As the beauty director of digital media giant BuzzFeed, Essence Gant makes sure its content is inclusive and sensitive – helping to balance representation and reflect diversity. Highlighting lack of diversity as a “direct result of the effects of slavery that we're still dealing with”, Ms. Gant told UN News's Ana Carmo what media needs to do to change the narrative.

The UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has just made an appeal for $7 million to help treat extremely vulnerable children who are suffering from the worst form of malnutrition. In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, UNICEF Spokesperson Christophe Boulierac explains how the agency provides help throughout the war-torn country – and what could happen if it doesn’t get the funding it needs.

$7 million funding appeal to help most vulnerable children in Afghanistan

UN health agency applauds Brazilian compensation bid from tobacco giants

Myanmar refugees face even greater water shortages in Bangladesh camps

DR Congo: ‘No time to lose’ says newly appointed Ebola response coordinator 

Draft El Salvador bill could give amnesty to serious human rights violators, Bachelet warns

First ever UN conference on ending sexual and gender-based violence underway

With drought in Somalia on the verge of affecting 2.2 million across the country - almost a fifth of the population - UN agencies are calling for urgent funds for critical livelihood support.   Stressing that drought is causing crops to fail and livestock to die, OCHA’s Justin Brady said that not only livelihoods were at stake, but the whole centuries-old “identity” of pastoralists in the region.

Fighting hate crimes in the courts: UN justice experts meet at Vienna conference

UK Government austerity measures have led to ‘record levels of hunger and homelessness’ : independent UN expert

Algeria and Argentina officially recognized as malaria-free

UN food agency still seeking agreement with Yemen’s Houthis to stop aid diversion

ISIL children held in ‘secret detention facilities’, UN human rights office warns

Venezuela’s masses need international protection, urges UNHCR

Italy proposal to fine migrant rescue boats condemned by human rights experts

Ebola threat still ‘very high’ in DRC, warns WHO chief

On World Bee day, human activity blamed for falling pollinator populations

What would a world without bees look like? Their absence would mean no more coffee, apples, almonds, tomatoes and cocoa, to name just a few of the crops that rely on pollination for yield and quality.  For this Target Zero Hunger podcast, Charlotta Lomas spoke to FAO’s Abram Bicksler about sustainable agriculture practices that can help protect bees.