Auschwitz

A rose placed on the railway tracks at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland.
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Societies must unite against ‘global crisis of antisemitic hatred’, Guterres urges

27 January 2020
Human Rights

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, and the six million Jews and others murdered on Nazi orders during the Holocaust, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told a ceremony in New York on Monday that the world must “re-commit to preventing any repetition of those crimes”.

Young Rohingya boys look out of their shelter at the Hakimpara refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
OCHA/Vincent Tremeau

News in Brief 23 January 2020

23 January 2020
News in Brief
  • Top UN court orders Myanmar to protect Rohingya from genocide
  • 75 years post-Auschwitz, antisemitism still threatens democracy
  • Global forestry gets a boost
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The exhibit "75 years after Auschwitz - Holocaust Education and Remembrance for Global Justice" reflects the continued importance of collective action against antisemitism and other forms of bias to ensure respect for the dignity and human rights of all people everywhere.
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Portraits show ‘dignity and humanity’ of Holocaust survivors, 75 years after Auschwitz liberation

21 January 2020
Culture and Education

Seventy-five years ago, when soldiers of the Soviet army entered the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland, they were “stunned into silence” by what they saw, UN Secretary-General António Guterres recalled on Tuesday.