INTERVIEW: How new mission could support gang-ravaged Haiti
This week, the Security Council will consider a draft resolution on a new non-UN multinational mission under the UN Charter’s Chapter VII provision allowing the use of force. “This is…
INTERVIEW: Heatwaves endanger workers and reduce productivity
Data from the UN’s World Meteorological Organization reveals this July is set to be the hottest month ever recorded. Heatwaves not only threaten the environment but create additional obstacles for…
INTERVIEW: Food systems contribute to solving ‘world’s most important challenges’
Corinna Hawkes the Director of the FAO Division of Food Systems and Food Safety says a holistic and sustainable approach is needed that considers economic, social, and environmental factors, and…
INTERVIEW: Supporting comprehensive sexuality education in Thailand
Unintended teenage pregnancies are significant among poorer parts of the north of the country, where accessibility to service and information is harder to reach than elsewhere, and there is anecdotal…
INTERVIEW: Building bridges between Afghanistan and the world because ‘isolation is not an option’
Since then, as international funding has stalled amid skepticism about the Taliban’s return, the UN has been acting as the world’s “eyes and ears” in Afghanistan. After shifting mainly to…
INTERVIEW: Policing one of the world’s ‘biggest drug trafficking corridors’
The effort is centred on the Golden Triangle, where the borders of Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos meet and from where illicit items including drugs are trafficked to lucrative markets across…
INTERVIEW: Tackling transnational trafficking in Southeast Asia from the grass roots up
The agency has been working with village security units in communities in Thailand as part of its border management programme. UNODC says that the supply of synthetic drugs through the…
INTERVIEW: ‘Extremely difficult conversations’: Seeking justice for sexual abuse victims
She shared with UN News her on-the-ground accounts of “extremely difficult conversations” with victims and their children, and how the UN is addressing issues from child support to DNA testing.…
During the interview, the Turkish President became unwell
Thanks to social media During an interview with TV channels in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had severe stomach pain, due to which he left the interview incomplete. The channel…
INTERVIEW: How hate speech triggered Rwandan genocide
“Every time I talk about it, I cry,” she told UN News, describing how propaganda spread messages of hate that sparked a deadly wave of unspeakable violence. She lost 60…