Interviews

A UN-appointed probe into violence in Gaza last year in which more than 180 Palestinian protesters were killed – including 35 children - said on Thursday that there was “no justification” for Israel to shoot protesters with live ammunition.

In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, Sara Hossain, Member of the Commission of Inquiry, discusses the report’s main findings.

The slow progress of achieving gender equality in the workplace is “almost a joke,” Lise Kingo, head of the UN Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, said in an interview with UN News.

Ms. Kingo pointed to many positive moves and best practices now followed by some large corporations, but spoke frankly about the many difficulties still encountered by working women, including recent signs of a growing backlash and resistance to gender equality.

Anna Falth, who manages the Women’s Empowerment Principles, thinks 2019 be a tipping point for improving gender equality in the workplace.

The Principles are an initiative from UN Women and the UN Global Compact, to help companies stamp out sexual harassment and abuse, and improve career prospects for women.

Journalists have been covering key moments in the history of the United Nations for as long as it has existed.

On Monday, a new photography exhibition was officially opened in Geneva that celebrates their work over the last 70 years or so.

In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, Nina Larson, President of the Association of UN Correspondents in Geneva (ACANU), describes what it’s like writing the “first draft of history” day in, and day out.

Bees, soil, trees – even tiny organisms we can’t even see – all play a vital role in producing the world’s food. Yet, this biodiversity, which supports our food and agriculture systems, is under stress.

That’s according to a new report by the United Nations Food Organization (FAO), which finds that 33 per cent of fish stocks are estimated to be overfished and bee colony losses are on the rise – all factors that endanger the world’s future security.

Thousands of languages are under threat amid a lack of linguistic diversity on the internet, but technology can keep them alive, the chairperson of a leading body of humanitarian translators said on Thursday - International Mother Language Day. 

Thursday, 21 February is International Mother Language Day – a day set aside to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.

It is estimated that every two weeks a language goes extinct. But why try to protect these languages?  What is the real significance of this Day?

UN News’s Paulina Greer posed these questions to the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Ambassador Masud Bin Momen.

The nuclear arms race “is back on”, the head of the Conference on Disarmament has warned. UN News’s Daniel Johnson spoke to Michael Møller who is the Secretary-General of the Conference, the only multilateral venue for disarmament discussions.

­In the interview, Mr. Møller explains why the forum has been deadlocked for more than two decades and what this could mean for the future of the world. 

The UN’s position on climate action is clear: investing in a sustainable, low carbon future and dropping the “business-as-usual approach”, is a good bet for business and government alike, leading to trillions of dollars in economic gains, and millions of new jobs.

Rapid action is needed in every region of the world to get countries back on track in the global fight against measles, amid a projected near-doubling in the number of cases, since 2017.

That’s according to Dr Katherine O’Brien from the World Health Organization (WHO), who stressed that the existing double-dose vaccination has proved to be extremely effective – and safe - since it was introduced 50 years ago.