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This beat covers individual rights and inclusion for minorities, marginalized people, people with disabilities, migrants, refugees and IDPs.

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Human Rights

Investing in youth to counter hate speech

Hate speech International Day for Countering Hate Speech is marked on 18 June annually to promote dialogue and tolerance.
The cover illustration of Claver Irakoze's book, 'That Child is Me.'
Human Rights

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

Rwandan Genocide The 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.
Human Rights

We must do more to prevent genocide

Rwandan Genocide UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Ms. Alice W. Nderitu, joins Rwandans, others in commemorating 30 years since genocide against the Tutsi.
Laurence (left), a survivor, and Xavier, her family's killer, now living as friends.
Human Rights

REMEMBER.UNITE.RENEW.

Rwandan Genocide A powerful exhibit marks the 30th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

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Ernest Rwamucyo (Right), Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the United Nations
Human Rights

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.
Human Rights

The United Nations Is not leaving the Sudan

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
Alice Wairimu Nderitu

Kwibuka30: Learning from the past, safeguarding the future against genocide

Rwandan GenocideRemembering those whose futures were taken away, and those at risk across the world today
Door of no return in Ouidah, Benin.

Reflecting on the brutal Transatlantic Slave Trade

AfricaUnited Nations25 March each year is the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, a day to honor the victims of slavery and to raise awareness about the dangers of ongoing racism and prejudice.
Clementine Nkweta-Salami, United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Sudan, visits Wad Sherife camp in Kassala, the Sudan, July 2023.

The United Nations Is not leaving the Sudan

SudanHumanitarian AidWhat is the United Nations doing for the Sudanese?” This is a question I am often asked when I meet people inside and outside of the Sudan. And it is an important one.
a woman

Hate is taught: it can be fought

racismHate speechA new initiative ‘The Game Plan’ by the UN and partners will help counter Hate Speech through engagement with Sports
Afua Hirsch (Right) and Actor Samuel L Jackson

‘Enslaved’ episode blends live action and historical research

African DescentTransatlantic Trade

British writer and broadcaster Afua Hirsch helping unearth more on slave trade

Umra Omar, from the Lamu archipelago in Kenya, is the founder of Safari Doctors

Guterres: World Humanitarian Day salutes ‘the best of humanity’

Humanitarian Day
Portrait of Nelson Mandela.

'Today and every day, let us honour Nelson Mandela’s legacy by taking action'

Nelson Mandela

Message from UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Nelson Mandela International Day, 18 July 2022

Two UN officials in Somalia

Somalia: ‘Dire and grim’ drought, impacting more than 7 million

Two years after the killing of George Floyd, urgency to end racial inequalities and discrimination beckons

human rightsracism

Op Ed by the United Nations Senior Officials of African Descent Group (UNSAG)

A group of seated refugees in Ethiopia.

Eastern Africa: Millions displaced, amid growing hunger, ‘unprecedented needs’

Humanitarian Aid