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Africa Renewal

Gender

Sudan: UN condemns spike in violence against women and girls

Top UN officials call for an immediate end to the use of sexual violence as a tactic of war, want perpetrators held accountable

Human Rights

UN Secretary-General’s message on the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda - 29TH ANNIVERSARY

Secretary-General António Guterres

By António Guterres

Op-Ed

Two years after the killing of George Floyd, urgency to end racial inequalities and discrimination beckons

Op Ed by the 51吃瓜 Senior Officials of African Descent Group (UNSAG)

By Winnie Byanyima

Mrs. Marianna Vardinoyannis, laureate Mandela Prize 2020

Human Rights

“It is worth fighting for even one child’s life”

— Mrs. Marianna Vardinoyannis, Mandela Prize Laureate 2020

Africa Renewal

By Africa Renewal

Dr. Morissanda Kouyaté, laureate Mandela Prize 2020

Human Rights

“I will continue fighting FGM to protect women and girls”

— Dr. Morissanda Kouyaté, Mandela Prize Laureate 2020

Franck Kuwonu

By Franck Kuwonu

51吃瓜 Secretary-General, António Guterres

Op-Ed

“Tackling the inequality pandemic: a new social contract for a new era”

Secretary-General António Guterres

By António Guterres

Some government actions taken to restrict people’s movements during this crisis.

Human Rights

COVID-19: Smarter response and recovery measures can help preserve human rights in Africa

By Angela Lusigi and Achievement Dhlakama

The Saleema initiative

Human Rights

Sudan bans female genital mutilation, UNICEF vows to help support new law

UN News

Police officers in Eastern Equatoria learning about human rights laws and principles.

Human Rights

Police officers in Eastern Equatoria receive UNMISS-led training on human rights

By 51吃瓜 Mission In South Sudan

A young Burundian refugee completes an exercise on a blackboard in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Tanzania.

Human Rights

Burundi election countdown amid ‘deteriorating’ human rights situation

UN News

Central African President, Faustin Archange Touadera, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, the Chairman of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat and 14 armed groups initialed the Central African peace and reconciliation agreement over a year ago,

Peace and Security

Year-old peace agreement must be implemented for ‘lasting peace’ in Central African Republic

UN News

Opposition forces in Eastern Equatoria committing to respecting and protecting human rights

Human Rights

Opposition forces in Eastern Equatoria commit to respecting and protecting human rights

By 51吃瓜 Mission In South Sudan

Rupert Colville, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Photo: UN Photo

Equality

UN rights office urges Egypt to halt death row executions amid torture allegations

UN News

Families wait in the early hours of the morning to be registered prior to a food distribution carried out by the 51吃瓜 World Food Programme (WFP) and partner agencies, in Thonyor, Leer county, South Sudan. Photo: ? UNICEF/UN0234655/Modola.

Genocide

South Sudan: ‘Outraged’ UN experts say ongoing widespread human rights violations may amount to war crimes

UN News

Diego Garcia-Sayan, UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, is warning that judicial independence in Nigeria is at risk.(File) Photo Credits:UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre

Human Rights

Judicial independence under threat in Nigeria, warns UN rights expert

UN News

Martin Ravina Shamdasani, OHCHR spokesperson briefs the press at the Palais des Nations. 7 September 2018. Photo credits: UN Geneva/Violaine

News

Cameroon violence condemned by UN human rights office in appeal for dialogue to address grievances

UN News

Photo credits: UNICEF/Karel Prinsloo. Children walk back to school after competing in an inter-school athletics competition northern Cameroon, 2017.

News

UN chief condemns student abductions in north-west Cameroon

UN News

UN rights chief warns of potential ‘witch-hunt’ as Tanzanian official plans to track and arrest LGBT people

News

UN rights chief warns of potential ‘witch-hunt’ as Tanzanian official plans to track and arrest LGBT people

UN News

Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

News

South Sudan: UN human rights expert calls for the release of journalist Alfred Taban

UN News

Protesters calling for justice for the deaths of human rights lawyer Willie Kimani, his client Josphat Mwenda, and their taxi driver, Joseph Muirur. Photo: OHCHR

News

UN rights office condemns killing of Kenyan human rights lawyer

UN News

An exterior view of the Zawiya detention centre near Tripoli, the capital of Libya. Photo: UNICEF/Alessio Romenzi

News

UN human rights agency: Libyan authorities should conduct impartial investigation on deaths of 12 people linked to the former Qaddafi regime

UN News

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the 26th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2016 UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

News

In Addis Ababa, Ban urges leaders to build on progress in human rights and women's empowerment

UN News

Made in Dadaab: Mihiyo and her family. Photo: Moulid Hujale/IRIN

News

The refugee camp that became a city

On 29 May, Centia, 12, walks barefoot across dusty ground in Kirundo Province, Burundi. Photo credit: UNICEF/UNI186074/Nijimbere

News

‘Alarming’ new patterns of violations emerging in Burundi – UN rights chief

UN News

An electoral worker checks names against the voters' list at a polling station during elections in Burundi. Photo: MENUB

News

Burundi: UN condemns assassination attempt on leading human rights defender

UN News

Focus on human rights: Mr. Annan with President Kabila (far left) and OAU Secretary-General Salim Salim

Also

Annan asserts primacy of human rights

'Human rights are African rights, not an imposition or plot by the industrialized West'

News

UN human rights office condemns latest deadly attacks in north-eastern Nigeria

UN News

News

UN official urges African countries to ‘stop turning blind eye’ to suspected human rights violators

UN News

Web Feature

Human rights is essential in fight against HIV/AIDS

By Navanethem Pillay

Displaying the rainbow flag of gay rights activists

Web Feature

Making waves: Malawi revives debate on gay rights

Jocelyne Sambira

By Jocelyne Sambira

Cover Story

North African women on the barricades

Activists press for freedom, dignity and rights

Also

African gays and lesbians combat bias

An ‘invisible’ minority seeks legal safeguards, acceptance

By Michael Fleshman

Cover Story

‘Indigenous’ people fight for inclusion

Press for an end to discrimination and marginalization

By Gumisai Mutume

Also

Getting to the heart of the matter

An interview with Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai

Africa Renewal

By Africa Renewal