Today we share the story of Hagir from Sudan, where generations of women have faced violence and persecution for challenging discrimination and demanding equal rights. Under the former regime, speaking up could come at a high cost: detention, torture, intimidation or exile. Hagir knows that price firsthand. Tortured as a child and again as a young activist, she refused to be silenced. Today, she...

The European Union hosted a side event to the Human Rights Council, on the contribution of the EU Anti-Racism Strategy 2026-2030 to the global fight against racism. The discussion brought together representatives from the European Union, the United Nations, regional organisations and EU Member States to exchange views on combating racial discrimination and advancing equality, inclusion and human...

On the margins of the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council, the EU Delegation to the United Nations and other international organisations in Geneva, together with Legal Action Worldwide (LAW), co-hosted Women on the Frontline: How Women Transform Trauma into Memory, Healing and Resistance at the Residence of the Ambassador of the European Union.

This week, 65 students from across the world gathered in Geneva for the 64th edition of the United Nations Graduate Study Programme (GSP), the UN’s longest-running educational initiative. For more than six decades, the Programme has provided young people with a unique opportunity to engage directly with the work of the United Nations and the institutions that make up International Geneva.