is a nonprofit organization in Canada devoted to the defence of civil liberties and constitutional rights.
The official languages are English and French. 

The CCLA was founded in 1964 in Toronto, prompted by the Ontario government's proposal of a bill that would have granted special powers to the police in the face of a rise in organized crime. Its predecessor was the Association for Civil Liberties, which at its foundation had been intended to address national issues, but had become focused primarily on issues in Ontario. The ACL was led by Irving Himel, and in response to the bill, he gathered human rights leaders in Toronto, including Pierre Berton, June Callwood, Bora Laskin, Mark MacGuigan, Harry Arthurs, and John Keiller MacKay, and they formed the CCLA with Mackay as its honorary president.
In 1968, the CCLA won a grant from the Ford Foundation to study due process in Canadian lower courts and used the findings as a guide for its advocacy in the ensuing years.
The CCLA was one of the few groups in Canada that protested the 1970 invocation of the War Measures Act by then Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau in response to the October Crisis in Quebec, which was a chain of events that started in October 1970 when members of the Front de libération du Québec kidnapped the provincial Deputy Premier Pierre Laporte and British diplomat James Cross from his Montreal residence.
In the opinion of Dominique Clément, its most enduring contribution was its influence on the drafting of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which was enacted in 1982.

I chose this association because I was looking for a place that we don’t usually talk about and because of his historical evolution and the historical event that it took part in. 

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Amref Health Africa (African Medical and Research Foundation) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1957 and still active today that aims to improve health in Africa through the active involvement of local communities. The organization mainly employs African staff (approximately 97%) and allocates much of its resources to training on-site medical personnel.
Amref is active in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and South Sudan and is currently the largest non-profit medical organization on the African continent. The most famous service among those carried out by Amref is that of Flying Doctors, airborne medical personnel who bring their assistance to the most remote and inaccessible areas of Africa.
Projects:
Amref conducts a series of parallel projects, all aimed at improving the health conditions of African countries. The main areas in which Amref operates concern:

•The fight against AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases;
•The fight against malaria;
•Diffusion in the territory of fundamental hygiene measures and sources of uncontaminated water;
•Family health;
•Clinical services, health emergency response;
•Training of medical personnel among local populations;
•Education;
•Assistance to street children in Nairobi.

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The Moroccan Association of Human Rights( AMDH) Carlotta Dall’Agata 

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The Moroccan Association of Human Rights( AMDH) Carlotta Dall’Agata 

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The Moroccan Association of Human Rights, AMDH, was founded in 1979, has 10,000 members in 93 branches.  The Association works for the protection and respect of human rights, in particular of women who are among those who suffer the most discrimination.  AMDH aims to promote gender equality through education in human rights values;  to force Morocco to ratify all international conventions;  integrating their requirements into Moroccan legislation;  ensure full compliance with these conventions;  monitor and support all human rights actions, as well as advocate and solidarity with their victims.

The Association participates in the "Equality without reservations" campaign which aims to remove the reservations in the Convention against all forms of discrimination against women, to ask for the enactment of a restrictive law on violence against women and to ask for the modification of the family code to the aim to achieve equality and combat all forms of discrimination against women.

I found this association in Morocco very interesting and I decided to choose it precisely because in some countries there is still violence and discrimination  of women.

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Lampedusa, welcome to Europe! By: Tea Sperandio 

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Lampedusa, welcome to Europe! By: Tea Sperandio 

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Washington D. C., Distretto di Columbia, Stati Uniti

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American ideas. Universal values. (Macchiavello G.)

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Human Rights First. (Washington D. C., Distretto di Columbia, Stati Uniti)

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Human Rights First. (Washington D. C., Distretto di Columbia, Stati Uniti)

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HRF is a non-profit international human rights organization based in Washington D.C., New York and Los Angeles. It was born in 1978 and in 2004 started its "End Torture Now" campaign. This organization creates the political environment and policy solutions necessary to guarantee consistent respect for human rights in fact HRF is governed by 73 members, including an Advocates Board of 30 people and an Emeritus Board of 12 people.  HRF is responsible for giving equality to all individuals independently of age, sex, religion, color, nationality and gender identity and leading them to the world of work ensuring that their rights are respected. The organization dealt also with the war against children in 1986, problems about the protection of Vietnamese and Cambodians in Thailand, the admission of Indochinese refugees to the United States in 1989, the exploitation of children in the Dominican Republic and more.
In the last years they have continued their work also thanks to the web which has allowed them to involve many more people and inform the world of the horror that still exists today and that many pretend not to see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0hgAH-r9H0&t=43s

