The Human Rights Committee has given top marks to five countries for their follow-up on recommendations to combat domestic and gender-based violence, prohibit torture, adopt a National Human Rights Plan, and protect people on the move.

Lual Mayen spent 22 years of his life in a refugee camp in Uganda after fleeing civil war in his home country, South Sudan. Today, he heads a company that creates video games to promote peace and a foundation to provide access to technology to those still living in refugee camps.