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Seminar Postcolonial Perspectives on Human Rights: Examples of Challenges and Resilience from East Africa
Africa

Second edition of the specialised seminar on Postcolonial peprspective on human rights in Africa, Human Rights Centre, 16-20 March 2026

UN peacekeepers patrol Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo after the city was overrun by rebel forces. In the foreground, military uniforms and equipment that were abandoned on the road.
© UN Photo/Aubin Mukoni
Military Expenditure

SIPRI Institute: World Military Expenditure Trends 2024

Africa

Postcolonial Perspectives on Human Rights: Examples of Challenges and Resilience from East Africa

Hands tied with a chain. Victim of trafficking.
© Global Panorama
trafficking in human beings

UNODC Global Human Trafficking Report 2024: an increase of 25% of victims

African child holds desert's sand in his hands. A village in the background.
© UNICEF/Raphael Pouget
Children

UNICEF: new report on the effects of climate change on children in Africa

UN: High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development
United Nations

UN High-Level Dialogue urges tax reforms amidst rising illicit financial flows

A group of women in Um Baru, North Darfur.
© UNAMID/Hamid Abdulsalam
United Nations

International Criminal Court: launched investigation into surging violence in Darfur

human rights

Sudan violations in spot-light at UN Human Rights Council

War/Conflict

Sudan: UN rights chief calls for a return to talks, amid fragile ceasefire

© United Nations
United Nations

United Nations: Peace in South Sudan depends on local accountability

Flags of member nations flying at United Nations Headquarters. 30/Dec/2005.
© UN Photo/Joao Araujo Pinto.
human rights

United Nations: Opening of the trial for the 2009 massacre in Guinea

The United Nations #FightRacism campaign
© United Nations
human rights

OHCHR: New #FightRacism campaign - Learn, Speak up, Act!

Migrants’ makeshift shelters in the city of Agadez.
human rights

IOM Study: Women and Girls Most Trafficked in Niger

Changing the position of women in the field of security in the Central African Republic
© MINUSCA/Hervé Serefio
women

Breaking prison barriers in the Central African Republic: changing the position of women in the field of security

Hands offering bread
women

UNDP report 2022: The war in Ukraine and the new crisis looming in Africa