Uniting Nations

Saffet Catovic is the Director of the United Nations Operations for Justice for All, a faith-based, human-rights organization.

Bedi Racule is a nuclear and climate justice advocate from the Pacific - hailing from the Marshall Islands and Pohnpei (Federated States of Micronesia). She began her advocacy journey with MISA4thePacific - a youth grassroots organization, sharing stories of nuclear testing in the Pacific with young people and communities around the world. Bedi currently resides in Fiji and serves

In this episode, guest Sai Bourotho with Automated Decision Research discusses Stop Killer Robots. Stop Killer Robots is a growing global coalition of more than 250 civil society organizations working together to prevent digital dehumanization, build a better society, and overcome inequalities and systems of oppression through the creation of legally binding rules on autonomy in we

In this episode we speak with Ramu Damodaran who is the first chief of the United Nations’s Academic Impact Initiative.

Ela Gandhi is the chairperson of the Gandhi Development Trust and Phoenix Settlement Trust, The Metta Center's board member, and the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi. Listen to this episode where she speaks about the significance of International Day of Nonviolence, observed on 2 October every year to commemorate the birthday of her grandfather. She also discusses the potential that

Yehuda Silverman is a "pracademic" and a Cultural Exchange Assistant of the peacebuilding network, Acquaint, “a nonprofit platform where people around the world grow and learn through human connections.” He joins Uniting Nations to speak about peacebuilding, dialogue, and his hope and idealism for the United Nations as a peacebuilding entity through his participation in some of

On today’s episode we speak with Jean Nicolas Beuze UN HRC representative in Iraq.

In this episode we speak with a retired scientist who was instrumental in the creation of the Seville Statement on Violence from 1986, which brought together scientists for UNESCO to refute the claims that underpin violence and war that we are predestined and genetically inclined toward violence and destruction as a species. David discusses this document as well as his work within

In this episode of Uniting Nations -- Gay Rosenblum-Kumar from Nonviolent Peaceforce. Nonviolent Peaceforce's mission is to protect civilians in violent conflicts through unarmed strategies, build peace side by side with local communities and advocate for the wider adoption of these approaches to safeguard human lives and dignity. Gay is the UN representative of the NP based in New

This episode of Uniting Nations features Houry Geudelekian, the Chair of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women (NGO CSW), New York. The NGO CSW is the convener of global civil society for the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and global gender equality advocacy. The UN convenes the Commission, or CSW for short, every year, for a period of two weeks. There,