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Updated January 6, 2009, 2:56 p.m. - Some recent articles

On Congo, UN Can't Say If Nkunda's Ousted, No New Troops, from LRA, No Protection

At UN, Ban's Town Hall Has Pre-Screened Questions, on G-to-P Injustice

UN "Caught Off Guard" by Bombing of Gaza, Aware of Sewage Dangers

UN Panned, Praised by Fox and New Yorker, 24 and Harr on Chad

As Tanks Roll Into Gaza, UN Council Meets, Fireworks at Stakeout

UNder Ban, Ethics Fiefdoms, Moves to Charge Press Rent, Favoritism and Photo Ops

On Gaza, UN Envoy Has No Casualty Figures, "Not Aware," No Comment on LRA from Congo to CAR

Vietnam Outlaws News Blogs, Claims Foreign Servers Will Help, UN Security Council Review

At UN, Somalia Peacekeeping Dream Dies a Quiet Death before New Years, US Buckles

At UN's Gaza Meeting, Croatia Corrects CNN Report They Leave the Council on Jan. 1

At UN at Gaza, New Year's Eve Meeting Is Called "No Joke" by Arab League As Air Strikes Continue

UN Helps Congo Attack LRA, Can't Protect Civilians Then Disclaims Any Role, as in Kivus

On Gaza, New Year's Eve Council Meeting, Missiles and Protests on 42nd Street,  Casualty Confusion

On Gaza, UN's "62 Civilian Casualties" Misstatement Goes Global, On Wires, Wall Street and Sky News

On Gaza, Egypt Blames Blockage of Rafah Crossing on "Other Party," Strange Bedfellows Noted

UN Quietly Reports Over 100 Killed in Congo by LRA After "Well-Judged" Attack on Group

Gaza Casualties Disputed, UN Implies Killed Men Are Not Civilians, Ban Takes No Questions

As Gaza Air Strikes Continue, UN's Ban Finally Speaks to Quartet, Blair Speaks of Fatah If At All

At UN, Competing Gaza Drafts Result in Surprise Passage, Israel Dodges PGA d'Escoto, Where is Obama?

On Gaza, UN PGA d'Escoto Fires Back from Nicaragua as Council Begins Speeches

UN Council President Meets Arab League on Saturday on Gaza, Belated Response

For UN, Ban's Meeting with Israel Was "Purely a Courtesy Call" In Run-Up to Air Strikes

At UN, Nigeria Gives Myanmar $500,000, Bypassing UN Programs, Also UN-Transparent

UN Ends Year Refusing to Answer on Africa, Larsen and OIOS, Passes Buck to Others

As UN Budget's Passed, G-77's Champagne Dreams Echoed by Nicaraguan Priest, OIOS and Larsen Challenged

Final UN Budget Drafts Hit Nairobi Corruption, Reinstates Africa Advisor

UN Budget End Game Turns on Roed Larsen's Conflicts, Playing Poker with Arms Trade

UN Investigator's Work Criticized in Draft Resolution, Cronyism and Delay, Replacement Search to Begin

UN Budget Targets Africa Advisor, Oversight of Roed Larsen in Lebanon, Permanent Contract Gone

UN Budget Compromise Closes in on 92 Jobs, Arms Trade and Durban II May Trigger Vote

At UN, 10% of Ban's Budget Faces Axe, on 36% Proposed Hike, UN Has No Comment

At UN, As Some in Budget Process Try to Exclude Press, Others Leak, Christmas Eve Prediction

UN's Hiring from Permanent Five Grows, China by 8%, US by 134 Jobs, Japan Slower While Others Lose

In UN Budget Committee, Poor Versus Rich, 90 New Jobs, While Oracle Is Paid for Unused Licenses

UN Wastes $3 Million on 30,000 Oracle Licenses Left Unused, Budget Committee No Comment

At UN, Korean Staff Rise from 51 to 70 in Ban's Two Years, on Pianos and Lobbyists

At UN, Budget Committee Mulls Valencia Base, Office Rent and  Contracts

As Fowler Invited Himself to Niger, Did He Create His Own UN Mandate in Niger?

