African Refugees Rights - ARR
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Help refugees better understand their rights and how they can find a solution.
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https://africanrefugeesrights.org/ 19-07-2021 19:26:34
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🎤 Handing the mic to Aryan Sanghrajka, a UNHCR Young Champion for Refugees and founder of Forced To Flee, at the Global #RefugeeForum .
This was one of our most popular posts from 2023. #YearInReview
Highlights from #WorldRefugeeDay from around the world 👇
2023 saw significant milestones and challenges in global public health but also immense and avoidable suffering, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
'Without peace, there is no health, and without health, there can be no peace,' the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General added.
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Amina is among 40 women who completed a literacy & economic training course provided by UNHCR & Helpcode in Palma, Mozambique. She fled insecurity in March 2021 but has since returned home.
Thank you, Population, Refugees, and Migration Bureau for supporting this project & others like it in Southern Africa.
'If we didn't have the Universal Declaration of #HumanRights , we wouldn't have this common articulation of why every human being has these fundamental rights by virtue of being human.'
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights & counter-terrorism.
#HumanRights 75
Some of our rights are worse off today than in 1948, says UN WG on discrimination against women and girls chair Dorothy Estrada Tanck.
'We see some of the most extreme forms of gender-based discrimination that did not exist in this systematised, country-wide manner as they do today in 2023'.
#HumanRights75
Freedom and racial justice can only be achieved when law enforcement officers respect the principle of equality before the law. This principle is guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
#HumanRights75
'I urged the Security Council to press to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and I reiterated my appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire.
Regrettably, the Council failed to do it. But that does not make it less necessary.
I promise: I will not give up.' — António Guterres
At #ASP22 side event on #universality hosted at KingdomNL at UN, #ICC President Judge Piotr Hofmański urged all States to join the Court. #BuildingSupport
“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” – NelsonMandela
#HumanRights75 #StandUp4HumanRights