After speaking to students at an event for The Holocaust and the UN Outreach Programme, celebrated Belgian-born Israeli cartoonist Michel Kichka sat down with Cristina Silveiro for our Lid Is On podcast to talk about the “overwhelming” and profound journey he began when he put pen to paper on a graphic novel examining the impact of his own father’s trauma surviving the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.

Music credit: Sad Moments, by Ketsa

Ukraine fighting leaves children caught in crossfire:  UNICEF

Record temperatures and storms 'happening more frequently': WMO

'Bad' fats targeted in new health global guidelines: WHO

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,  is not afraid of a fight.  As a young woman she joined the movement to protect her mountain homeland in the Philippines from major dam and logging projects.   

But now Ms. Tauli-Corpuz finds herself on the frontline of a new battle, as she told Dianne Penn in this latest episode of the UN Gender Focus podcast.

On international day, UN chief upholds ‘invaluable’ role of a free press

UN chief ‘optimistic’ over peace efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula

CAR authorities urged to investigate recent deadly violence

UN agencies appeal for global support to save lives in the Sahel

Rights experts issue call for media protection in Press Freedom Day declaration

Ninety per cent of the world breathing polluted air: WHO

Affordable vitamin A supplements could save millions of young lives: UNICEF

Pre-monsoon rains already affecting refugee children in Bangladesh: UNICEF

Hostilities in Myanmar’s Kachin State ‘wholly unacceptable’: UN rights expert

Mediterranean migrant arrivals less than half of 2017 numbers: IOM

‘No justification whatsoever’ for deadly Afghanistan blasts: UN envoy

Informal economy employs two billion: ILO report

Saint Petersburg celebrates all that jazz on International Day