Chad's Landing Fees Ground Peacekeepers, Darfur 59% Deployment Amid Double Standards

UN Global Compact Chief Says Corporations Are Victims Too, Lashes Out at Critic

UNDP Withholds Its North Korea Plans, Stonewalls on Zim, Muzzles Kosovo, Niger Drive and Mine

Fowler's Niger Companion Guay Active in Mining, UN Stonewalls on Their Mission

At UN, Dutch Pol Verhagen Explains Aid Cut to Rwanda but not to Congo, Trusts Kabila or Structure

Suspended UN Pornographer Opposed Gays, Liked Dogs, As Higher Ups Escape

UK and UK Split on Kenya Explains UN Council Disfunction, S. Africa's Kumalo Describes

UN Envoy and UK Bless 3 Nations' Attack on LRA, All Bets Off With Kony

Missing UN Envoy Visited UN-Founded Mine in Niger, Uranium Extraction by Canadians Questioned

Condi Rice Chooses Somali Prime Minister Over Pirate President, Dodges on Eritrea

As UN's Stealth Envoy Goes Missing in Niger, Secret Process and Payments Questioned

The UN from Elite to Street, in a Party Season, Skanska Captured, Fetes Lantos

UN, With Office in Turkmenistan, Assesses One-Party Election But Won't Comment

At UN, d'Escoto Calls Quotes He Disagrees With a Crime, Israel Cancels Meeting

Amid UN's Ministerial Hype, US Praises Departing AMISOM, Sikhs Complain of France

UN Council Takes Up Vague Middle East Resolution, Tony Blair Stays Silent

ABN-AMRO and ING Are Facilitators of Congo Sanctions Violations, ICC Disclosure Not Solved

UN's Rwanda Prosecutor Says He Cleared Karenzi, Contra Navi Pillay, No News On Nepali Generals

Deaths in Congo Are Explained Away by UN, Lack of Translators and Cars Par for the Course

At UN, China Complains Its Name Was Erased, Blair By Video Only, Croatia Takes No Questions


As UN's Obasanjo's Accused of Bias, UK's Milliband Due in NY for Zim, Blair Won't Talk Until February

UN Peacekeeping Ripped by Ramsey Clark and Congo Doctor, Even HRW's Roth

Nigeria Rejects UN Involvement in Delta, Greece Likes Ban's No Comment, NY Bricks Are Thrown

At UN, Fake Out at the Stakeout, Morocco Takes the Stage Denied to Polisario Front

At UN, Global Compact's Coke and Nestle Under Fire, Advisor Barlow a Transparently Cheap Date

As Greece Burns in Police Shooting's Wake, UN's Ban Has No Comment, and Letters Not Received

At UN, Ms. Albright Talks Genocide While Dodging on Rwanda Votes of 1994

UN's Pillay Says While Few States Discipline Abusive UN Troops, They Are Needed

UN was "Disrespectful" In Approach to Aung San Suu Kyi, NLD Leader Says

Swept Under the TARP, Grabs by GMAC, PHH and CIT, Wachovia's Sewers

Questions About Jamaat ud Dawa and UN's Pakistan Aid in Mumbai's Wake

Behind Myanmar's Bluster, Gas Deals for Daewoo, China and India, UN's Ban No Comments

When UN Loses Money to Dictators, It Resists Disclosure, Unlike Even Corporations

UN in Congo, Genocidaires Into Moral Vacuum, Zero Follow-Through on Sexual Abuse Charges

UN Mine Action Calls Chechnya a Country, Uses Troubled UNOPS, Downplays Ossetia Cluster Bombs

UN Amid Backsliding Heads to Poznan, WMO in Chaos, UN Safety Saga Goes Without Update

With UN Justice Delayed, Ban Blames Member States, Rushes Ad on Intra-Net, Leaves No Remedy

As Libyan Ship Blocked by Israel, Echoes of France and Myanmar, Free Gaza and Somali Toxic Waste

ICC's Moreno Ocampo Learned Nothing from Lubanga Case, Laughs at Retaliation Finding

In UN's Silent CAR Alarm, Impunity for Assassinations, Civilians Still Unprotected

Who Investigates UN Investigator Ahlenius is Raised by Unsigned Letter Which Ban Dismisses

At UN, Pride like Mugabe May Exclude Kofi Annan, Blair Resists Agenda, France Protects Its Turf

UN Piracy Resolution Dodges Toxic Waste and Sinking of Wrong Ship, Somali TFG's Sphere to Shrink

Citi Sleaze with Bail-Out, of Junkets and Spanish Highways, PNC and Ocwen Need Hearings

At UN, Re-Sale of AIDS Drugs and Zimbabwe Diversions Downplayed, As Ban Met Mugabe

As UN Pleads in Doha, For Money and with Mugabe, Who Will Bail Out UN's $12 B Pension Loss?

