UN Interviews

<p>UN News interviews a wide range of people from senior news-making officials at Headquarters in New York, to advocates and beneficiaries from across the world who have a stake in helping the UN go about its often life-saving work in the field.</p>

Recent Episodes
  • Education and legal reform critical to address Islamophobia worldwide
    Jun 4, 2025 – 10:46
  • Flooding was ‘just the beginning’: Kakhovka dam disaster, two years on
    Jun 4, 2025 – 07:30
  • Citizen journalists are the eyes of Gaza’s people, says war reporter
    Jun 4, 2025 – 05:23
  • A sustainable future means greater collaboration between Global South nations
    May 31, 2025 – 12:19
  • Memories of childhood fuel woman peacekeeper’s drive to serve
    May 28, 2025 – 08:11
  • Award-winning gender advocate lauds importance of ‘gender-responsive peacekeeping missions’
    May 28, 2025 – 10:41
  • Gaza: ‘People feel this is the end,’ UN humanitarians warn
    May 23, 2025 – 16:43
  • Ukrainian civilians in dire need of more humanitarian support
    May 21, 2025 – 08:36
  • Global health milestone: WHO adopts landmark Pandemic Agreement
    May 20, 2025 – 10:05
  • Our Press vests are turning us into targets, warns Lebanese war reporter
    May 16, 2025 – 07:52
  • ‘Political courage’ urgently needed to address ‘killer robots’
    May 14, 2025 – 10:32
  • Healing in exile: One refugee’s mission to boost mental health
    May 9, 2025 – 07:57
  • Regulating AI to protect children online
    May 6, 2025 – 09:02
  • Independent investigators take on ‘titanic’ mission to find Syria’s missing
    May 6, 2025 – 09:25
  • Ukraine: Immunisation challenges continue amid conflict, WHO says
    May 5, 2025 – 13:24
  • ‘If you want to make your country great again, don’t retreat from the world’: UN relief chief
    May 1, 2025 – 14:48
  • Māori women and girl survivors of sexual violence face double trauma
    Apr 22, 2025 – 14:13
  • UN envoy calls for political will and unity on the road to Libya elections
    Apr 22, 2025 – 16:06
  • ‘Endemic trauma’ of Sudanese people as country marks two years of war
    Apr 19, 2025 – 05:24
  • Mine action critical to stability in Lebanon
    Apr 18, 2025 – 08:18
  • Situation in South Sudan risks escalating into civil war amid rise in misinformation
    Apr 17, 2025 – 07:18
  • UNICEF chief in Kharkiv describes the devastating aftermath of Sumy attacks
    Apr 14, 2025 – 07:01
  • Myanmar’s people still face daily aftershocks and trauma, say UN aid teams
    Apr 14, 2025 – 07:12
  • Sudan war: Crisis point for children trapped in conflict zones
    Apr 13, 2025 – 10:57
  • Sudan: 30 million in need of assistance as war rages on
    Apr 11, 2025 – 08:07
  • Sudan: Mines a major risk to civilians returning home
    Apr 11, 2025 – 13:34
  • Ending global trade uncertainty calls for ‘rational decisions’, says head of UN trade agency
    Apr 10, 2025 – 09:18
  • Sudan: Ongoing fighting ‘won’t lead anywhere’
    Apr 9, 2025 – 06:27
  • At 50, biological weapons treaty is an international success story
    Apr 5, 2025 – 08:33
  • Hospitals overwhelmed, Myanmar’s health system on the brink: WHO
    Apr 4, 2025 – 20:02
  • ‘Carnage’ must stop in Sudan, insists UN human rights office
    Apr 3, 2025 – 07:25
  • ‘Without funding we can’t meet the needs of the people of Myanmar’: WFP
    Apr 1, 2025 – 09:36
  • Art has the power to inform and preserve history: Youth Poet Laureate
    Mar 29, 2025 – 15:01
  • DR Congo: ‘Everyone has to silence the guns’: MONUSCO chief
    Mar 27, 2025 – 11:30
  • Sudan: Reproductive health agency decries devastating impact of war on women and girls
    Mar 26, 2025 – 16:59
  • ‘Reparations can’t be quantified’, says Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka
    Mar 25, 2025 – 11:28
  • Desperate Sudanese refugees arrive needing everything in Chad: UNDP
    Mar 25, 2025 – 06:33
  • ‘Silence and erasure have no place’ in a just society
    Mar 24, 2025 – 11:24
  • Rebuilding Syria: Filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab on the struggle for justice and healing
    Mar 24, 2025 – 13:47
  • ‘We have to break the cycle’: Combating child marriage in Nepal
    Mar 21, 2025 – 10:46
  • Cyclone Jude hits Mozambique causing widespread damage, deadly threat to children
    Mar 10, 2025 – 07:35
  • Lebanon: ‘No one can prepare you for the loss of a child’
    Mar 7, 2025 – 02:41
  • Ukrainian war means that for many, life begins in an air-raid shelter
    Mar 7, 2025 – 12:14
  • Syrian conflict leaves ‘devastating legacy’ of landmines
    Mar 7, 2025 – 08:06
  • ‘Let us never lose hope’: Young leaders on the frontlines of climate action
    Mar 4, 2025 – 15:09
  • Head of UN Peacekeeping: More women peacekeepers means better UN missions
    Feb 26, 2025 – 10:38
  • The situation in Gaza remains catastrophic for children: UNICEF
    Feb 14, 2025 – 07:36
  • Temporary ceasefires must become long-term, says top officer leading Middle East truce mission
    Feb 12, 2025 – 10:26
  • ‘Delivery at scale’ needed for Middle East recovery
    Feb 11, 2025 – 16:19
  • An Afghan dreamer: From robotics champion to advocate for girls’ education
    Feb 10, 2025 – 09:08
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