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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Monkeypox, sustainable solutions to cattle-rustling, Palestine refugee mental health alert

UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Monkeypox, sustainable solutions to cattle-rustling, Palestine refugee mental health alert

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In this week’s show, monkeypox has been dominating the headlines, and we’ll have the latest from the World Health Organization. Also, the link between despair and poor mental health couldn’t be clearer in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the UN Relief and Works Agency tells us, while in the world of work, the ILO reckons that we’ve lost well over 112 million full-time jobs globally, since the COVID pandemic began.

There’s far more positive news from agriculture agency FAO, that’s been working with herders in Ethiopia, Kenya and beyond, to offer a brighter future than cattle raiding.

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Daniel Johnson, Solange Behoteguy Cortes - UN Geneva, FAO production team
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