As UNICEF Drugs Resold in Sierra Leone and Holiday Cards Misrun, UN's Ban Is Silent

At UN, Corruption Within Investigative Unit Is Alleged, Unit's Chief Ms. Ahlenius Declines All Comment

In Doha, UN's Ban Praises Turner While Zoellick Is Absent, UNDP Elusive

Amid Congolese Chaos, NGOs Are Split on Nkunda, FDLR and Camouflage for UN Mission

UN Accepted Mugabe's Exchange Rate in Zimbabwe, Refuses to Disclose Losses As In Myanmar


UN Council Fails to Act on India Shooting Spree, Waiting for Word, Going on Vacation (updated)

UN Silent on Cypriot Tensions, What a Downer, UNIFEM Forgets FYROM

While UN Says Kosovo Trust Agency Budget Is Not Public, UK Calls for Transparency

With Afghan Rifts of UN and Australia, Karzai and Obama, Mullah Omar Returns

Snubs by Bush and World Bank Recounted on UN's Road to Doha by Miguel d'Escoto

UN Denounces Gender Violence But Takes No Questions or Actions on Peacekeeper Abuse

As Cyprus and Greece Protest Turkey, Where Is UN's Downer, Ban's Envoys Strangely Upbeat

As UNDP's Dervis Dodges on Dome-Gate, Will Doha Be a Dud?

Stealth Chinese Resource Deals Link UN's Obasanjo to Congo and Kabila, Conflict of Interest Alleged

With Subprime Citigroup at Trough, What Would Rubin's Geithner Do?

UN Dodges Africa, Funding and Justice Questions, Ready on Israel, Weak Week

On Kosovo, EU's Solana Urges Ban to End Delay, Greece about the River, Pirates Press Ahead

Satiric Film About UN Triggers Question, Who Let Its Makers In?

In Congo, 3000 Troops But UN Still in White Fortresses, France - Rwanda Rift Downplayed

At UN, Justice System Faces Year-End Collapse as JDC Chairman Now Resigns

At UN, Costa Rican Openness Founders on W. Sahara, FOIA Leaves Swiss Dubious

On Climate, UN Lobbies Itself, On Migration It Tells the Poor to Go Home

UN Talks Child Soldiers But Lets Recruiters Off, On Manipur a Slow Start

UK May Hold Pirates Without Legal Authority, UK Guantanamo Bay Alleged, UN Silent

At UN, Ban's Justice Delayed May be Justice Denied, Ms. Migiro's Ruling May Predict the Future

Costa Rica on Arms and Openness At War With UN's Secrecy Culture, What Is It Good For?

UN Leaves Civilians Outside Congo Bases, Peacekeepers are Absent, Kerim Is In Kinshasa

At UN, Georgia Denies Ukrainian Backing, Longs for NATO and Dismisses Hanging Threats

As Spain Uses Int'l Cooperation Funds for Dome, UN Denies, Ban Ignores

Bolivian President and Nicaraguan Priest Slam Catholic Hierarchy, French Copters Not in Darfur

On Congo, Obasanjo Is Optimistic, Theron on Abuse by UN Peacekeepers, General Wants Camouflage

UN Denies Development Aid Used for $25 M Ceiling, "Voluntarily Funded" Disaster Post Left Murky

As UN Policeman Stabs Liberian Counterpart, No Justice in Monrovia, No Comment in NY

In London, Lord Levene Continues in Myanmar with Lloyds and Total, UN Stands Pat

As Spain Uses Aid Funds For Stalactite Ceiling at UN, Ban's Travels Seen from LA and Europe

On Congo, UN's Troop Count Is 1500 Off as London Calling Different on Others' 3000

UN's Larsen Refuses Ban-Requested Financial Disclosure As Conflict Questions Raised on "Peace" Event and Lebanon

