Global Dispatches Podcast

Dionne Searcey travelled to the Central African Republic to report on a story that has previously lead to the murder of foreign journalists.In July 2018 three Russian journalists were killed in the Central ...

Kurdish forces have a long history of siding with the United States. And the United States has a long history of eventually selling them out.The latest iteration of this dynamic unfolded when Donald Trump o...

The battle of Mosul began exactly three years ago this month. Iraqi government forces and allied Kurdish militias with backing from the United States and other key international partners sought to re-take Mosul...

Gulalai Ismail won't tell me how she came to New York. Doing so, she says, will put too many lives at risk.Gulalai Ismail is a longtime human rights activist in Pakistan. Her organization, Aware Girls, help...

Kumi Naidoo  is Secretary General of Amnesty International. He's a longtime activist and civil society leader who joined the anti-apartheid movement as a teenager and for many years lead Greenpeace.In Septe...

Around the United Nations you will often see CEOs of major companies participating in meetings and events around sustainability. Meaningful corporate participation is fairly commonplace at the United Nation the...

As in every year, the United Nations General Assembly is an annual opportunity for heads of state to come to the United Nations to meet each other and address the world.What distinguishes the UN General Ass...

The United Nations General Assembly, better known as UNGA, kicks in New York this week.  Hundreds of heads of state, business and civil society leaders and dignitaries of all stripes will descend on the UN for ...

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres discusses climate change in this special episode of the Global Dispatches podcast.On Tuesday, September 17th Antonio Guterres sat down with Mark Hertsgaard ...