Global Dispatches Podcast

On October 14th, something very unusual happened in Thailand when a Royal Motorcade carrying the Queen brushed up against a group of pro-democracy protesters. The monarchy in Thailand has traditionally been a c...

It's the late summer and an unexplained influenza virus is killing international travelers. Researchers quickly identify the virus as a genetically engineered flu-strain. Intelligence agencies find irrefutable ...

On October 24, 1945 the San Francisco Treaty that established the United Nations entered into force. The United Nations, as we know it today, was officially born as a platform for collective security among its ...

In early October a video began to circulate on social media in Nigeria depicting a gruesome act of police brutality. The perpetrators of the police violence were from a notorious police unit called the Special ...

The constellation of UN agencies, non-governmental organizations and local  actors that respond when people's lives are upended by a natural or manmade disaster is what we refer to as the humanitarian aid secto...

The World Food Program was awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize "for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving for...

A major conflict has erupted in Nagorno-Karabakh, with some of the heaviest fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan in decades. This fighting may deteriorate into a major international crisis. Nagorno-Karabakh...

In rural Ethiopia women are more likely than men to collect firewood and cook over stoves that emit harmful smoke. Meanwhile, men are more likely than women to control how household income is spent. Accordingly...