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UN News interviews a wide range of people from senior news-making officials at Headquarters in New York, to advocates and beneficiaries from across the world who have a stake in helping the UN go about its often life-saving work in the field.
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This flagship podcast series from UN News takes its name from the words that correspondents at UN Headquarters in New York hear each night, at the end of the working day. We highlight the in-depth human stories behind the UN’s work and the way that it touches and impacts ordinary lives around the world.
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks to the global challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the efforts of the international community to work together effectively to face these issues.
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There’s no denying it - we have to tackle the climate emergency. Burning fossil fuels to get energy has to end. It's doable but it's going to take solutions in every industry, at every scale, in every nation in the world. No Denying It, the UN climate action podcast, brings you the voices of young climate changemakers from across our warming planet. These activists, engineers, and entrepreneurs show us how we can make big changes - in our homes, our jobs, where we vote and where we pray, and ...
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Alumni and friends of the University of Pretoria (UP) share their stories and leadership lessons on this podcast by the leading contact university in Africa. Prominent UP alumni from across disciplines – from business and law to medicine and the arts – share details about where their journey has taken them after their time at Tuks, and what they’ve learned along the way. LeadUP is a project of the Alumni Relations Office of the University of Pretoria. You can find out more about us or get in ...
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I will be 70 years old in April 2021. In 1971 at the age of 20, I left Sri Lanka on a scholarship to pursue higher studies in Germany. In 1982, after my PhD, I became a lecturer at the faculty of Mineralogy at the University of Berlin. In 1991, my wife, two children and I migrated to Perth, Australia. From 1992-1995 I was time to time engaged by United Nations and Commonwealth Secretariat as an Advisor on precious minerals and worked in Ghana, West Africa. Since 1976 I have been very intrigu ...
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Sudan war: Rights investigators demand arms embargo extension to end ‘rampant’ abusesFlooding affects more than 710,000 people in South Sudan: OCHAMiddle East crisis: top UN envoy condemns latest West Bank killings저자 Daniel Johnson, UN News
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Air pollution kills 4.5 million people a year, warns UN weather agency WMOViolence and insecurity close 14,300 schools in West and Central Africa: OCHAGaza: UNRWA reports positive start to mass polio vaccination campaign in south저자 Daniel Johnson, UN News
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AI in the workplace could be linked to shrinking pay packets: ILOGaza: Despite vaccination success, children still in front line of disease, war, says UNRWAIn Ukraine, humanitarians mobilize as Russian attacks kill and injure scores of civilians: OCHA, UNHCR저자 Shanae Harte, UN News
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First ever guidance issued on antibiotic pollution to fight rise of superbugs
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This is Daniel Johnson for UN News. Superbugs – or bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics – continue to be a major worry for the medical community and health authorities, because if they emerge and spread globally, life-saving drugs will no longer work. As part of the global effort to prevent such antimicrobial resistance, the UN World Health O…
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Venezuela: UN Human Rights office concern over ‘climate of fear’Gaza polio vaccination campaign extended by a day to meet increased demand: UN health agencyYemen: UN appeals for immediate release of staff held by de facto authorities저자 Daniel Johnson, UN News
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Gaza: anxious parents come in their thousands for polio protection for children, says UNRWA
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The fighting hasn’t stopped in Gaza but that hasn’t prevented tens of thousands of parents from making sure that their children are given the first of two polio vaccines. The UN-led initiative inoculated 15,000 youngsters in one school-turned-shelter in central Deir Al-Balah on Monday, according to Louise Wateridge, a spokesperson for the UN agency…
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Gaza polio vaccination campaign day two: thousands more children protectedA teenager in Cambodia has died from avian flu but risk of spread is low, says WHOUN agencies welcome Ecuador’s efforts to regularize Venezuelan refugees and migrants저자 UN News/ Daniel Johnson
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Libya: mass graves at Tarhuna in human rights spotlightGaza polio vaccine workers prepare to roll out campaignNeeds grow in Yemen amid catastrophic flooding, warns UNHCR저자 Daniel Johnson, UN News
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UN chief calls for immediate halt to Israeli military operation in West BankRates of unprotected sex among European teens ‘worryingly high’: WHOAfghanistan: more than six in 10 women feel unsafe leaving house alone, warns UN Women저자 Daniel Johnson, UN News
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West Bank: ‘Constant fear’ amid soaring Israeli settler violence
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The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Wednesday condemned Israel’s military escalation in the occupied West Bank, calling for attacks by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to stop, along with settler violence and the forcible transfer of Palestinians. Ajith Sunghay, Head of OHCHR in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, told UN News that as the situati…
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UN rights office condemns large-scale Israeli escalation in occupied West Bank.Viet Nam in the spotlight over alleged misuse of counter-terrorism lawAs Paralympics begin, WHO’s Tedros urges support for crucial prosthetic aides저자 Daniel Johnson, UN News
