{"id":560846,"date":"2022-03-17T18:47:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T18:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2022\/03\/1114162"},"modified":"2022-03-17T18:47:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T18:47:12","slug":"un-catch-up-dateline-geneva-ukraines-freefall-into-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/03\/17\/un-catch-up-dateline-geneva-ukraines-freefall-into-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Ukraine\u2019s \u2018freefall into poverty\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that food grown in Ukraine feeds 400 million people around the world?<\/p>\n<p>Since Russia invaded its neighbour three weeks ago, Ukrainians need outside help to keep from going hungry, and that\u2019s where the UN World Food Programme comes in, as we\u2019ll hear.<\/p>\n<p>Away from Europe, earlier this week, we heard 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> implore donors for funds to help Yemen, where <strong>two in three people need aid\u00a0<\/strong><strong>just to survive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s been in the spotlight too, one year since Tatmadaw generals staged their coup, with chilling results, as we\u2019ll hear from UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet.<\/p>\n<p>And stay with us for comments from Solange BC, who\u2019s taking us on a literary Odyssey at the end of the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2022\/03\/1114162\">UN News<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that food grown in Ukraine feeds 400 million people around the world?<br \/>\nSince Russia invaded its neighbour three weeks ago, Ukrainians need outside help to keep from going hungry, and that\u2019s where the UN World Food Programme comes in, as we\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9856,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21526],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560846"}],"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\/9856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562302,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560846\/revisions\/562302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}