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- COVID: end of year celebrations and ski advice from WHO
- Under 40s urged to make extra effort for vulnerable in Western Pacific
- UN Children’s Fund supports emergency food aid for hungry kids over holidays
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- Desert Locust ‘re-invasion’ threatens millions across Horn of Africa
- Independent expert decries shrinking space for China’s human rights lawyers
- Bangladesh cartoonist must be released on medical grounds, urge rights experts
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Sarah Kendzior and Andrea Chalupa are experts on authoritarian states who warned America about election hacking years before 2016. Here, they take a deep dive on the news, skipping outrage to deliver analysis, history, context, and sharp insight on global affairs.
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- Rights chief Bachelet condemns deaths of 255 people in Colombia massacres
- Four children among victims of shipwreck carrying Venezuelans to Caribbean
- UN refugee agency condemns deadly attack on Niger town
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Irrepressible comedian AK Dans was born in the world’s largest refugee camp, Kukuma, in Kenya, after his mother fled South Sudan in the 1990s.
He’s now a successful stand-up artist – or was – until the COVID-19 crisis put a temporary halt to his live shows.
But you can’t keep a good man down for long, and now AK’s latest challenge is taking part in an online show with the support of UN refugee agency, UNHCR.
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- Discrimination among reasons why migrants earn 13 per cent less than locals: ILO
- Alert for West and Central African migrant rescue as funding dries up: IOM
- Glimmer of hope for recovering Mediterranean fish stocks: FAO
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With the Senate run-off election in Georgia close at hand, Ralph speaks to political psychologist and author of “The Political Brain,” Drew Westen, about how in order to win, the Democratic candidates need to wrap their policy prescriptions in an effective emotional message.
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The post Eat the Airwaves! Podcast 12/12/20 appeared first on KODX 96.9 FM – Seattle.
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This week’s show hears from Liz Corbin from public service broadcaster the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) she gives us all sorts of insight into the difficulties of getting “life or death” news out to people everywhere in the age of COVID.
Plus, a quick round-up of the week’s other stories.
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- WFP chief laments preventable tragedy of child hunger
- $1.44 billion plan for Venezuela refugee and migrant aid response
- Rohingya island transfer untenable, says rights expert
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Democracy Now! Wednesday, December 9, 2020
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Sarah Kendzior and Andrea Chalupa are experts on authoritarian states who warned America about election hacking years before 2016. Here, they take a deep dive on the news, skipping outrage to deliver analysis, history, context, and sharp insight on global affairs.
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- Don’t let your guard down during COVID vaccine drive: WHO
- IOM business support helps vulnerable women and children
- Release Julian Assange immediately UN rights expert urges
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The death rate through hunger and starvation in World War Two, rivals the number of those killed in combat. By 1945, agriculture had effectively ground to a halt, leaving hundreds of millions to survive on the equivalent of two potatoes a day.
It was against this desperate backdrop that the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) was born. Marking the UN agency’s 75th anniversary, FAO’s Andre Vornic has produced a short podcast series on the founding of the key UN agency. In this first episode, ‘a hungry world rolls up its sleeves’.
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The first show spotlights the work of Radio Okapi, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the voice of UN peacekeeping mission MONUSCO in the African nation.
To help understand how the radio network’s tackling the problem of rumours and misinformation – and how it’s going online more and more to keep people listening – Daniel Johnson in Geneva caught up with the station’s head of Strategic Communication & Public Information, Christophe Boulierac.
Plus, a look back at other stories.
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- $2.5 billion appeal for 39 million children in Middle East and North Africa
- Self-immolation and suicide: Afghan law ‘still fails sex crime victims’
- Guterres spotlights ‘critical role’ of aviation in pandemic recovery
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- Bachelet says ‘no improvement’ in rights violations across Belarus
- UN working at ‘full speed’ to provide aid to Ethiopia’s Tigray
- New Nigeria yellow fever outbreak causes ‘many deaths’
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In a world facing famine, major migration and conflict exacerbated by COVID-19, the UN, including its foundational body the Economic and Social Council, known as ECOSOC, is “vital” to promote global peace and cooperation.
That’s according to Munir Akram, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN, who was elected ECOSOC President in July.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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- UN appeals for $35 billion to help world’s ‘most vulnerable and fragile’
- 1.3 billion children have no internet access at home
- UNHCR appeals to Ethiopia to let it reach hungry Eritrean refugees
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