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Global State of Human Rights – Second High Level Conference, Venice

On 15 and 16 July 2022, the European Parliament and the Global Campus of Human Rights organise the second Global State of Human Rights conference in Venice-Lido (Italy), to discuss the state of human rights in the world, with a particular focus this year on children’s rights.

The hybrid event will take place at the Monastery of San Nicolò and will gather MEPs, EU Commissioners, Right Livelihood Laureates, Nobel Peace Prize Recipients, high-level representatives of international organisations, academia and children. Continue

Statistical datas show that there are an increasing number of minors giving birth because of poverty and discrimination. These are not desired pregnancies.
Denis Mukwege, Doctor, Human Rights Activist and Nobel Peace Prize, Sakharov and Right Livelihood Laureate

In the modern conflict sexual violence is used as a weapon. Young women and children are particularly targeted.
Denis Mukwege, Doctor, Human Rights Activist and Nobel Peace Prize, Sakharov and Right Livelihood Laureate

Democracies are complicated and they are not always right, let’s think about women’s deprivation of the freedom to choose on their own body in USA. But they are still the batter and more attractive system we know.
Benedetto Della Vedova, Deputy Foreign Minister of Italy

We discover that situation in special needs children institutions in Ukraine was really very bad.
Benoit Van Keirsbilck, Member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and Director of Defence for Children International

EU is strongly committed in this goal: having no child behind the bars, no child in lockdown, whatever is the offense committed.
Christina Kokkinakis, Director for Values and Multilateral Relations at the European External Action Service

Investigation on torture and treatment of Istanbul protocol it helped in many camps.
Duarte Nuno Vieira, Professor at the University of Coimbra

The mental health aspect is normally the last act of the intervention in humanitarian crisis. It’s like having an heart attack and somebody says, we will think about it later.
Essam Daod, Co-founder of Humanity Crew and Psychiatrist

Who watches the watchers? There were situations where the keepers come in terrible things and everything told me that something happened but I couldn’t prove it. We need special tools for this.
Flavia Pansieri, former UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights

Our responsibility is to avoid the forgetfulness and the discrimination between humanitarian crisis. In Poland they did a wonderful welcoming of the refugees from Ukraine, but some months ago they didn’t the same at the Belorussians borders with refugees from other countries.
Pierfrancesco Majorino, Vice-President of the Committee for Development of the European Parliament

I crossed the border in order to have a future. I didn’t know the sea because in my town there is no sea.
Ibrahima Lo, Writer from Senegal

Children displacement is rising.
Ilze Brands Kehris, UN Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights

6 hundred hospital were attacked by Russian in Ukraine. An average of children are being killed every day. 7 million people are now displaced. The strategy of forcing people to flee is working.
Lotte Leicht, Chair of the Board of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights

I suggest to try to look at the war through the eyes of the Ukrainian children. The childhood ended for this generation.
Makeiev Oleksii, Ukraine Ambassador, special envoy on sanctions

Democracies are complicated and they are not always right, let’s think about women’s deprivation of the freedom to choose on their own body in USA. But they are still the better and more attractive system we know.
Manfred Novak, Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights and Independent Expert leading the UN Global

The fight for accountability is up to us: Libya is offending every day the human and universal rights of men, women and children but we accept it. And I’m saying it knowing that we are in Italy.
Maria Arena, Chair of the Subcommittee for Human Rights of the European Parliament

Prevent, fight for their rights and answer to their needs. Children cannot wait.
Maria Soraya Rodriguez Ramos, Member of the European Parliament

Children in jihadists camps are nurtured by hate, they experience radical poverty, and they witness extreme violence every day. Acting for them is preventing consequences for us.
Nacho Sànchez Amor, Socialist Member of the European Parliament

Children partecipation is not an option, is a duty.
Najat Maalla M’Jid, UN Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence Against Children

Sharing the frame of this crisis means not to forget the role of economic injustice and environmental disaster.
Ole Von Uexküll, Executive Director of Right Livelihood

This war has forced a huge number of children to leave their country.
Roberto Netsola, President of the European Parliament

First time I was put in jail I was twenty.
Sanaa Seif, Human Rights Activist from Egypt

We work not only on an academic level but also to enhance participation of children and youth around the world.
Veronica Gomez, President of the Global Campus of Human Rights and Judge at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights