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'It's hard to go into a refugee camp and find people who are interested in religion or politics, but go in there, or any other disadvantaged area, and throw a ball – you don't need to encourage anyone – they will all come running. That’s the power of football,' says Rwandan Eric Murangwa Eugène MBE.

This week the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) are holding the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, highlighting the way that sexual violence and rape is used as a weapon during conflict – destroying lives and damaging communities.

Every June Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month provides a time dedicated to raising awareness of this community's past.

Hundreds of millions of people across the globe believe that the Holocaust is either a myth or has been exaggerated by historians, according to a shocking new survey from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

This Sunday – 27 April – marks Yom HaShoah, a day of commemoration for the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. You might think this sounds very similar to Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD), held on 27 January, but they are two distinct days.

David Belton worked as a producer at BBC Newsnight and was one of the first international journalists in Rwanda during the Genocide in May 1994. To mark Rwanda 20 and the launch of his book 'When the hills ask for your blood' he provides a moving reflection on Rwanda, the Genocide and the complexities surrounding post-genocide ethnicity and cultural identity.

7 April 2014 begins a 100-day period of commemoration, which marks 20 years since the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Using its two-hour span Edet Belzberg’s Watchers of the Sky tracks the movement to recognise and prosecute genocide from its beginnings in the 1920s to the modern day as the International Criminal Court (ICC) seeks the arrest of Omar al-Bashir.

International Women’s Day (IWD) is an opportunity to celebrate the courage of women who have lived through the Holocaust and genocide, many of whom share their experiences with us today.

Today the United Kingdom assumes the Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). IHRA is the organisation which evolved from the Stockholm Declaration of 2000 – the international agreement which instituted Holocaust Memorial Day across the world and committed its signatories to preserve the memory of those who were murdered in the Holocaust.