In UN's Culture of Peace, Pomp and Sleaze Compete With Middle East Politics

At UN, Amid Congo Castration and UN Buckpassing, UK Denies Dithering

UN Peacekeepers Can't Contrain Congo Army Abuses, NGOs Split on Speaking with Nkunda

UN's D'Escoto Favors Banning Defamation of Religion, But Hasn't Seen the Resolution

At UN, Team Ban's Culture of Secrecy, Exclusion and Amnesia, Hiding in Plain Sight

In Nepal, UN Is Counting Guns But Not Controlling, Terai Cries  Misunderstood

In Ban's UN, Pomp and Secrecy on Congo, Asia and Quartet, Closed Meeting

After Haitian Collapse, UN Uses Batons But No Building Codes, School Chief Said Arrested

In the Congo, Angolan Troops or Angola-Trained, Lost in Translation With the UN

UN In Denial as Congolese Army Works With Paramilitaries, Angolans, Let Them Eat Soap

In Liberia, UN Staffer Jailed for Child Support, Immunity Would Have Applied Like More Serious Abusers

At UN, Russia Wins Budget Seat Over Georgia, as Cuba Bangs on Missing Tables

UN Assembly President Lashes Out on W. Sahara, Obama Diplomacy,  Oil Sands Viewed by Expert

At UN, Briefing Bans Myanmar, Somalia and Nkunda Talks, Mandate Unclear

At UN, Election of ICJ Judges Is Archaic, Somali and French Electioneering

Ban's UN Tries to Outsource Kosovo Questions, Partial Answers Don't Assure a Second Term

At UN, Ban's Call for Staff Reform Seen as Slashing Benefits as US Mission Wants

On Obama vs. Osama, UN's Ban Says Bombs Away, Second Term in Mind, Some Opine

At UN, Racism Expert Omits Myanmar like NGOs from Durban II

At UN, Lame Duck Labor Moves by US, Georgian War on Budget, Chinese ID Follies

In UN Council, Myanmar and Mugabe in Footnotes, Demand for Tony Blair, Kosovo Wide Open

Voting in the South Bronx, Names Not on Lists, Few Choices on Paper Ballots

In Congo, UN Spins Amid Hutu Rebels and Kabila's Friends, Denies Retreating and Abuse

Cash Hard to Come by in Gaza, Development Scarce as Tony Blair Wears Too Many Hats, UNRWA Head Says

As Arms Trade Treaty Opposed by Zim and USA, Ukraine Denies Shipping Tanks to S. Sudan

At UN, Stiglitz Slams Chase For Misuse of Bailout, Federal Reserve for Predatory Lending

As Congolese Army Loots and Flees, UN Patrols Goma But Says It's Not Responsible

Congo Chafes at UN Council Statement's FDLR Reference, Diaz Puts Valencia Base in Play?

At UN on Congo, Francophonie Claims, Talk of Using Entebbe, Nkunda Outside Goma

Despite Condi Rice Memo, UN's Nimetz Claims to Act Alone, Name Issue Arms Congo

Human Rights Brought Low in UN Basement, North Korea Fight Back, Crack Down on the Press  (updated)

In Congo, UN's Doss Calls for the Return of Artemis, As Nkunda Draws Closer

In Famine Wars at UN, Russia Charges Bias by Secretariat, d'Escoto's Different Tale

UN Security In Chaos, Henn Leaves A Former Pension Cashier in Charge as Car and C.V. Questions Mount

UN Dodges Its Own Bullets in Congo, Its Aid in Somalia, Haiti and Budget Cuts, Who's FYROM?

UN Expert Says Biofuels Are Like Blood Diamonds, Myanmar and Forced Labor, Antitrust is Needed

UN's Habitat Engages with Angola Despite Evictions, UNICEF Irregularities and in Nairobi

At UN, Chomsky and Ramsey Clark, Socialists and Socialites, Advise Nicaraguan Assembly President, Kennedy Expenses?

As UN Denies Pakistan Snub, Ex-Envoy Akram Joins Houston Oil Co., Kerim for FYROM President?

