The week’s top news stories, interviews and insight from the United Nations in a 15-minute podcast. With UN Geneva and UN News teams Available every Friday.
Latest episodes
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Haiti violence, Africa zoonotic disease spike, Aboriginal ‘cultural genocide’ cla…
In this week’s podcast, aboriginal art custodians from the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia come all the way to Geneva to tell us they’re facing cultural genocide, while in Ha…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: mass graves in Libya’s Tarhuna, Human Rights Council action on Eritrea, Myanmar a…
This week’s top stories include action at the Human Rights Council on Eritrea, Myanmar and a push for all countries to take early action to stop violence against women and girls. I…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Tigray in Human Rights Council, Afghanistan heartbreak, Ukraine aid update
It’s been an intense week of face-to-face meetings in Geneva - just like the good old days, before COVID…Among the top stories we’ve been covering, there’s been grim but important…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Tigray in Human Rights Council, Afghanistan heartbreak, Ukraine aid update
It’s been an intense week of face-to-face meetings in Geneva - just like the good old days, before COVID…Among the top stories we’ve been covering, there’s been grim but important…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Afghanistan quake, Ukraine treasures at risk
In this week’s show, the UN ramps up aid for eastern Afghanistan, where communities are reeling after its deadliest earthquake in decades. In Nigeria, the humanitarian crisis in th…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Ukraine in the Human Rights Council, albinism awareness
UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet has been particularly busy this week, as the Human Rights Council 50th session got underway in Geneva. She’s spoken about her visit to China and a…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Ukraine in the Human Rights Council, albinism awareness
UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet has been particularly busy this week, as the Human Rights Council 50th session got underway in Geneva. She’s spoken about her visit to China and a…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Heart-breaking loss in drought-hit Horn of Africa, record food price alert
Four failed rainy seasons in the Horn of Africa, are tearing families apart –we hear one veteran humanitarian’s heart-breaking testimony from a displacement camp in Somalia.Climate…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Too young to have a stroke? An activist shares his story
Having a stroke is something many of us associate with older people, but that’s not always the case, as we find out, in this week’s interview with a courageous stroke activist who’…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Too young to have a stroke? An activist shares his story
Having a stroke is something many of us associate with older people, but that’s not always the case, as we find out, in this week’s interview with a courageous stroke activist who’…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Monkeypox, sustainable solutions to cattle-rustling, Palestine refugee mental hea…
In this week’s show, monkeypox has been dominating the headlines, and we’ll have the latest from the World Health Organization. Also, the link between despair and poor mental healt…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Cameroon woman’s land rights struggle, Afghanistan, Mexico, climate crisis report
In this week’s show, ever-deepening concerns about life in Afghanistan where the national rights body is no more, while in Mexico, more than 100,000 people are now officially disap…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Malaria vaccine pilot success, Ukraine in the Human Rights Council
This week we spotlight the Human Rights Council’s special session on atrocities happening in Ukraine, post Russia’s invasion. We’ll also be heading to Afghanistan for the latest al…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Ukraine update, World Press Freedom Day and Roger Rabbit
In this week’s show, two in three children in Ukraine have now had to flee the war since the Russian invasion, UNICEF takes no pleasure in telling us, while UN humanitarians have c…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Guterres's justice call for Ukrainian horrors, Syria, Ebola and music to end chil…
In a week that’s seen the UN chief push for peace and justice in Ukraine with visits to Moscow and Kyiv, the Security Council has also been hearing that fighting in Syria is still…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Guterres's justice call for Ukrainian horrors, Syria, Ebola and music to end chil…
In a week that’s seen the UN chief push for peace and justice in Ukraine with visits to Moscow and Kyiv, the Security Council has also been hearing that fighting in Syria is still…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Inside the UN satellite centre tracking Ukraine destruction
Hello, as reports emerge that four busloads of civilians managed to leave Mariupol on Wednesday, we hear from UN humanitarians who continue to plead for safe and sustained access t…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Inside the UN satellite centre tracking Ukraine destruction
Hello, as reports emerge that four busloads of civilians managed to leave Mariupol on Wednesday, we hear from UN humanitarians who continue to plead for safe and sustained access t…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Ukraine, local solutions to the global food crisis
Seven weeks since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the global food and energy crisis that’s followed, the UN Secretary-General has explained what needs to happen to get help to the…
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Ukraine, local solutions to the global food crisis
Seven weeks since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the global food and energy crisis that’s followed, the UN Secretary-General has explained what needs to happen to get help to the…