2009 - a year when arctic ice was melting faster than ever before and multiple crises - food, energy, recession or pandemic flu - called for global cooperation on an...

2008 - a year when the meltdown of the world's financial markets sent shockwaves around the globe. The United Nations faced considerable challenges during a year of new and ongoing...

Prosper Ndayizeyi spent three years as a child-soldier with a rebel group in the hills in northern Burundi. When he was released, Prosper came to this centre where child war-victims...

Barely out of childhood, Mahani Amadou got married when she was twelve years old. She became pregnant at thirteen. But Mahani is not alone. Culturally, this is normal for thousands...

In 2006, more than 1,300 cases of rape were reported in Burundi. But many more cases go unreported. Some sixty percent of all rapes are committed against minors - even...

Farmers are preparing for another summer of water rationing in Jordan, already one of the world's top 10 water-poor countries. As water shortages grow, more and more rural communities are...

The United Nations Refugee Agency estimates the global number of people displaced due to armed conflict to be over 35 million; Brazil is home for refugees from around 70 countries...

2007 - a year when the world acknowledged that climate change is manmade and poses the biggest threat to the future of our planet. The United Nations faced considerable challenges...

It has been said that information is the oxygen of democracy. Nowhere is an independent media more needed than in a place like Somalia ? which has seen over sixteen...

In Thailand, a large resettlement program is underway to resolve one of Asia?s most protracted and forgotten refugee problems. For nearly two decades, tens of thousands of Karen, an...

Host Peter Coyote interviews Sean Penn about his trip to Iraq and how it has affected him as an American citizen, as an artist, and as a father. This program...