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Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

07 December 2023

Human Rights Day 2023

UN Human Rights is set to host several events around the world to mark Human Rights Day and Human Rights 75, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration, including a High-Level Event in Geneva, on 11-12 December.
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Still of Marcia Rigg (left) and Dayana Blanco during the Enhanced Interactive Dialogue (EID) during the 54th session of the UN Human Rights Council. © OHCHR/Pierre Albouy

30 October 2023

People of African descent

Participation is key to ending systemic racism

A youth from the Rendille ethnic group, walks through a herd of goats and sheep at a water whole near the town of Kargi, Marsabit county, Kenya. © REUTERS/Baz Ratner

26 April 2023

Economic, social and cultural rights

Supporting a human rights economy in Kenya

A worker is pictured picking tomatoes at the Frank Rudd and Sons Tomato Farm following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Knutsford, Britain, May 14, 2020. © REUTERS/Molly Darlington

06 April 2023

Economic, social and cultural rights

Building economies that place people’s human rights at the center

Diego Osorto, in front of his mural on the Lenca indigenous people, in La Esperanza, department of Intibuca, Honduras © OHCHR Honduras

28 February 2023

Human rights defenders

Against All Odds: The Making of a Lenca Youth Leader

(Young girl giving a speech) © Credit – GettyImages/Lisa5201

06 October 2022

Human rights education

Human rights education for, with and by youth

Protester holds up a placard to stand up for human rights. © Credit Getty/Vasil Dimitrov

24 August 2022

Human rights provide useful guardrails for economic policies

Art contest judge and minority artist Yuliya Lanina’s work “Gefilte Fish” addresses intergenerational trauma stemming from the Holocaust in Ukraine and examines the societal and personal silencing of truth which perpetuates the cycle of abuse.

29 March 2022

Minorities and marginalised groups

International art contest to highlight minority artists work on statelessness

11 August 2021

Student study shows human rights education helps conflict prevention

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13 April 2021

Malagasy children to receive human rights education in schools

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09 March 2021

COVID-19

Minority rights and the power of art and protest amidst the pandemic

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24 January 2021

Education

The right to education for girls in post-ISIL Iraq

Youth studying

10 July 2020

Education

Expert: COVID-19 has caused an “education crisis”

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A group of people looking at a laptop screen together

07 May 2020

COVID-19

Ensuring the right to education amidst the pandemic

Woman looking out a window

31 January 2020

Mueda Nawanat’s fight for the right to nationality

Picture of Premalatha Tamilselvan

24 January 2020

Human rights education

From student to human rights defender: the power of human rights education