UN Audio Library

While in affluent societies “the calorie is a nail for a coffin”, the majority has meals as “nourishing as Charlie Chaplin’s old boot”: A stirring report on the problem of mass hunger and global action to end it.

“Wires and waves” recalls the history of the International Telecommunication Union and the establishment of universal communication standards, from telegraphy equipment to outer space signals.

A programme on international cooperation in the field of health. Nations acting together for world health was a vision yet to achieve when the World Health Organization was set up in 1946.

International trade is a key factor for economic development in poorer parts of the world. To tackle mass poverty worldwide the UN works to stimulate and extend economic cooperation between nations.