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Refugees participating in a community dialogue forum within the Dadaab refugee-hosting area.

Human rights in humanitarian action

Peace & SecurityUN Human Rights project transforms refugee camps into communities
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Not My Words — The Actor Who Carries the Voice of Genocide

Peace & Security
Generals Opande and Agwai being honored with the Grand Commander of the Order of the Rokel.

Beyond the Battlefield: A Blueprint for Lasting Peace

Peace & Security
A woman sitting amid a crowd of people looks up to her left while holding a baby wrapped in a light-coloured blanket with a cartoon animal pattern. A woman behind her, to the right of the frame, looks off-camere and is wearing a red, white and blue patterned dress.

“I arrived with nothing but my life”

Peace & SecurityWomen in South Sudan describe harrowing escape from violence
Gorée Island a Symbol of Transatlantic Slave Trade

Gorée, between remembrance and living: a vibrant world heritage site

Peace & Security
Nigerian poet Maryam Bukar Hassan becomes the first UN Global Advocate for Peace, meeting with the UN Secretary-General.

A Poet’s Peace

Peace & SecurityNigerian artist becomes UN’s first Global Advocate for Peace.
Germaine Tuyisenge Müller, Global Health Researcher, Author, Educator and Survivor, speaks during the 31st commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda on the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda at UNHQ, in New York.

It was just words until it wasn’t: A survivor’s call to counter hate speech before it’s too late

Peace & SecurityOn the International Day for Countering Hate Speech, survivor Germaine Tuyisenge Müller reflects on how words fueled Rwanda’s darkest chapter—and why today’s growing wave of hate speech must be challenged with urgency, education, and empathy.
Panelist at the discussion on WPS

Advancing the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

Peace & SecurityGhanaian women push for an increase and strengthening of the meaningful participation of women peacekeepers as they explore the WPS agenda
A voter casts her vote.

Central Africans went to the polls

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Security Council Unanimously Adopts Resolution 1325 (2000)

How Namibia helped birth UN Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security

Peace & SecurityWomen Peace and Security

Namibia held the UN Security Council Presidency in Oct 2000 when the landmark resolution was adopted and still champions gender equality

Weapons being burnt during the official launch of the Disarmament, Demobilization, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (DDRR) process in Muramvya, Burundi.    UN Photo/Martine Perret

Silencing the guns in Africa by 2020

Peace & Security

African Union’s 2020 campaign to achieve peace and end conflict, extremism, crime

Commitment to a “zero-child army” trumps differences during Juba conference

Commitment to a “zero-child army” trumps differences during Juba conference

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