The three UN agencies dealing with food and development just released their flagshipState of Food Insecurity in the World 2012, which finds that nearly one in eight people around the world--or 870 million -- suffer from food insecurity.
...is Malala Yousafzai. She is a young activist in the Swat region of Pakistan who is a very vocal and public advocate for girls education. On her way to school yesterday a gunman stopped her bus and shot her in the head. She is alive, but severely wounded.
I love Unicef Television because they send film crews to far corners of the world to tell stories that are very, very far off the radar of traditional media.
As the international diplomacy surrounding a potential French-Backed, west African led military intervention in northern Mali intensifies, I caught up with reporter Peter Tinti in Mali's capital.