In this week’s show, aid to Afghanistan in the international spotlight, a deadly bacterial meningitis alert in northeastern DR Congo, Yemen’s “unbearable” war drags on, and alarming developments in northern Ethiopia, where the “hungry season” has started, as conflict escalates across Tigray’s borders.

In this week's show, an appeal for Afghanistan’s neighbours to keep their borders open after the Taliban takeover; an interview with a migration expert from UN Children’s Fund UNICEF, on the Afghan boys and girls risking everything to flee the country, and an alert over far-too-low COVID-19 vaccination rates across Africa.

In today’s show, urgent humanitarian needs in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, the devastating aftermath in quake-hit Haiti, and how the UN health agency is helping to snub out potentially deadly Marburg virus in Guinea, with insight from World Health Organization’s representative in the country Dr. Georges Ki-Zerbo.

In this week's show, efforts to reassure thousands of children traumatised by fighting in Tigray, Ethiopia; the UN health agency WHO announces new drug trials to fight COVID, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) investigates a potential heat spike in Sicily, and unsettling updates from Afghanistan amid the lightning Taliban advance. Plus, a sneak preview of our new UN climate action podcast, No Denying It.

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.

In this week’s show, a global deal to help get rid of plastic waste that’s been signed by 180 countries; a call for a “COVID ceasefire” in Myanmar, how more efficient food production could help solve a global hunger crisis and positive coronavirus vaccine developments in Africa.

In today’s show, solutions to child labour in Cambodia where one teenager has a dream; over in Tokyo, UN health agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wishes the Olympic Games well but reminds us COVID-19 is racing ahead, particularly in Africa; also in the news, the High Commissioner for Human Rights issues an alert about the apparently widespread use of spy software.

In this week’s show, if you’re a refugee, how do you get a COVID vaccine? We hear about the challenges and what’s being done to overcome them. Also, the UN rights chief leads a call for an end to systemic racism at the Human Rights Council, as the forum also pushes for urgent action on the worsening situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray, where humanitarians are pleading for quicker aid access. These stories and more, in this week’s UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva podcast, with Daniel Johnson, and Solange Behoteguy Cortes. Thanks for listening.

In this week’s show, the worrying rise of internet blackouts to stifle dissent and why going green is a matter of survival for small firms. Also, the pandemic’s $2.4 trillion hit to global tourism, what new migrant worker numbers tell us about the world economy - and an alert over the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. That’s all coming up in this week’s UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva.

In this week’s show: a chilling warning that climate change could cause a pandemic-scale economic shock to small businesses once a decade; we follow the fast-growing COVID-19 spike across Africa and hear welcome news about how some countries have included refugees in their pandemic vaccination programmes. We’ll also be learning about why drought “could be the next pandemic” from the UN’s top disaster risk reduction official, in this week’s interview. With your host Daniel Johnson and Solange Behoteguy-Cortes, who explains how the indigenous Aymara people came up with their own solution, to a lack of rainfall.