United Nations Radio

Kaing Guek Eav aka 'Duch'

Decades after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, the United Nations-assisted Tribunal for Cambodia handed down its first verdict. It found the head of the S-21 prison, where thousands of innocent inmates were held, guilty of ordering their torture and execution. UN Radio's Susan Farkas reports.

displaced people in Kyrgyzstan

A revised flash appeal for Kyrgyzstan will assist 400,000 people

OCHA, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and other organizations have launched a revised Flash Appeal for humanitarian assistance for Kyrgyzstan where violence in June erupted, affecting 400,000 people. Gerry Adams asked Gordon Denoon, Senior Humanitarian Affairs Officer with OCHA, about the latest appeal and the first appeal, which was only 30 percent funded.

glacial lakes in Bhutan

Centuries-old traditions are threatened in Bhutan

Climate change is causing the polar ice-cap to shrink, threatening small islands with extinction and devastating populations with drought. As we hear from United Nations Television, another effect of climate change, sometimes called a "tsunami from the sky", is threatening one small Himalayan country, Bhutan.

Producer: Geraldine Adams
Prod Ast: Charles Appel
Duration: 14'00"