Awake At Night

I Believe in Humanity


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This week's guest is Jean-Nicolas Beuze, the Representative of the UN Refugee Agency in Yemen - a country where two-thirds of the population relies on our humanitarian assistance for their daily survival. Beuze discusses the disparity between the Western world's outlook and the harsh realities most of the Yemeni people face "The Western world worries about the coronavirus. Yemen cannot even afford to worry about the coronavirus because we have malaria, chikungunya, cholera and dengue fever. All that. Plus, there is a famine.".

In a deeply personal interview about his career helping refugees and victims of torture, he describes being driven by the "denial of their human rights" and that "injustice was something I could not accept". He also reveals fearing for the first time for his own loved ones who face the dangers of COVID-19 back home.

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Awake At NightBy United Nations, Melissa Fleming

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