{"id":317242,"date":"2021-09-19T03:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T03:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2021\/09\/1100202"},"modified":"2021-09-19T03:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T03:00:04","slug":"breakdown-or-breakthrough-un-chief-lays-out-stark-choices-for-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/19\/breakdown-or-breakthrough-un-chief-lays-out-stark-choices-for-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakdown or breakthrough? UN chief lays out stark choices for humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For UN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/\" title=\"Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations\" class=\"word-link\" >Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres<\/a>, this is a pivotal moment for mankind, which is on the brink of global catastrophe, but has the tools to create a fairer, cleaner world, if the political will can be found.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Mr. Guterres outlined his vision of how international cooperation needs to develop over the next 25 years, in \u201cOur Common Agenda\u201d, which lays out a pathway for a sustainable future.<\/p>\n<p>For this special episode of The Lid Is On, Assumpta Massoi from UN News sat down for an exclusive interview with the UN chief, to talk Afghanistan, gender equality, and why world leaders need to \u201cwake up, change course, and unite\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Music credit:\u00a0Music credit: Ketsa, Within the Earth<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2021\/09\/1100202\">UN News<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, this is a pivotal moment for mankind, which is on the brink of global catastrophe, but has the tools to create a fairer, cleaner world, if the political will can be found.<br \/>\nIn September, Mr. Guterres outlined h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[509],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317265,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317242\/revisions\/317265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}