Stories of impact

Reports from the ground, the UN, and the conversations that connect them.

UN advocacy · Featured

Generations of exclusion, one historic breakthrough

After generations of exclusion, the UN is drafting a landmark recommendation on inherited discrimination based on caste, descent, work and slavery. The world is finally listening.

Rights Experts · Nepal

Kunjini's story

She was fighting injustice before she had the words for it. Today she is a human rights lawyer turning lived experience into evidence.

Rights Experts · Niger

Yacouba's story

Activist, artist, rapper - Sage Soldat takes the fight against slavery into places policy papers never reach.

Women's leadership · Europe

Women leading a new global movement

Women from our communities are forcing the world to confront the violence and stigma too many still face - as leaders of the response, not its subjects.

UN advocacy · Africa

From invisibility to recognition in Africa

Communities recorded the discrimination themselves - until the African Commission could no longer look away. The first-ever regional resolution on CDWD.

Rights Experts · The Gambia

Ali's story

From a community looked through rather than looked at, to a voice decision-makers can no longer ignore.