New and emerging issues continue to cause vulnerability to trafficking, to facilitate it, or to complicate responses to this problem.

Genocides do not start with bullets or machetes, they begin with hate speech.

The Holocaust did not start with the gas chambers, but with hate speech. The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda began with decades of hate speech exacerbated by ethnic tensions. The Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina began with constant nationalist propaganda throughout party-controlled media channels demonizing the Bosnian Muslim population.

Brazilian activist, Valdecir  Nascimento spent her life fighting for women’s rights in her country.

“I want Black women of today to have the power and possibility to decide”, the Executive coordinator of  Odara  Institute  told  UN News during the second session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent from 30 May to 2 June 2023 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Amid the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a UN safe area was established in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1993. But in July 1995, the town was overrun by Bosnian-Serb forces and over 8,000 Bosniak boys and men were killed within a week.

In Seoul, South Korea, an art exhibition was held at the Seoul Art Center where 43 artists with developmental disabilities participated in the exhibition of over 100 different paintings.

Among them were artists Hansol Kim and Shinhey Park. We go behind-the-scenes to follow them in their daily lives and see that they are ultimately no different from the rest of humanity, and that overcoming the inequalities they face will benefit all of society.

Obstetric fistula can be prevented when there is access to quality, comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services and information. 

As the world’s preeminent international organization, the United Nations is the only institution that can connect the multiple players and partners implicated in the global tragedy of the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans.

The world’s indigenous peoples call 22 per cent of the global land surface home. They live in areas where you find about 80 per cent...

United Nations Academic Impact and the Millennium Campus Network (MCN) are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship, a semester-long leadership development program that helps students design and implement community-level initiatives to promote sustainability and help others in need.

24 January 2019 - Education transforms lives, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterressaid, recounting his personal story of teaching in the slums of Lisbon where he saw first-hand that education is an engine for poverty eradication and a force for peace.