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Sep 1, 2018
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News in Brief 22 January 2021
3:9
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Jan 22, 2021 |
Podcast: UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva - episode 6
14:23
In addition to the week’s main news headlines focusing on President Biden’s potentially massive boost to global cooperation, we’ll be hearing from Myanmar, where the UN is helping to tackle child labour. Plus, insight from guests Solange Behoteguy-Cortes and Alpha Diallo…thanks for listening! |
Jan 22, 2021 |
News in Brief 21 January 2021
2:59
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Jan 21, 2021 |
News in Brief 20 January 2021
3:29
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Jan 20, 2021 |
News in Brief 19 January 2021
3:18
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Jan 19, 2021 |
Migration chief calls for all displaced to be included in national COVID-19 vaccination plans
6:2
The head of the UN migration agency, IOM, is strongly advocating for governments everywhere to respect the “fundamental right of healthcare” when it comes to ensuring vulnerable migrants and the displaced get equal access to COVID-19 vaccines. In an interview for UN News, António Vitorino wants migrants to be included in all plans. The agency's Yasmina Guerda, began by asking the Director General to outline the overall impact of the pandemic on migrants and the displaced. |
Jan 18, 2021 |
Many Tigray refugees entering Sudan with nothing but their clothes: UNHCR
6:6
Nearly 60,000 people from Ethiopia’s volatile Tigray region have now crossed the border to remote southeastern Sudan, after more than two months of fighting, many with just the clothes on their backs. The emergency has created a massive protection challenge for the UN refugee agency in Sudan, UNHCR, which is doing everything it can to provide what they need, as spokesperson Axel Bisschop tells UN News’s Daniel Johnson. |
Jan 18, 2021 |
News in Brief 18 January 2021
2:30
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Jan 18, 2021 |
State of the Planet: Pandemic slows efforts to adapt to climate crisis
11:58
The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to hamper the efforts of developing countries to adapt to the climate crisis. This is the analysis of UN climate mitigation expert, Dr. Henry Neufeld. Dr. Neufeld warns that, whilst the pandemic should have allowed governments to invest more use of green technologies, and bounce back stronger than before, there is little evidence so far that this is happening. |
Jan 16, 2021 |
Migration will continue to rise, despite pandemic, says UN official
10:5
Migration is part of the modern world, and it is not going away despite a COVID slowdown, a UN official has told UN News. Jorge Bravo from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), explained to Conor Lennon from UN News that the longer-term trend is showing an increase in the numbers of people leaving their countries of origin to live elsewhere. |
Jan 15, 2021 |
Podcast: UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva - episode 5
15:10
This week’s show features the week’s news headlines, an interview with the World Food Programme (WFP) on the poorest of the poor in Madagascar, some of whom are eating mud and leaves to survive, and insight from regular guests from the UN Geneva team, Solange Behoteguy-Cortes and Alpha Diallo. |
Jan 15, 2021 |
News in Brief 15 January 2021
3:28
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Jan 15, 2021 |
News in Brief 14 January 2021
3:9
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Jan 14, 2021 |
World in ‘much better place’ to fight desert locust scourge – UN’s FAO
12:57
Compared to last year, everything is in place to successfully fight the devastating desert locust swarms that have been threatening food supplies and livelihoods across the Horn of Africa region, according to the senior UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) official, in charge of forecasting the pest’s movements. Charlotta Lomas spoke to Keith Cressman, who said that $80 million was still needed to control the scourge, through the coming months. |
Jan 14, 2021 |
State of the Planet: Natural ways to cope with climate change
15:8
