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Human Rights & Inequality

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A demonstrator holds a purple piece of fabric that reads "Ni Una Menos", translating to "Not one less", at a protest as others hold various signs up around her.

Readings

What Is Gender Inequality?

A black and white image of an Armenian-American sponsored refugee camp in Aleppo, Syria, circa 1922.

Readings

What Is Genocide?

Two people hug at the site of a decimated building which was hit by a Russian missile and drone strike. Destroyed cars are on either side of the people.

Readings

What Are Human Rights?

San Francisco Pride Parade

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Marriage Equality Around the World

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Statelessness Around the World

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People and Society: Asia

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People and Society: Sub-Saharan Africa

A photo showing a Syrian refugee carrying a television as he walks at al-Zaatri refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan, on December 31, 2013.

Readings

People and Society: Middle East and North Africa

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People and Society: Europe and Eurasia

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Climate Change Inequality

Women travel in the back of a truck in the town of Mararaba, after the Nigerian military recaptured it from Boko Haram, in Adamawa state, Nigeria, on May 10, 2015.

Readings

Human Trafficking in the Global Era

A photo showing fans of Brazil cheering during a match of the Copa América soccer tournament in Córdoba, Argentina, on July 13, 2011.

Readings

People and Society: The Americas

An Indonesian UNIFIL peacekeeper waves a UN flag on the border between Lebanon and Israel in the southern Lebanese village of Adaisseh on November 30, 2009.

Timelines

The Rise and Fall of the Responsibility to Protect

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How Health Care Works Around the World