Awake At Night
A podcast by United Nations, Melissa Fleming - Fridays
119 Episodes
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Women’s rights are human rights, with Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda - ASG and Deputy Exec. Director of UN Women
Published: 07/02/2025 -
Protecting children in crisis, with Catherine Russell - Executive Director of UNICEF
Published: 31/01/2025 -
The battle to protect children from online abuse, with Carmen Corbin - UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Published: 24/01/2025 -
How to save humanity from climate breakdown with Celeste Saulo, Secretary-General of the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Published: 17/01/2025 -
Love Is the One Thing that Solves Everything - Benjamin Perks - Head of Campaigns and Advocacy - UNICEF
Published: 20/12/2024 -
Love in the time of terrorism - Laura Dolci - Secretary of the Universal Periodic Review, Human Rights Council
Published: 18/12/2024 -
Peace is the Most Urgent Medicine - Hans Kluge - World Health Organization Regional Director for Europe
Published: 06/12/2024 -
How Much Does it Cost to Feed the World? - Arif Husain - Chief Economist, World Food Programme WFP
Published: 29/11/2024 -
Season 10
Published: 22/11/2024 -
Why Actor Edward Norton Champions Biodiversity
Published: 24/10/2024 -
I promised I will tell the story - Muhannad Hadi - UN Deputy Special Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Published: 02/08/2024 -
Keeping hope alive - Juliette Murekeyisoni - UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
Published: 26/07/2024 -
Racing to prevent famine in Gaza - Matthew Hollingworth - World Food Programme (WFP)
Published: 19/07/2024 -
To fight global hunger, farmers know best - Beth Bechdol - Deputy Director-General - UN Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Published: 03/07/2024 -
Breaking barriers to progress - Achim Steiner - Head of United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
Published: 27/06/2024 -
Human rights is our strongest tool - Volker Türk - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Published: 20/06/2024 -
Everybody has Purpose - Amy Pope - Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Published: 13/06/2024 -
A Privilege to Serve Humanity - Joyce Msuya - OCHA - Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Published: 07/06/2024 -
With AI, We’re Building the Plane Mid-Flight - Doreen Bogdan-Martin - International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Secretary-General
Published: 30/05/2024 -
Unlocking the Power of Youth - Jayathma Wickramanayake - Sr. policy advisor, UN Women
Published: 24/05/2024
What does it take to be a United Nations worker in some of the world’s most complex and dangerous places? How are UN humanitarians, human rights advocates, prosecutors, development experts, climate leaders and peacekeepers improving our world? Stationed in all reaches of the world and witness to suffering and atrocities, how are they helping people and coping themselves? To find out, Melissa Fleming meets them. Here you will discover extraordinary personal stories from people who devote their lives to helping others.