What progress is the world making in adapting to the changing climate? And can nature itself provide the answers? This is the focus of the first episode of the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) State of the Planet podcast. Valerie Kapos, from the UNEP’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre, discusses the findings of the latest UNEP Adaptation Gap report with host Tim Albone. |
Jan 14, 2021 |
News in Brief 13 January 2021
3:23
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Jan 13, 2021 |
After drought and failed harvests, people of Madagascar reduced to eating mud
11:14
After years of drought, and with what little the people of Madagascar have managed to grow, destroyed by flashflooding, more than 1.3 million are in crisis - and some are even eating ground-up clay just to survive. In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, WFP’s regional director for southern Africa, Lola Castro, explains how the UN agency is helping by empowering communities to withstand future climate shocks |
Jan 13, 2021 |
‘Not one country has the homeworking policies we would like to see’: ILO official
11:51
Homeworking has necessarily exploded since the COVID-19 pandemic took a grip on the world, from around 260 million people in 2019, to some 580 million in 2020. A new ILO report, released on Wednesday, lays out the penalties paid by those now having to work from home, which include higher health risks, lower wages, and social isolation. Sergei Soares, a labour economist at the ILO, explained to Conor Lennon from UN News that the impetus behind the report was the fact that very few countries have ratified the ILO’s Home Work Convention. |
Jan 13, 2021 |
News in Brief 12 January 2021
3:44
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Jan 12, 2021 |
News in Brief 11 January 2021
3:25
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Jan 11, 2021 |
Podcast: UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva - Episode 4
18:57
This week’s show features the week’s news headlines, an interview on the first post-COVID global survey on people’s priorities with UN75 chief Fabrizio Hochschild, and a rendition of one of the longest words in the indigenous Aymara language from Latin America – tune in to find out more… |
Jan 08, 2021 |
News in Brief 8 January 2021
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Jan 08, 2021 |
UN post-COVID poll: 1.5 million outline their needs, hopes and fears
13:28
The world’s first global poll conducted during the COVID-19 crisis to ask people what their biggest needs, hopes and fears are, 75 years after the UN was founded, has turned up some surprising findings. One of them, perhaps, is the fact that more people in low and middle income countries, than in rich nations, called for greater global solidarity for communities badly hit by the pandemic. UN News’s Daniel Johnson, spoke to Under-Secretary-General Fabrizio Hochschild, about meeting the needs of millions in the years ahead. |
Jan 08, 2021 |
News in Brief 7 January 2021
3:23
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Jan 07, 2021 |
On EU’s doorstep, UN raises alarm for thousands of young migrants sleeping rough
10:45
Well over 2,500 migrants and refugees have been forced to sleep rough in Bosnia-Herzegovina for several weeks – on the European Union’s doorstep – despite the fact that suitable sheltered accommodation is available. In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, Peter Auweraert, chief of mission in Bosnia for the UN Migration Agency IOM, describes the difficulties of trying to find a quick solution to the urgent problem. |
Jan 06, 2021 |
News in Brief 6 January 2021
2:57
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Jan 06, 2021 |
FAO podcast – The UN’s FAO at 75: Fight to end hunger continues
17:56
In this final special 75th anniversary podcast from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Andre Vornic looks at the continuing struggle to not just keep people alive, but help them thrive through access to healthy, nutritious food, on an equitable basis. The agency in 2021 is working on finally achieving food security for all – with nutrition, diplomacy, technological advances and environmental sustainability all in play. |
Jan 06, 2021 |
News in Brief 5 January 2021
3:37
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Jan 05, 2021 |
FAO Podcast - The UN’s FAO at 75: A world of plenty?
