UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva: Ukraine crisis, disability action, COVID news

In this week’s show, inspiring messages from disability activist Irena Valarezo Cordova from Ecuador, who features in the UN Population Fund’s (UNFPA) World For One Billion exhibition.And UN humanitarians remind us of the likely heavy human cost of the Ukraine crisis in Europe, while on other continents, a new biotechnology hub to make COVID vaccines, insulin and more is announced for South Korea, as African nations take stock, one year after coronavirus vaccines starting arriving in the country via the UN-partnered COVAX initiative.