About this podcast
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…
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Awake At Night
About this podcast
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…
Recent episodes
- There's no problem that can't be solved, with Garry Conille - UN Resident Coordinator in Kenya1 Sept · 48 min
- 'The UN is my life, my family,' with Corinne Momal-Vanian - Outgoing Executive Director of the Kofi Annan Foundation25 Aug · 40 min
- Devising an end to hunger, with Máximo Torero Cullen - Chief Economist at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)18 Aug · 39 min
- Surviving war to fight for peace, with Ozonnia Ojielo - United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ethiopia11 Aug · 41 min
- Open the strait, with Arsenio Dominguez - Secretary-General of the United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO)4 Aug · 36 min
- Use AI responsibly for a better world, with Tshilidzi Marwala - Rector, United Nations University (UNU)28 Jul · 47 min
- Why I'm still an obstinate optimist, with Allegra Baiocchi - UN Resident Coordinator in Mexico21 Jul · 40 min
- Launching a new life from a refugee camp, with Mary Maker - UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador14 Jul · 48 min
- Building the Foundations for Human Dignity, with Jorge Moreira da Silva - Executive Director of UNOPS, the United Nations Office for Project Services7 Jul · 39 min
- Overcoming trauma in the service of peace, with Elpida Rouka - Senior political affairs officer, Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria30 Jun · 40 min
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