17:15
In this second podcast from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) marking the agency’s 75th birthday, Andre Vornic tracks how FAO helped make the dream of a “world of plenty” more of a reality in the post-World War Two period, in the fight against hunger and inequality. |
Jan 04, 2021 |
News in Brief 4 January 2021
2:45
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Jan 04, 2021 |
News in Brief 30 December 2020
3:4
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Dec 30, 2020 |
News in Brief 29 December 2020
2:21
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Dec 29, 2020 |
United Nations Secretary-General's New Year's Message
1:52
United Nations Secretary-General's New Year's Message |
Dec 29, 2020 |
News in Brief 28 December 2020
2:30
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Dec 28, 2020 |
News in Brief 23 December 2020
3:21
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Dec 23, 2020 |
New Sudan government ‘acceptable to the people’ paves way for UNAMID drawdown
12:56
The Security Council on Tuesday voted to end the hybrid UN-African Union civilian support operation for Darfur, UNAMID, beginning the drawdown on 1 January. It marks the end of a force that can withdraw, knowing that government is now “in the right hands”, according to the UN Joint Special Representative, Jeremiah Mamabolo, although as he tells UN News in this exclusive interview it does not mean the UN is leaving. Mr. Mamabolo begin by telling Abdelmonem Makki of our UN News Arabic team and a Darfuri himself, what UNAMID had achieved since 2007, beyond fulfilling its core mandate of keeping civilians safe. |
Dec 22, 2020 |
News in Brief 22 December 2020
3:19
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Dec 22, 2020 |
Holding the line on free and fair elections in Central African Republic
6:37
Presidential elections are scheduled to take place in the Central African Republic this Sunday, despite violence that has threatened to disrupt the nationwide poll. In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, one of top UN officials there, Denise Brown, describes what’s at stake, in her capacity as the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and stressed that rumours of armed groups marching on the capital, were simply false. |
Dec 21, 2020 |
News in Brief 21 December 2020
3:1
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Dec 21, 2020 |
PODCAST: UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – episode 3
19:10
In this week’s show, comedian AK Dans explains how he’s on a mission to challenge stereotypes about his fellow refugees. We’ll have news headlines and insight on migration in Latin America and West and Central Africa, from regular guests Solange Behoteguy-Cortes, and Alpha Diallo, of the Information Service at UN Geneva. |
Dec 18, 2020 |
News in Brief 18 December 2020
3:21
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Dec 18, 2020 |
News in Brief 17 December 2020
2:44
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Dec 17, 2020 |
News in Brief 16 December 2020
3:35
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Dec 16, 2020 |
News in Brief 15 December 2020
3:52
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Dec 15, 2020 |
Being born a refugee’s no joke, but worse things can happen: AK Dans
10:57
Irrepressible comedian AK Dans was born in the world’s largest refugee camp, Kakuma, in Kenya, after his mother fled South Sudan in the 1990s. He’s now a successful stand-up artist – or was - until the COVID-19 crisis put a temporary halt to his live shows. But you can’t keep a good man down for long, and now AK’s latest challenge is taking part in an online show with the support of UN refugee agency, UNHCR. |
Dec 14, 2020 |
News in Brief 14 December 2020
3:41
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Dec 14, 2020 |
PODCAST: UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva - episode 2
17:11
This week’s show hears from Liz Corbin from public service broadcaster the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) she gives us all sorts of insight into the difficulties of getting “life or death” news out to people everywhere in the age of COVID. Plus, a quick round-up of the week’s other stories. |
Dec 11, 2020 |
News in Brief 11 December 2020
3:32
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Dec 11, 2020 |
News in Brief 10 December 2020
3:23
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Dec 10, 2020 |
Life or death challenges of a major TV broadcast union in the COVID era
8:12
How do you keep the cameras rolling as a member of one of the biggest TV broadcast organizations in the world, in the middle of a global health crisis? That’s been the challenge for Liz Corbin, Head of News at the European Broadcasting Union, a public service provider, whose members' programmes reach more than a billion people in dozens of countries. In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson in Geneva to coincide with the World Press Freedom Conference 2020, she explains how it became necessary to push back against efforts to politicise the pandemic, while also ensuring that “life or death” information reached all those anxiously looking for it. |
