In this episode of our Lid is On podcast, to mark the end of his four-year term in office on 31 August, Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, gave UN News an extensive interview, looking back over some of the most consequential moments of his time in the role.

Young women are increasingly being groomed as reluctant suicide bombers in the impoverished Lake Chad region of central Africa. In this special The Lid Is On podcast from UN News, Daniel Dickinson travelled to Chad to listen to the experience of one teenage girl who survived after being sent by Boko Haram to blow herself up at a busy weekly market.

It’s time for the United Nations to play a bigger role in disarmament, according to UN chief António Guterres, calling for concrete, practical actions to promote peaceful conflict resolution. Among those actions is to maximize the benefits of “frontier technology”. Daniel Johnson discusses the various ways that the UN is looking to incorporate such technology in its disarmament agenda.

After speaking to students at an event for The Holocaust and the UN Outreach Programme, celebrated Belgian-born Israeli cartoonist Michel Kichka sat down with Cristina Silveiro for our Lid Is On podcast to talk about the “overwhelming” and profound journey he began when he put pen to paper on a graphic novel examining the impact of his own father’s trauma surviving the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.

Music credit: Sad Moments, by Ketsa