Call for papers: International Human Rights Conference at University of Padua

From the Right to Self-determination to the Right to Peace: Human and Peoples’ Rights in the Collapsing Multilateral Order. Deadline: 20th September 2025

The Human Rights Centre “Antonio Papisca” and the UNESCO Chair “Human Rights, Democracy and Peace” of the of the University of Padova have launched, in tight cooperation with the UNESCO Centre (University of Graz) and other human rights institutes, a call for papers open to human rights scholars, researchers, Ph.D. students and to human rights operators and professionals with research assignments.

Find more information on participation and the proposed panel topics here.

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