UN's Ban Confirms Two Percent Cuts, Developing Countries Say Slush Fund Is Theirs

UN Advised to Screen Peacekeepers for Torture, Laxity on Myanmar Allows Evictions, Nukes

As Georgia Tries Abkhaz Blockade, UN Calls It a Sovereign Right, EULEX Goes American

At UN, Caribbean Lobbying, Banning of Questions, UNEP and Nairobi Financial Irregularities

Foundations at the UN, Exclusion, Favoritism and Lack of Transparency in Security

UN Human Rights Envoys Strain to Praise Myanmar and North Korea, Callibrated Capitulation?

UN Expert Says UK Misused Anti-Terrorism Law Against Iceland, Another Questioned Angola

UNDP's Dervis Admits Paying Saakashvili Unwise, Dodges on Congo Security and Kosovo Fees

US Bailout Will Subsidize Bank Monopolies, Chase and Goldman, Excluding CRA and Public Review

With Indian Copters in Burma and Congo, Tanks for S. Sudan, Arms Trade Treaty Called For

At UN, Buck Passing on Privacy Breach, Dodging on Budget Cuts, Ahlenius in Hiding on Lockheed


At UN, W. Sahara Resolution Approved, Exploitative Fishing Continues, Pascoe's Murky Trip

At UN, Unanswered Questions on Sudan, Kosovo and Kenya, Russia on McCain, Chinese Feasts


Sovereignty Disputed In UN Colonial Committee, UK Amends "Trojan Horse" Supported by Spain and Chile

UN Admits Error in Publishing Staff's Signatures and ID Numbers, No Accountability Yet

At UN, Musing of One-Term Ban by Obama and Russia, Ramos-Horta in the Wings

On Sudan and ICC, Uganda Likes Deferral, Austria and Mexico Want Justice, Iceland Denounces UK

At UN Council Vote, Icelandic Handshakes But Austria and Turkey Said to Have EU Juice

UN Affairs Plagued by Questions of Cost, Waste and Lack of Accountability, States Say

At UN, Russia and Georgia Spar Again on Child Rights, Genocide and Cover-Up Charged

EU's Double Game with Turkey, Austria's Unstated Right Wing Appeal, in UN Council Elections

At UN, Saudi Denies Shipping Arms to Somalia, Sudan Makes Nice with Ethiopia

On Georgia, UN Calls Russian Walk-Out "Procedural," Dodges on Press Restrictions, Passes Buck

UN Labor Strife Puts Privacy and Safety at Risk, Online ID Card Numbers and Signatures Published

FDIC Joins in Bail-Out, Shields Its Conference Calls and Wachovia Deal

At UN, Forced Happy Talk on Afghanistan, Two Officials Still Excluded, Not P.C. to Raise

As Iceland Seeks UN Council Seat on Installment Plan, Sachs Pans US and Eliasson Lobbies

In UN Affairs, Iraqi Envoy on Comedy Central, Abkhaz in the Closet, More Congo Photos

As Congo Shows Photos, France Again Takes Sides and UN Follows Suit, Diplomats Say

Manipur Conflict in India on UN's Margins Despite Child Soldiers, Impunity and Press Restrictions

In Post-Hurricane Haiti, UN Peace Team Works on Prisons from Hotel, UNDP Takes Fees

UN Orders Budget Cuts as Wall Street Meltdown Creeps North, Iceland and Pledges In Doubt

UN's Road to Accountability Is Murky and Long But Reporters Are Invited by Management's Kane

No Abkhaz in UN, No Georgia in Text, Russia Pans Ban for NATO Deal


UN Report on Algiers Bombing Is Withheld, Role of UNDP In Lower Defenses Too


As Serbia Wins UN Vote, Montenegro Mysteries, UNDP and Napalm, Kosovo Trust Agency

At UN, Serbian Vote, FYROM-ic Name Game, Iceland's Meltdown and Austria's Rightward Drift

UNDP's Evacuation of Jordan Building Confirmed by UN, Unexplained by UNDP

As UN's Ban Tries to Lead Reform, 36 Officials and 172 Staff Say No , Mobility Stalled

UN W. Sahara Day Two, Of Elliot Abrams and Malawi For Sale, Fishing Off Somalia

UN Ranges from Shanghai Expo to Literacy Lunch, UNESCO's Friendly Face

With UN Report on Algiers Bombing Late, UNDP Out of Jordan, Reports Say, N. Korean Kudos

At UN's Decolonialization Meeting, Restrictions on Some Press, Western Sahara Stand-Off

Mass Evictions Ignored by UN in World Habitat Day in Angola, As Arms Trial Begins

Citi - Wells, Collusion of Monopolists Even In Crisis, Wachovia Carve-Up?

