First Person

India begun the world's biggest COVID-19 vaccination programme in January 2021.
UNICEF/Ruhani Kaur

First Person: Panic as COVID-19 ‘tsunami’ hits India

29 April 2021
Health

A UN staff member in India has described the huge upsurge in COVID-19 infections in her country in recent days as a “tsunami”, and has spoken of the “panic” she felt, as her immediate family became infected with the virus.

Some shelters have been rebuilt in Camp 9 of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh following a fire in March.
IOM/Mashrif Abdullah Al

First Person: Rohingya refugees traumatized again, after devastating camp fire

25 April 2021
Human Rights

A Rohingya refugee and volunteer for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), has been telling UN News how his community has been “once again traumatized” as a result of a massive fire which swept through the Cox’s Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh in March, killing at least 11 people and making more than 45,000 homeless.

Climate youth activist Marie Christina Kolo of Madagascar.
© Rakotondrazafy A. M. Ny Aina

First Person: ‘Youth won’t stay silent’ says Madagascar climate activist

22 April 2021
Climate and Environment

Young people around the world “won’t stay silent” about the global climate crisis according to a youth activist from Madagascar. 

A female deminer at work in Bamyan, Afghanistan.
UNMAS

First Person: The Afghan woman putting her life at risk to rid her home of mines

4 April 2021
Peace and Security

Thanks to the bravery and hard work of deminers such as Fezeh Rezaye, the Afghan province of Bamyan has been declared free from mines. On International Mine Awareness Day, she shares her story.

Children in Eswatini play at a primary school in Lobamba region.
© UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi

First Person: A diabetes fighter in Eswatini pours all her efforts into beating COVID-19

3 April 2021
Health

Dumsile Mavuso, the founder and head of Eswatini’s first national association for people with diabetes, is now bringing her knowledge and experience to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, in collaboration with the Government and the UN.