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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – Afghanistan emergency, Haiti quake solidarity

19 August 2021
UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva

In today’s show, urgent humanitarian needs in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, the devastating aftermath in quake-hit Haiti, and how the UN health agency is helping to snub out potentially deadly Marburg virus in Guinea, with insight from World Health Organization’s representative in the country Dr. Georges Ki-Zerbo.

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18'6"
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – Mental health counselling for displaced kids in Tigray

12 August 2021
UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva

In this week's show, efforts to reassure thousands of children traumatised by fighting in Tigray, Ethiopia; the UN health agency WHO announces new drug trials to fight COVID, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) investigates a potential heat spike in Sicily, and unsettling updates from Afghanistan amid the lightning Taliban advance. Plus, a sneak preview of our new UN climate action podcast, No Denying It.

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19'27"
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – Ultrarunner Fernanda Maciel talks World Humanitarian Day

5 August 2021
UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva

In this week’s show, an inspiring encounter with an ultrarunner who’s moving mountains to save the climate – or at least running up and down them; a report on rights abuses in Central African Republic during the country’s elections, latest data on global refugee resettlement numbers, a good news update on coronavirus vaccine shipments bound for Africa, and a call for accountability for the people of Lebanon.

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15'43"