Awake At Night
What does it take to be a United Nations worker in some of the world’s most complex and dangerous places? How are UN humanitarians, human rights advocates, prosecutors, development experts, climate leaders and peacekeepers improving our world?
Stationed in all reaches of the world and witness to suffering and atrocities, how are they helping people and coping themselves?
To find out, Melissa Fleming meets them.
Here you will discover extraordinary personal stories from people who devote their lives to helping others.
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Nothing keeps me awake, everything keeps me going, with Peter Hawkins - UNICEF Representative in Yemen (2025.09.05)
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- Working for peace in the DR Congo, with Vivian van de Perre - Deputy head of peacekeeping in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) 2025.08.29
- When war comes home, with Yacoub El Hillo - Regional Director for Africa at the UN Development Coordination Office 2025.08.21
- Why I’ll always champion Afghan women, with Georgette Gagnon - the UN Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan 2025.08.15
- Do not take Democracy for granted, with Nicholas Haysom - Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan and Head of UNMISS 2025.08.08
- What next for Syria’s refugees, with Gonzalo Vargas Llosa - UNHCR Representative to Syria 2025.08.01
- Season 11 2025.07.25
- Women’s rights are human rights, with Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda - ASG and Deputy Exec. Director of UN Women 2025.02.07
- Protecting children in crisis, with Catherine Russell - Executive Director of UNICEF 2025.01.31
- The battle to protect children from online abuse, with Carmen Corbin - UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2025.01.24
- How to save humanity from climate breakdown with Celeste Saulo, Secretary-General of the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) 2025.01.17
- Love Is the One Thing that Solves Everything - Benjamin Perks - Head of Campaigns and Advocacy - UNICEF 2024.12.20
- Love in the time of terrorism - Laura Dolci - Secretary of the Universal Periodic Review, Human Rights Council 2024.12.18
- Peace is the Most Urgent Medicine - Hans Kluge - World Health Organization Regional Director for Europe 2024.12.06
- How Much Does it Cost to Feed the World? - Arif Husain - Chief Economist, World Food Programme WFP 2024.11.29
- Season 10 2024.11.22
- Why Actor Edward Norton Champions Biodiversity 2024.10.25
- I promised I will tell the story - Muhannad Hadi - UN Deputy Special Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory 2024.08.02
- Keeping hope alive - Juliette Murekeyisoni - UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) 2024.07.26
- Racing to prevent famine in Gaza - Matthew Hollingworth - World Food Programme (WFP) 2024.07.19
- To fight global hunger, farmers know best - Beth Bechdol - Deputy Director-General - UN Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) 2024.07.03
