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Human Rights

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

COVID-19: Vaccinating stateless people in South Africa

statelessness

Having no nationality of any country, this group is often left out of essential services

Migrants play a board game at IOM Transit Center in Agadez, Niger (2016).

First continental review of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration concludes in Africa

migration

Among the recommendations are protection of migrant rights, empowerment of local communities, strengthened information systems and implementation of existing policies.

Man and woman with camera.

Africa makes progress on Global Compact for Migration but more action is needed

migration

Pandemic threatens to flatten the positive trajectory against several indicators, especially decent jobs and migrants’ safety

Haben Girma, Lawyer and disability rights advocate

‘The biggest challenge is ableism, not my disability’

Equal rightsDisability

Meet lawyer Haben Girma, 33, a fierce advocate for disability rights

Ambassador Valentine Rugwabiza

Rwanda at the UN: Vaccine equity, inclusion, peace, and gender equality top our priorities

Rwandan GenocideRwanda— Ambassador Valentine Rugwabiza, Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the United Nations.
Image of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda on display in the Johannesburg Holocaust ..

Remembering the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda 27 years later

Rwandan Genocide

We need to transform history into lessons relevant to our societies today

Female frontline healthcare workers in Nigeria

Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 World

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Relocation by boat, which is the only means of transport from the Tergol/Akobo entry point...

Migration amid COVID-19: Young Africans weigh their options

Africa

New challenges and opportunities as the world marks the International Migrants Day (Dec 18).

Ms. Samuel-Olonjuwon

Protecting Africa’s children from child labour

International Labour Organization (ILO) Regional Director for Africa, Ms. Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon, on the Universal Ratification of the Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour.

Marie Roseline Darnycka Belizaire, an epidemiologist and public health specialist in Butembo.

UN salutes real-life heroes doing ‘extraordinary things, in extraordinary times’

Africa Humanitarian Day

When disasters strike, they are ‘the first to respond and the last to leave’

World Humanitarian Day 2020

World Humanitarian Day: Our Real-Life Heroes

AfricaHumanitarian Day

They are fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and helping people affected by it.

Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre

Genocide happens when democracy is absent

—Tali Nates, Founder and Executive Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre