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International Day of Human Space Flight
The General Assembly, in its resolution A/RES/65/271 of 7 April 2011, declared 12 April as the International Day of Human Space Flight “to celebrate each year at the international level the beginning of the space era for mankind, reaffirming the important contribution...
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide
The United Nations (UN) has named April 7 as the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide. This day commemorates the deaths of 800,000 people who were murdered during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, central Africa. What Do People Do Many people around the...
Let the Devil Sleep: Rwanda 20 Years After Genocide
Let the Devil Sleep is the story of four individual's unlikely journey of confession, forgiveness and reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda. The Rwanda genocide of 1994 saw people murdered at a scale and at a speed not seen since World War...
Read more“In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda”
– Kofi Annan
In their greatest hour of need
"In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda" - Kofi Annan
Jean Paul Samputu on Music and Forgiveness | 20 Years After the Genocide
Twenty years ago, Rwandan musician Jean Paul Samputu was one of the few members of his immediate family who was not killed during the genocide. Here, he speaks with us about his journey to survive, to forgive and to begin again. Music was...
World Health Day
The World Health Day is a global health awareness day celebrated every year on 7 April, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO). In 1948, the WHO held the First World Health Assembly. The Assembly decided to celebrate 7 April of each year, with...
WHO: Healthy ageing — adding life to years
For the first time in human history, the world will soon have more older people than children. The human race is ageing and we are unprepared. Unless we change the way we think and act about ageing, we will miss the opportunity to age in...
International Day of Sport for Development and Peace
The International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP) is an annual celebration of the power of sport to drive social change, community development and to foster peace and understanding. Creating a a historical link to the first modern Olympic Games in 1896,...
King Of The Mountain
As a boy growing up, Samuel Mugisha dreamed of being a part of the Rwandan national cycling team, Team Rwanda, as he believed it would be a way to help make money for his family. What he discovered was something else entirely. In a country...
Sri Lankan Olympian on his hopes for reconciliation
Sri Lankan Olympian Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam on his hopes for reconciliation This doc short was posted on The Guardian, to mark International Day of Peace, 21 September 2013...
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