Melissa Fleming is the United Nations' Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications as of 1 September 2019.
S1-Episode 2: I Still Can’t Believe This is Happening in My Country
"I’ve worked in worse situations, for example in Sri Lanka and in Somalia but maybe this time around because I am part of that community, it was really so difficult for me – and we’ve been trained as humanitarians to try and control your emotions so that you could be able to think clearly and be able to give support. But in this situation I actually began to doubt myself."
:: Fatima Mohammed interviewed by Melissa Fleming
S1-Episode 1: Darkness Does Weird Things to You
“[I was] handcuffed to a metallic cable that is tied to a bed so that gives me little margin of movement around the bed on one side of the bed. Enough to make four footsteps and you get used to that. It was dark. Darkness was more difficult to cope with than limited freedom of movement. Darkness is something that is oppressive.”