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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.
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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South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Dr. Riek Machar and others meeting in Juba.

South Sudan’s peace process ‘precarious, but progress in being made’, Security Council hears

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UN chief welcomes power-sharing deal between Sudanese military and opposition

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'I approach my work with zeal'

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'This is my dream job’

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‘I am as equally well-trained as a male soldier'

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– Ms. Patricia Matola, serving in DR Congo

'Peacekeeping is rewarding’

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– Mr. Joshua Hart, serving in South Sudan