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The Women's Refugee Commission is a nongovernmental organization founded in 1989 by four female activists, Liv Ullmann, Catherine O'Neill, Susan Stark Alberti and Susan Forbes Martin, who sought to address the specific needs of refugee women and children. The WRC strives to protect the rights of displaced and refugee women through social programming, international policy changes, and advocancy in countries with persisting refugee and migrant crises, including the US, Nigeria and Myanmar. They achieve these goals through resilience-based approaches, by promoting gender equality and the capacities of refugee women. They also distribuite humanitarian aid and resources to women in need to ensure their safety and wellbeing during relocation and displacement. The WRC successfully trained over 100 local health workers in Nigeria; with WRC' support, those health workers were able to provide health service s to nearly 8500 women and girls. WRC also identified 56 safe spaces for women and girls in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, were they could access health and social services. A very important action of WRC is their Sexual and Reproductive Health Program, by which they give refugee women the instruments to prevent a pregnancy, or to have a pregnancy or a sexual active life in complete health, and so that they fully realize what sex is and how to menage it, as far as possible. This program is fundamental because in these countries where WRC operates, poverty is as high as the bith rate, and that's because women don't have the instruments or the necessary knoweledge to protect themselves from STD, unwanted sex by men and so on.
I chose this organization because I have always been concerned about the rights of women, in particular refugee women. Everyday in the world, many women and young girls have to face with abuse, sexual assaults, because no one is there to protect them; they are violated, physically and pshycologically, they don't have rights, friends, a job, any moral support, sometimes they are hit by their husband or their kids are taken away from them, and that's because they don't have rights even on their children. In lots of countries, men go to war, and no one thinks about protecting women. If they find a way to arrive to another country that isn't in war, they often have to pay with their bodies for it. They are depraved of their dignity and their individuality, and usually they have not attended school, so they don't have the necessary knoweledge or instruments to find a job and emancipate themselves. All this must change. I highly value organizations like this, which work to bring a concrete help in these people's lives, and WRC ispired me to be a better person, too.
https://youtu.be/XWlQLolK74s
https://youtu.be/GhIMItEE-q4

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Between the train station of Cortona in Tuscany and Assisi in Umbria  during the second world war Gino Bartali transported fake documents of Jewish people to keep them in Italy.

Bartali was one of the most important cyclists in history, he won a lot of competitions such as the Giro d'Italia three times and Tour the France two times, but also the race from Milan to Sanremo and others important cyclist races.

He was not only a fantastic champion and a very important sport man, because from September 1943 to June 1944 he made lots of rides on his bicycle, carrying documents and passport photos inside the frame tubes and he gave these things to a secret printing house that could falsify the documents necessary for the escape of Jewish refugees.

Bartali used to cover long distances to train and with that excuse,when he was stopped by fascist police, he said that he was testing his new bike and he specifically asked that the bicycle not be touched, justifying himself by saying that the different parts of the vehicle had been carefully calibrated to obtain maximum speed.

There are several testimonies of Bartali's rescue work. First of all that of Giulia Donati, a Florentine woman who had lived in Israel since 1974, to whom Bartali personally delivered the forged documents that saved his entire family. Another witness, Renzo Ventura, stated that, during the Nazi occupation, his mother Marcella Frankenthal Ventura had received false documents from Bartali's hands, brought to them by the cyclist on behalf of the Dalla Costa network.

With his action, Bartali received a gold medal for civil merit in 2005, and was recognized as Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem on 23 September 2013 .

My decision to present this person has been highly influenced by the fact that I'm a cyclist and I love the history of this beautiful sport and the lives of famous cyclists, but Bartali particularly struck me by this act of great courage that he showed in a difficult period like the one he was experiencing

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The Maputo Protocol (Davide De Vincenzi)

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The Maputo Protocol (Davide De Vincenzi)

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The Maputo Protocol is a treaty on women's rights in Africa adopted by the African Union on 11 July 2003 in Maputo, Mozambique, in the context of the agreements defined by the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.

The treaty consists of 32 articles committing the countries that ratify it to adapt its own domestic legislation introducing an extended set of women's rights, including the right to dignity, life, mental integrity, inheritance upon the death of her husband, land tenure, education, consensual marriage, contraception and the autonomy of family planning. The protocol also formally condemns for the first time all traditional practices detrimental to the physical and mental integrity of women, such as female genital mutilation.

The Maputo Protocol entered into force on 25 November 2005 following the achievement of the necessary 15 ratifications; to date it has been signed by 42 African Union countries and ratified by 20.

I chose this topic because I found it very interesting: this ambitious project was in fact signed by very poor nations, which despite the difficulties wanted to get involved to promote human rights.

