A cantata entitled “Everyone, Everywhere” weaves passages from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights together with the words of human rights luminaries such as Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Nobel Literature Laureate Wole Soyinka delivered an address in 1993 to the World Conference on Human Rights as a ‘special guest’ of the UN Secretary-General.

Writer, lecturer, political activist, and feminist organizer Gloria Steinem denounces violence against women in a speech at UN Headquarters.

Utilizing material from the UN Audiovisual Library, this production showcases a major force in the feminist movement taking her message to the global stage.

Hollywood actress Audrey Hepburn was a tireless advocate for children’s rights.

Soon after becoming a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1988, she went on a mission to Ethiopia, where years of drought and civil strife had caused terrible famine. After visiting UNICEF emergency operations, Audrey talked about the projects to media in the United States, Canada and Europe over several weeks, giving as many as 15 interviews a day.

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

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.

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...