At UN, Democracy Does Not Mean Openness, Nicaraguan Priest Preaches Family, Staff Picnic

UN in the Congo, Burning and Looting and Failing to Follow Through, Dodging on Evidence

In Wachovia War, Wells Fargo Would Require Public Notice and Comment, No Emergency

UN and Microsoft, Conflicts of Interest and Increased Non-Reporting, Tech Help

As UN Excludes the Press, Cuba Complains of VP's Treatment to Committee on U.S. Relations

As Iran's Mottaki Speaks, Protest Pens Are Empty, Journalists Are Searched

With US AfriCom in Stuttgart, Tanks for Sudan Hijacked Off Somalia, UN Not Involved

Myanmar For-Ex Losses Hit 25%, Nobel Winner Quotes ASEAN as Admitting, DPKO's Numbers

At UN, France's Ripert Chided by Sarkozy on Serbia Resolution, of Belgian Banks

At UN, Ban Is Called "Not Invisible" By His Aides, Myanmar Silence Unexplained

Russia's Lavrov Criticized UNDP for "Privatized" Payments to Saakashvili for Soros

Citigroup - Wachovia Approved by Fed and Bush, Public and CRA Excluded, Laws Repealed?

Subprime Stoked By Deregulation and Bipartisan Greed, not CRA,  Community Reinvestment Act

At UN, North Korea Charges Sex Slavery By Japan, Sarah Palin's Pass

Cyprus Will Vote For Serbia's Kosovo Resolution, France Still Silent on EU Position

On Myanmar, UN's Ban Says He Can't Speak, Press Must Fight for Access Even to Ministers

Aso of Japan Spends 10 Hours at UN, Carrots for Myanmar, Silence on UNIC Finances

At UN, Tony Blair Scoffs At His $1 Million JPMorgan Job, But Conflict of Interest Safeguards

As Chad Recruits Child Soldiers, France Claims It's A Struggle, 25-Second Meeting with Ocampo

Yoda Speaks to Dead Cameras, Africa Ignored at the UN, Burkina Faso Dissed

At UN, Spain's Zapatero Sends McCain His Regards, Mulls U.S. Bail Out and Benefits

UN Brags of $16 Billion for Poor, Takes Few Questions on It, Snub-Gate II for Brown

Mugabe Mobbed at UN, Nigeria Not Adverse to Sanctions on His Zim

At UN, Norway and UN Differ on Rio Tinto, North Korean Council Visit a Mystery

UN's Partners on Food Pricing Range from Monsanto to Microsoft, Some Are Heartfelt

Serbia Questions France's Talk of Turbulence, Disappearance of  Funds from Kovovo

At UN, Green Funding Is Blood Oil Money As Questions Are Excluded

At UN, Ahmadinejad Denies Locking Up Journalists, Unless They "Infringe on Rights of Others"

Australia's Rudd Welcomes and Helps Design U.S. Bailout, Zoellick Praises Cox' SEC

At UN, Of Celery and Stakeouts, Corporate Hype On Annual Meeting's Sidelines

Finland Will Not Vote Against Serbia's Kosovo Resolution, Bolivian Silence and Italian Vacillation

At UN, Iceland's Grants to Island States Are Directed At Winning Security Council Seat

Sarkozy Not Opposed to Freezing Bashir Prosecution, Preens for French Media on Wall St. Issues

Bernanke Claims Fed Not to Control AIG, Justifies Morgan and Goldman Exclusion of Public

While Bailout Bills Vary from Senate to House, Neither Would Stem Foreclosures

Fed Snubs Any Public Review In Making Goldman and Morgan Bank Holding Companies

As Indictment of Bashir Arises at UN, Moreno-Ocampo Accused of Ego and Errors

UN Dodges Bias in Africa, Won't Criticize Ethiopia, Meets Obiang, Calls it Social Investment

In DC, Bailout Bill Pushed Beyond US, to HSBC, Barclays, Deutsche Bank and Nomura

At UN, A Curried Goat Farewell to Mengesha, Mobility Called Unhelpful

At UN, Russia - US Dispute Triggered Call for Security Officers by Nicaraguan Priest  (updated Sept. 25)