Dec 09, 2020 |
News in Brief 9 December 2020
3:24
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Dec 09, 2020 |
News in Brief 8 December 2020
3:4
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Dec 08, 2020 |
FAO Podcast: A Hungry World Rolls Up Its Sleeves
14:32
The death rate through hunger and starvation in World War Two, rivals the number of those killed in combat. By 1945, agriculture had effectively ground to a halt, leaving hundreds of millions to survive on the equivalent of two potatoes a day. It was against this desperate backdrop that the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) was born. Marking the UN agency’s 75th anniversary, FAO’s Andre Vornic has produced a short podcast series on the founding of the key UN agency. In this first episode, ‘a hungry world rolls up its sleeves’. |
Dec 08, 2020 |
NEW PODCAST: UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva
23:36
The first show spotlights the work of Radio Okapi, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the voice of UN peacekeeping mission MONUSCO in the African nation. To help understand how the radio network's tackling the problem of rumours and misinformation – and how it’s going online more and more to keep people listening - Daniel Johnson in Geneva caught up with the station’s head of Strategic Communication & Public Information, Christophe Boulierac. Plus, a look back at other stories. |
Dec 07, 2020 |
News in Brief 7 December 2020
2:51
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Dec 07, 2020 |
News in Brief 4 December 2020
3:27
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Dec 04, 2020 |
News in Brief 3 December 2020
3:4
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Dec 03, 2020 |
News in Brief 2 December 2020
3:41
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Dec 02, 2020 |
UN Secretary-General landmark speech on climate action, 2 December, 2020
3:10
UN chief António Guterres had a dire warning message for the world at Columbia University in New York on Wednesday, urging humanity to end the war against nature which has seen a collapse in biodiversity, record global warming and ocean temperature rises, and a global pandemic. But he also said there was plenty of room for hope that a new, sustainable world can emerge from the pandemic, and an international coaltion of nations commited to net neutrality, by 2050. Here's his concluding remarks as he makes climate action the UN's top priority for the 21st Century. |
Dec 02, 2020 |
UN ‘vital’ for peace and cooperation says Economic and Social Council head
8:22
In a world facing famine, major migration and conflict exacerbated by COVID-19, the UN, including its foundational body the Economic and Social Council, known as ECOSOC, is “vital” to promote global peace and cooperation. That’s according to Munir Akram, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN, who was elected ECOSOC President in July. |
Dec 01, 2020 |
News in Brief 1 December 2020
3:21
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Dec 01, 2020 |
News in Brief 30 November 2020
3:37
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Nov 30, 2020 |
News in Brief 27 November 2020
2:52
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Nov 27, 2020 |
News in Brief 26 November 2020
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Nov 26, 2020 |
News in Brief 25 November 2020
3:3
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Nov 25, 2020 |
News in Brief 24 November 2020
3:25
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Nov 24, 2020 |
News in Brief 23 November 2020
3:48
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Nov 23, 2020 |
‘Don’t let your kindness go to waste’, urges WFP
5:31
Donating goods overseas after disasters can be unhelpful and even harmful, and with the Pacific Cyclone season now in full swing, the World Food Programme (WFP) has begun a campaign urging people to donate more responsibly. Julia Dean from the UN Country Team in Australia spoke to Jo Pilgrim, Director of WFP’s Pacific Multi-Country office in Fiji, and started by asking her what the most donated items were. |
Nov 22, 2020 |
News in Brief 20 November 2020
3:
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Nov 20, 2020 |
Interview exclusive: UN Libya envoy reports on significant achievements towards peace
11:
Following a decade of political instability and conflict, Libyans are on the path to peace and the international community “needs to do its part”, which includes respecting an arms embargo, the top UN official there has said, in an exclusive interview with our UN News Arabic team. Stephanie Williams, Acting UN Special Representative, spoke to May Yaacoub about ongoing developments in Libya since the signing of a historic ceasefire agreed last month under the auspices of the UN mission in the country, UNSMIL, which she heads. |
Nov 19, 2020 |
News in Brief 19 November 2020
3:6
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Nov 19, 2020 |
Antimicrobial resistance - the next pandemic?
