UN Radio Classics

Hans Blix, Executive Chairman of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspector Commission (UNMOVIC), addresses members of the UN Correspondents Association on the activities of weapons inspectors in Iraq.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan and other friends of Bella Abzug celebrate the life of the feisty American activist and politician for her extraordinary contribution to women’s rights.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan gives a congratulatory call to Jody Williams upon hearing that she won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work toward the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.

Chief Prosecutor Louise Arbour describes the challenges of the ICTR and ICTY, as the new institutions mete out international criminal justice for war crimes and genocide committed in Rwanda and Yugoslavia.

"We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike." American poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou recites a poem during the gathering for the United Nations Development Fund for Women's Achievement Awards.

For the United Nations' 50th birthday, Pope John Paul II praises the quest for freedom as one of the distinguished marks of the time and as a universal human right the UN has to defend.

Secretary-General Boutros Boutros Ghali gives a special toast to Nelson Mandela, newly elected president of South Africa. Mandela follows with his own toast to the UN.

Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia, discuss the friendship agreement between the two countries prior to its deterioration and the continuation of conflicts in Yugoslavia.

President Aristide shares his thoughts on the human rights situation and democracy in Haiti in 1992, after what would become the first of two coup d'états under his leadership.

An interview with Charlotte Abaka (Ghana) and Rose Ukeje (Nigeria), experts on the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, on combating violence against women within the realities of African culture