Awake At Night

United Nations, Melissa Fleming

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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Awake At Night

Episodes (136)

Feb 3rd Why peace begins with people, not power, with Bintou Keita - Former UN Secretary-General's Special Representative DRC
Jan 27th Youth, power and possibility, with Felipe Paullier - UN Assistant Secretary-General for Youth Affairs
Jan 20th How to lead forces for peace, with Cheryl Pearce - The UN's Acting Military Adviser for Peacekeeping Operations

Awake At Night

Feb 3, 2026
46¼ minutes
64 MB

Bintou Keita knows instinctively that some moments call for a more human response than words alone can offer. Once, at a ceremony to mark the end of the devastating Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, she found herself hesitating to deliver her pre-prepared statement to a grief-stricken crowd. "I have my statement, but I can't deliver [it] because there's something else I have to do before. And in that moment, what came to me was humming, so I did it. And at that moment, the tears - my own, the tears in the audience - came out. These p...

Awake At Night

Why peace begins with people, not power, with Bintou Keita - Former UN Secretary-General's Special Representative DRC

United Nations, Melissa Fleming

00:00 -46:21