5:25
All around the world, people, plants and animals are dying from infections that cannot be treated – even with the best medicines available. That is because of the rise in antimicrobial resistance - the increasing failure of antibiotics and other life-saving drugs to treat diseases. It is a global problem that threatens to be the cause of the next pandemic, as the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Chief Veterinary Officer Keith Sumption explains to FAO’s Charlotta Lomas. |
Nov 18, 2020 |
Space technology: Nations of Asia-Pacific combine forces in race for the stars
10:49
The Asia-Pacific region is home to some of the most advanced space-faring nations on the planet; but at the same time, many countries there are lagging behind when it comes to developing space technology. UN News’ Vibhu Mishra spoke with Keran Wang, head of the Space Applications Section at ESCAP, for the latest on how space technology can help boost development. |
Nov 18, 2020 |
News in Brief 18 November 2020
3:9
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Nov 18, 2020 |
Preserving African burial grounds, protecting history
13:50
The Black Lives Matter movement that is sweeping the world, has its origins in the transatlantic slave trade of the 16th century, and new impetus today, to honour and preserve the resting places of those who were enslaved, and their descendants. Back in the 1990s, Peggy King Jorde was working as a designer in the New York City mayor’s office when she heard that a building slated for construction was due to be built on top of an African-American burial ground in lower Manhattan. |
Nov 17, 2020 |
News in Brief 17 November 2020
3:52
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Nov 17, 2020 |
African girls access ‘avenue to achieve aspirations and rights’: UN deputy chief
6:37
Empowering girls in Africa can put them on the fast track to achieve their aspirations and basic rights to which they’re entitled, but too often denied. That’s according to the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, who is on a two-week solidarity visit to West Africa and the Sahel to underscore the United Nations’ support for the region, during the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. |
Nov 16, 2020 |
News in Brief 16 November 2020
3:8
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Nov 16, 2020 |
Sexual abuse a problem for the whole UN system: Victim’s Rights Advocate
12:5
As the UN’s first-ever Victims’ Rights Advocate, Jane Connors has to confront an uncomfortable reality: sexual abuse and exploitation – or SEA for short - carried out by UN personnel. UN News’s Conor Lennon, spoke to Ms. Connors who said that, since then, it has become more apparent that the on-going issue of sexual abuse and exploitation goes well beyond the peacekeeping sector. |
Nov 14, 2020 |
News in Brief 13 November 2020
3:28
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Nov 13, 2020 |
News in Brief 12 November 2020
3:30
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Nov 12, 2020 |
Trauma in the Philippines as third major storm barrels through
5:23
The southeast Asian nation of the Philippines has been pummeled by the third major storm in three weeks, adding to the pain and suffering of thousands of families. Typhoon Vamco (locally known as Ulysses) made landfall on Wednesday night and although it is much weaker than Super Typhoon Goni, it brought catastrophic flooding across the capital Manila, a sprawling and densely populated city. |
Nov 12, 2020 |
News in Brief 11 November 2020
3:36
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Nov 11, 2020 |
News in Brief 10 November 2020
4:7
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Nov 10, 2020 |
New highland outposts reflect UN’s long-term commitment to Papua New Guinea
6:31
The opening of two provincial offices for UN agencies operating in Papua New Guinea, reaffirms the Organization’s commitment to sustainable peace and development. Gianluca Rampolla, the UN Resident Coordinator for the country, spoke to Julia Dean at the UN Information Centre in Australia about the new investment. |
Nov 10, 2020 |
News in Brief 9 November 2020
3:22
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Nov 09, 2020 |
News in Brief 6 November 2020
3:18
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Nov 06, 2020 |
News in Brief 5 November 2020
3:30
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Nov 05, 2020 |
News in Brief 4 November 2020
3:3
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Nov 04, 2020 |
News in Brief 3 November 2020
3:53
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Nov 03, 2020 |
News in Brief 2 November 2020
3:18
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Nov 02, 2020 |
News in Brief 30 October 2020
3:34
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Oct 30, 2020 |
UN agriculture agency calls for global response to the food security crisis
6:29
The COVID-19 pandemic could threaten food security across the entire world, if urgent action is not taken. That’s prompted the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to launch a new COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme, which aims to mitigate the immediate impacts of the pandemic while also strengthening food systems and livelihoods in the long-term. In this interview, FAO’s Charlotta Lomas speaks to the agency’s Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol, who describes what the plan entails, and why a global response is badly needed. |
Oct 29, 2020 |
News in Brief 29 October 2020
4:3
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Oct 29, 2020 |
News in Brief 28 October 2020
2:52
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Oct 28, 2020 |
News in Brief 27 October 2020
3:42
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Oct 27, 2020 |
News in Brief 26 October 2020
2:37
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Oct 26, 2020 |
UN Secretary-General's press encounter on Libya - opening remarks
3:17
UN Secretary-General's press encounter on Libya, in New York, on 23 October 2020. |
Oct 23, 2020 |
News in Brief 23 October 2020
3:10
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Oct 23, 2020 |
News in Brief 22 October 2020
2:35
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Oct 22, 2020 |