Interviews

UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has seen first-hand how the ‘nexus’ of security and climate change is affecting the lives of poor women in the Lake Chad basin area who depend on fishing for their livelihoods.

Ms. Mohammed told Daniel Dickinson why despite the challenges, she sees reason to be hopeful for women’s empowerment in the region.

Lack of understanding about human trafficking in the Pacific region contributes to the crime going undetected there, according to a UN expert.

Benjamin Smith from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) told Julia Dean why better data is needed to understand how modern-day slavery impacts these island nations.

Financial rescue packages offered by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to countries facing economic meltdown, should place less emphasis on cutbacks in future in recognition that the Fund has “gone too far with austerity”, a UN Special Rapporteur has said.