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Convention on the rights of the child (Carlotta Dall’Agata)

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Convention on the rights of the child (Carlotta Dall’Agata)

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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (commonly abbreviated as the CRC or UNCRC) is an international human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, composed of 18 independent experts, is responsible for supervising the implementation of the Convention by the states that have ratified it.
Switzerland ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1997 and has continued to enhance children's rights since. In 2011, the Federal Social Insurance Office began a program to protect youth from violence, and another for the education of and protection from the media. There have been minor improvements made within the scope of children's right protection since the second Swiss UPR from October 2012. These are mainly in relation to rights and regulations governing the punishment of child offenders, however, not in relation to the high statistics of abuse.
I find this topic very interesting, often young people are victims of abuse and unfortunately they go unnoticed, so it is right that we have these associations

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A big issue for Romania during the last 20 years has been the increasing number of children that live alone because of their parents being abroad for work.
In 2017, the Ministry of Education estimated that 94.896 children had both parents abroad, but the regional inspectorate said that the real number was around 159.038 kids.

Save the Children Romania has been running, since the year 2010, a complex program for the protection and education of children left alone at home as a result of their parents leaving for work abroad.

Studies have shown the impact of parents' departure on the good development of their children and the needs they have during the lack of parental care.

The aim of the program is to help children left alone at home, but also their parents or caregivers to overcome this period of crisis, by developing services for them and by efforts to improve law enforcement. The interventions of the program are structured within two main components: direct intervention services for children and families and information and counseling services.

Through the local caravans, information activities were organized in over 1,100 localities, both rural and urban, attended by over 124,000 people (parents, children, teachers and representatives of local authorities, especially employees of town halls, who meet social assistance tasks). Information campaigns were carried out (media, online, local caravans, distribution of information materials to relevant institutions in the country).
Other activities included: additional school training for children, social, psychological, and legal services for children and parents, and lust but not least socializing activities and free time for children, facilitating communication with parents abroad.

My decision to present this program has been highly influenced by the fact that for a short period of my life I have been one of those children with their parents abroad even though I had the support of my relatives. I have many friends that grow up with their parents being abroad and I know how hard has been for them so I believe that this program is so much needed and useful.

https://youtu.be/UMTVviodN2U

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The Oslo Center-Norway (Azzurra Ceccati)

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The Oslo Center-Norway (Azzurra Ceccati)

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The Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights was established in 2006, by former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik and former member of Stortinget (the Norwegian Parliament) and Cabinet Einar Steensnæs. Their objective was to create a new platform in Norway for international peace and human rights efforts, where – together with staff members and partners – they could put to good use their experience and competence and the networks they had acquired over many years in domestic and international politics.

Since its establishment in 2006, the Oslo Center has developed into an independent, professional and politically relevant democracy assistance centre and a meeting place for experts, change agents and political actors. As the world moves towards democracy, the Oslo Center provides comparative knowledge and shared practical experiences, and creates meeting places for conflict prevention, dialogue and the strengthening of responsible leadership.

Their vision is a world consisting of stable democracies respecting equality, human dignity and human rights. Their mission is to be an independent, non-partisan democracy assistance center that assists the strengthening of democratic political institutions and processes
I find it very interesting and a little different than other kinds of things. You can see things from multiple points of view and that's a good thing

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Mother Teresa: The "Saint of the Gutters"          (By Tognon)

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Mother Teresa: The "Saint of the Gutters"          (By Tognon)

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Mother Teresa was born in 1910 in Skopje. At a young age, she felt a calling to be a nun and serve through helping the poor. At the age of 18, she was given permission to join a group of nuns in Ireland. After a few months of training she was then given permission to travel to India.

On her arrival in India, she began by working as a teacher in Calcutta; however, the widespread poverty of the city made a deep impression on her, and this led to her starting a new order called “The Missionaries of Charity”.
The primary objective of this mission was to look after people, who nobody else was prepared to look after.

She experienced two particularly traumatic periods in Calcutta. The first was the Bengal famine of 1943 and the second was the Hindu/Muslim violence in 1946, before the partition of India. In 1948, she left the convent to live full-time among the poorest of Calcutta.
She chose to wear a white Indian sari, with a blue border, out of respect for the traditional Indian dress.
For many years, Mother Teresa and a small band of fellow nuns survived on minimal income and food, often having to beg for funds. But, slowly her efforts with the poorest were noted and appreciated by the local community and Indian politicians.

In 1979, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitutes a threat to peace.” She didn’t attend the ceremonial banquet but asked that the $192,000 fund be given to the poor.

