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In this week’s show, ever-deepening concerns about life in Afghanistan where the national rights body is no more, while in Mexico, more than 100,000 people are now officially disappeared. Stay with us too, if you can stand the heat, for a climate update from UN meteorologists - no spoiler alert necessary - and also for an inspiring interview with Cameroon women’s land rights activist, Cécile Ndjebet, who’s just won the Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award.


This content originally appeared on UN News and was authored by Daniel Johnson, Solange Behoteguy Cortes - UN Geneva.

Citations

[1] ➤ https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/05/comment-michelle-bachelet-un-high-commissioner-human-rights-dissolution[2] ➤ https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/05/bachelet-calls-mexico-step-efforts-tragic-milestone-reached-more-100000[3] Cameroonian activist wins Wangari Maathai Forest Champions’ Award 2022 ➤ https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/cameroonian-activist-wins-wangari-maathai-forest-champions-award-2022/en