Podcast Classics

Volker Türk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection visits Mahama refugee camp, in Rwanda.
UNHCR/Eugene Sibomana

Hollywood helps highlight Europe’s 20th Century refugee crisis

26 July 2017
Podcast Classics

In 1959, Hollywood stars Gregory Peck and Doris Day were at the height of their careers.

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28'7"
Dr. Raphael Lemkin, who coined the word "Genocide". The Convention on Genocide was drafted by the United Nations to prevent and punish the crime of genocide - the mass destruction of national, ethnical, racial or religious groups as such. UN File Photo

The man who defined genocide: 'The Lid is On' podcast classic

7 April 2017
Podcast Classics

Raphael Lemkin is hardly a household name these days, but back in the 1940s he became the driving force behind what would become The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the C

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15'59"