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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.
Human Rights

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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Human Rights

Progress towards dismantling racial discrimination globally: How international Human Rights law advances justice at all levels

Social Protection
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Human Rights

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

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

Promoting inclusive food systems and gender equality in The Gambia

Social Protection

Editor Picks

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

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

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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

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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
Young man from Comoros crossing border into Poland from Ukraine

UNHCR chief condemns ‘discrimination, violence and racism’ against some fleeing Ukraine

discriminationMigrants and Refugees
Lourena Gboeah in front of her home

Being a Black woman in the US

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Reflections of a refugee and advocate

8 year old girl in wheelchair with head of WFP Wajir Field Office and her family.

Kenya: How cash grants empower people living with disabilities

Thanks to a recently introduced law on funding for people with disabilities, the World Food Programme is working with Wajir County authorities to support people like 8-year-old Ikran

COVID-19: Vaccinating stateless people in South Africa

statelessness

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