• UNICEF spotlights degree of vulnerability for Syrian children living in conflict
• Governments ‘failing’ to tackle business-related rights abuses
• Stark disparity in overall prisoner health versus persons walking free, new study shows

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are facing a “toxic combination” of escalating violence, displacement, hunger, poverty and climate change, which has driven the whole central Sahel region to the “cusp of disaster”. That’s according to World Food Programme (WFP) spokesperson, Marwa Awad, who was in Burkina Faso just a few days ago, where already this year, civilian deaths are four times the level they were for the whole of 2018, and close to half a million have been displaced.

• Negotiating a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East
• Aid-dependent countries must direct national development priorities
• UN, African Union make significant joint commitment to global health

For this latest edition of our hit UN News podcast UNcomplicated, hosts Sinduja Srinivasan and Jason DeWall talk to independent UN expert on the right to privacy. Joe Cannataci, one of the world authorities on data protection and internet regulation.

He explains what our right to privacy is, and how our data is being increasingly manipulated, and monetized.