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It's 20 years to the day since the UN Human Rights Council began its work as the world's principal forum tasked with promoting and defending fundamental rights everywhere, particularly the world's most vulnerable people.

When 19-year-old Stephane Kulimushi looks around the basketball court in Kampala where he trains young refugees, he sees more than players.

From a gold collar worn by an enslaved African to music preserved for nearly a century after the Holocaust, a staged reconstruction of a hate radio broadcast or porcelain coffee cups laid out in participatory remembrance, artists in a United Nations ...