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Sudan dam burst threatens communities as far as Port Sudan, say aid teamsGaza: humanitarian aid hub faces being uprooted once again, warns OCHAAfghanistan: Taliban’s new ‘virtue and vice’ order makes situation even worse for women, says UN human rights office저자 Daniel Johnson, UN News
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Ukraine: UN top aid official condemns latest Russian attacks.Gaza: Vitally needed polio vaccines reach embattled enclave at lastMyanmar: UN and partners boost flooding response저자 Daniel Johnson, UN News
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Aid teams highlight dangers of new cholera outbreak in SudanGaza: First polio case is confirmed in war-shattered enclaveA top rights committee urges UK to do more to tackle hate speech저자 Daniel Johnson, UN News
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Lebanon: OCHA official urges more funding to meet civilian needs
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Civilians in Lebanon - particularly in the volatile south - are grappling with constant threats of violence, high levels of displacement and economic deprivation, as the standoff between Israel and Hezbollah militants continues in the shadow of the Gaza war. Fadel Saleh, from the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) in Lebanon, told UN News that tens …
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UN chief urges climate justice for Pacific nations hit by rising oceansMpox: WHO highlights ‘higher risk’ to children under fiveGaza: UN agency UNRWA mourns another deadly school strike저자 Daniel Johnson, UN News
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UN migration agency issues $18.5 million appeal to prepare for likely mpox ‘surge’In Gaza, the latest evacuation orders leave civilians dangerously close to the frontlineA week out from the Paralympics, UNESCO supports push for inclusivity저자 Daniel Johnson, UN News
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Yemen: Malnutrition expected to ‘increase significantly’ during current lean season
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Acute malnutrition is rapidly increasing among young children in Government-controlled areas in Yemen, UN agencies and partners warned in a report published this week. The ongoing conflict between Government forces, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, and Houthi rebels, is driving the surge, along with other factors such as economic collapse, displace…
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Combating mpox is a ‘litmus test for global equity’, says UN health agencyAttacks on civilians in Ukraine must stop, top UN aid official insistsGaza evacuation orders have uprooted 13,500 Palestinians: OCHA저자 Daniel Johnson, UN News
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An appeal for greater protection of aid workers on World Humanitarian DayNearly 2,000 attacks on healthcare since Ukraine war began: WHOGuterres welcomes move to reopen key border crossing for aid delivery to Sudan저자 Dianne Penn, UN News
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UN rights office calls for accountability after deadly settler violence in occupied West Bank: OHCHRIn Gaza, more evacuation orders add more pressure on those seeking shelter: UNRWA, OCHAIn Sudan, vital border crossing is set to open from Chad: WFP, WHO저자 Daniel Johnson, UN News
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Relentless rain and flooding batter desperate families in Yemen, warn UNFPA, UNICEFBahrain: prisoners’ treatment in human rights spotlightMost of the 40,000 Gazans killed in the war were women and children says UN rights chief저자 Daniel Johnson, UN News
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Gaza remains at high risk of polio virus spread, warns WHOExtreme heat increasingly disrupting children’s health: UNICEFWomen face being erased, three years since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan저자 Daniel Johnson, UN News
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Mpox still being transmitted ‘across the world’, says WHOSexual violence and famine stalk Sudan’s displaced: UNICEF, IOMMyanmar rights probe warns over ‘incredible brutality’ of warring forces저자 Daniel Johnson, UN News
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Youth unemployment rate at 15-year low, says ILOUNICEF highlights plight of children caught up in Sudan warGaza: clean water crisis adds to latest evacuation order misery, say humanitarians UNICEF, UNRWA저자 Daniel Johnson, UN News
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The power of our choices: from war-torn childhood to Nobel Peace Prize nominee
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A Ugandan man, some of whose family and friends were abducted in the East African country, tells the story of his journey from war-torn childhood to becoming the youngest ever African nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Victor Ochen grew up in northern Uganda at a time when the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, was terrorising the region with violen…
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IOM says urgent humanitarian aid is needed in the Democratic Republic of the CongoOHCHR calls for the release of peaceful post-election protesters in VenezuelaUNHCR aids flood-affected families in Sudan저자 Shanaé Harte, UN News
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UNICEF ‘using every possible means’ to get food to children facing famine in Sudan
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The recent confirmation of famine at the Zamzam camp in Sudan is “also a canary in a coal mine”, the new Representative of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in the country has warned. Sheldon Yett said the situation is an indication that “terrible things” are happening there. He also recalled that food security experts report conditions are “equally …
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UNDP and UNHCR launch joint programme to aid war-affected civilians in UkraineWHO elevates Mpox response as cases rise in the African regionWHO provides humanitarian care in Yemen following heavy rainfallWMO says extreme levels of heat continued through July저자 Shanae Harte, UN News
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