What I mostly appreciate of Mother Teresa is the attitude and the values which guide her in favour of poor and forgotten people without considering their economic condition, their religious belief and their opinions: in fact she never sought to convert those of another faith.
We can say that her actions had the only aim of helping people and doing something good for humanity.

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Mother Teresa | The "Saint of the Gutters" | #SeeHer Story | Katie Couric Media

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MALAWI, "The victory of Life"                                           (Thomas Trugli De Benedettis)   

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MALAWI, "The victory of Life"                                           (Thomas Trugli De Benedettis)   

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Malawi recently decided to abolish the death penalty that the Supreme Court had declared uncostitutional.
It is the 22nd country in sub-Saharan Africa to abolish it.
The human rights, in Malawi, weren’t respected until 1994, when the first president was democratically elected for the first time. From now on, Malawi is one of the African States that wants to fight for human rights, with all the difficulties involved. Indeed, in 2004, there were suspicious about voting procedures.  However, everything went peacefully.

Then, "Save the Children" is actually fighting for rights of children: their rights aren't still respected; the instruction is still lacking and, until 2015, the marriage before the 18 years old was still allowed.
We can see how the fight for human rights is slowly working out.
As we know, Africa is in a difficult condition, and it's for this that Amnesty International is taking action there, and this fact can be the turning point for a better future: the things you do in your own small way, can change the world, one step at a time, because all over the world is influenced by what is happening around it.

So that’s why I choose this fact, and because the Malawi, with its choice, decided to promote the most important right: The right to LIFE.

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The candle represents hope and the barbed wire represents prison. 

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL :        Fights in Sudan for the protection of human rights.                                     GIULIA CASARINI 

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL :        Fights in Sudan for the protection of human rights.                                     GIULIA CASARINI 

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Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organization committed to the defense of human rights. The purpose of Amnesty International is to promote, in an independent and impartial manner, respect for human rights enshrined in the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" and to prevent specific violations.
The organization was founded on May 28, 1961 by the English lawyer Peter Benenson, when he launched an appeal in The Observer in London entitled The Forgotten Prisoners referring to the arrest and sentencing in Portugal of two students found guilty of having toasted to the freedom of the colonies. The organization now has over seven million supporting members, who reside in more than 150 countries. Its symbol is a candle in the barbed wire.
It received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 for its activity of "defense of human dignity against torture, violence and degradation" . The following year it was awarded the United Nations Human Rights Award.The  association is active in Sudan for the protection of human rights, in particular they fight for the prohibition of female genital mutilation for many years. In May 2020 they managed to make this barbaric banned .
I chose this association because I find it very close to the ideas I support,and I believe it is very seriously involved in the protection of human rights.

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Human Rights Commission Of Sri Lanka, R. A. De Mel Mawatha, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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Human Rights Commission Of Sri Lanka, R. A. De Mel Mawatha, Colombo, Sri Lanka BY FRANCESCO SIVORI 

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Human Rights Commission Of Sri Lanka, R. A. De Mel Mawatha, Colombo, Sri Lanka BY FRANCESCO SIVORI 

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In March 2021, the UN Human Rights Council, responding to continuing abuses and the failure of accountability in Sri Lanka, mandated the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to collect and prepare evidence of grave crimes for use in future prosecutions.

Under the administration of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lankan security forces harassed and threatened human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers and the families of victims of past abuses, while suppressing peaceful protests. The government continued to target members of the Tamil and Muslim minority communities using the country’s overbroad counterterrorism law, and policies that threaten religious freedom and minority land rights.

UN Human Rights Council, adopted on March 23, strengthens the capacity of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to collect, consolidate, analyze, and preserve evidence of international crimes committed in Sri Lanka, and to develop strategies for future accountability processes. Numerous grave abuses were committed by both sides during the 26-year civil war, which ended in 2009, and by the government in its aftermath.

I chose this experience for its power and for the commitment maintained by the government after the civil war to ensure human rights.

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IFHR ( in french "fidh") was founded in 1922 and it's the second oldest international human rights organisation after "Anti-slavery International". It's a non-governmental federation for human rights organisations.
In 1922 IFHR united ten national organisations, but now it's made up of 184 members in over 100 country.
Its main services are:
-the protection of human rights defenders;
-the ensurance of effective human rights and justice for all;
- globalisation, but with the respect of human rights;
-the promotion of women's rights and protection of migrants' rights.
IFHR has its headquarters in Paris and the key person is Alice Mogwe, the president since 2019.
I've chosen this organisation because I think that the promotion and the protection of human rights are very important, especially in a period in which we can see a brutal war in Ukraine, where now human rights are not respected at all. In my opinion everyone should know this organisation because of its importance in human rights keeping.