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Navi Pillay during her tenure as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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Former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay awarded Nobel Peace Prize

human rights South African jurist and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay was on Friday announced as the winner of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Combatting racism and dismantling structural inequalities within our societies

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A UN Human Rights staff member wearing a light blue vest walks down a muddy path with his arm around a child wearing a green football jersey, while another child walks behind them in the rain.
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Strengthening child protection systems across West Africa

human rights A UN Human Rights project is working to protect children in street situations, before it’s too late.
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Progress towards dismantling racial discrimination globally: How international Human Rights law advances justice at all levels

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Mary and Melissa.
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Mary Maker | Launching a new life from a refugee camp

Ernest Rwamucyo (Right), Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the United Nations
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Lessons post the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda: we must speak out against discrimination and prejudice

Clementine Nkweta-Salami, United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Sudan, visits Wad Sherife camp in Kassala, the Sudan, July 2023.
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The United Nations Is not leaving the Sudan

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UNESCO’s work on the General History of Africa helps restore forgotten history

Social ProtectionUNESCO’s latest three volumes connect Africa’s pre-colonial civilizations, post-independence transformations, and the realities shaping Africa today
Serrakunda market, The Gambia.

Promoting inclusive food systems and gender equality in The Gambia

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WAVE-Gambia organising social cohesion dialogues with victims in Jambur Village_ West Coast Region_ The Gambia_ 2020. ©WAVE-Gambia

From stigma to strength in The Gambia

Healing the wounds of witch-hunt victims in The Gambia. For more than 40 years, the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture has been supporting survivors on their road to recovery. In The Gambia, one of the Fund’s recipients provides healing and a path to redress.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres (right) and UN General Assembly President Philémon Yang (centre) participate in the High-Level Political Dialogue on Reparatory Justice during the Africa Dialogue Series 2025 at UN Headquarters in New York.

Justice can’t wait: Africa’s push for reparative justice takes center stage

Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, stands as a powerful symbol of the transatlantic slave trade.

UN forum tackles slavery reparations for Africa, people of African descent

The calls for reparatory justice can no longer be ignored, speakers at the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent said during the forum’s fourth meeting.
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Investing in youth to counter hate speech

Hate speechInternational Day for Countering Hate Speech is marked on 18 June annually to promote dialogue and tolerance.
A sculpture of a police officer overlooks the prison that housed Nelson Mandela at Constitution Hill. Since the 1990s, the site has been the home of South Africa’s Constitutional Court and is a living museum telling the story of the country’s journey from colonialism to Apartheid to democracy.

30 years on, South Africa still dismantling racism and apartheid’s legacy

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The cover illustration of Claver Irakoze's book, 'That Child is Me.'

Claver Irakoze: Bridging Generations Through the Memory of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

Rwandan GenocideThe delicate balance of telling the next generation about a tragedy that shook the world, through the eyes of a survivor.
The United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, in Kigali.

We must do more to prevent genocide

Rwandan GenocideUN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Ms. Alice W. Nderitu, joins Rwandans, others in commemorating 30 years since genocide against the Tutsi.
Ernest Rwamucyo (Right), Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the United Nations

Lessons post the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda: we must speak out against discrimination and prejudice

Rwandan Genocide— Ambassador Ernest Rwamucyo, Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the United Nations.
Laurence (left), a survivor, and Xavier, her family's killer, now living as friends.

REMEMBER.UNITE.RENEW.

Rwandan GenocideA powerful exhibit marks the 30th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
Eric Murangwa Eugene

Football saved me from genocide; now I promote peace with it

Rwandan Genocide"From Surviving Genocide to Spreading Peace: Football's Transformative Power" -The militia who burst into my house to kill me spared my life when they saw my football photos