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The UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders on the right to develop and advocate new human-rights ideas, and why defending human dignity is not reserved for people with special titles.

Muhammad Ali on service to others, and a look at what lack of access to clean cooking means for hundreds of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa.

The disability-rights principle “Nothing about us without us,” and a look at the everyday barriers facing millions of children with disabilities in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Graça Machel on our responsibility toward children affected by conflict, and a look at the surprising relationship between rising literacy rates and the number of adults still unable to read…

Maryam Bukar Hassan on choosing peace again and again, and a look at how little of Africa’s population is covered by formal social-protection benefits.