• Afghanistan emergency: Bachelet condemns floggings, violations by Taliban
• Tigray food aid needs to step up fast, warns WFP
• UNHCR reaches Eritreans stranded in Tigray camps

In this week’s show, an inspiring encounter with an ultrarunner who’s moving mountains to save the climate – or at least running up and down them; a report on rights abuses in Central African Republic during the country’s elections, latest data on global refugee resettlement numbers, a good news update on coronavirus vaccine shipments bound for Africa, and a call for accountability for the people of Lebanon.

• UN human rights chief urges accountability for Beirut blasts, one year on
• Wide impact of healthcare attacks: WHO
• UN General Assembly agrees global eye care initiative

Six months since the military coup in Myanmar, the UN and partners are doing their utmost to help protect the country’s people and show solidarity with their plight, amid mass displacement linked to deadly clashes with Government forces and the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. 

That’s the message from the organisation’s top acting humanitarian coordinator in the country, Ramanathan Balakrishnan, who’s been speaking to UN News’s Daniel Johnson.