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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

Migrants from Africa and elsewhere rescued from a smuggler's boat by an Italian naval ship in the Mediterranean. Photo credit: UNHCR/A. D'Amato

Young Ghanaians risk all for "better" life

Some migrate within Africa while others take the risky route to Europe

Battling for equality on all fronts

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Some progress since Beijing, but hurdles persist

NEPAD embraces women’s rights

UN Womenequality

After slow start, continental initiative advances gender equity

‘Renewed energy for women’s empowerment’

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Interview with head of UN Women in Southern Africa

African women’s long walk to freedom

UN Womenequality

Some gains, but an uphill climb still looms