Afghanistan Resolution Slowed by Civilian Deaths Raised by Russia, Cold War in UN

In UN Musical Chairs, Guehenno Returns as Advisor, Kerim on Climate, Roed-Larsen's Connections

Khalilzad of US Defends Sima Samar, Sudan Has Denounced After Signing ICC's Rome Statute

Re-Branding Responsibility to Protect, Gareth Evans Says Somalia's Not Covered

At UN, Freezing Indictment of Al Bashir Discussed by France, Sharing Evidence with ICC Dodged

AIG Bail Out Shows Fed's Favoritism, Patrikis, Willumstad and Revolving Doors


At UN, Doubts Grow Of ICC's Moreno-Ocampo, on Lubanga and Uganda Abuses (updated Sept. 17)

UN's Responsible Investment Dodges Rights, Dervis Guns for DSG Slot

At UN, Nicaraguan Priest Takes Helm and Swings Left, New Cold War at the Movies

UN Remains Unreformed After Srgjan Kerim's Year, Sarah Palin on Her Way

Alaska House in SoHo, Even Palin-Less, Is a Bridge to Somewhere: But Where?

At UN, Questions of Who Can Read Whose E-mail, Outsourced Computer Contracts

Bank of America - Merrill Would Violate 10% Deposit Cap, Laws Snubbed by Subprime

At UN, Tonga's Prayers & MDG Hoopla, NGO Follies from Ground Zero to Nauru

UN Dodges Questions of Sri Lanka Pull-Out and Kosovo Cover-Up, UNDP Fees

In UNDP Secrecy Plan, Even Funders Must Gives Reasons to See Audits, Board Must Be Notified

On Myanmar, UN Visits As Possible Leverage, China and India Want Groundcover


As Myanmar Arrests Dissidents, Its Group of Friends Meet at UN


UN's Ban in Solar Car Makes Hot Air But Shows Promise of Electric Planes

UNDP's Funding of Saakashvili Causes Russian Uproar, For-Ex Stonewalling Continues

On Myanmar, UN Belatedly Speaks, Claims It Has No Leverage, Blames NLD, It Seems

UN's Ban Avoids Questions of New Cold War, U.S. War on Terror, Excluded Journalists Speak

As US Tightens Insurance Sanctions on Iran, Lloyd's of London Writes Myanmar Policies

In Georgia, Prior Notice by UN of Gori Trip Disputed by Russia, Maintained by UN

Chaos in UN Budget and Chain of Command, Valencia and Computers, Jobs for Prodi and Ross?

As Myanmar Defends N. Korea, UNDP Covers Up For-Ex Losses, Mute on Revolving Door

As Russia Proposes Arms Embargo on Georgia, Sarkozy's Dream World Exposed

At UN, Ingrid Betancourt Urges Ban to Act About Myanmar, 15 Days of Silence Soon To Be Broken

At UN, From Togo Lies to Red Flags, Discrimination and Corruption Alleged

UN's Terror Victims Lack Afghans, Somalia, Sri Lanka, and China, UNICEF Defends Links

UN Discusses Ceasefire with Zimbabwe's Ambassador, Against Criticism of UN (updated Sept. 11, Council briefing will be Sept. 17)


Charges of Secrecy and "Hanky Panky" Haunt UN Terrorism Event, Ban Panned by UNISERV

Subcrime Questions As Freddie Mac Handed to Moffett of Carlyle and US Bancorp

At UN, Of Sri Lankan Letters Lost, Tamil Tiger Cards Revoked, Sexed-Up Peacekeepers

At UN, Indigestion at Request for Court Ruling on Kosovo Independence

Myanmar Silence at UN Half-Broken by Kerim, Mysteries Continue, Currency Dodged

UNDP Admits Herfkens Broke Rules, Dodges on Currency Exchange Losses

UN's Borg-Olivier, Warned for Pro-Kosovo Quotes, Is Paid Through UNDP to Advise Kosovo


At UN, Myanmar Briefing Looms While Mauritania, Uganda and Sudan Fall Off Agenda

In Congo, UN Denies Shooting at Protesters, Delays Copter Crash Benefits Answers

At UN, Zalmay Khalilzad Gets By With a Little Help From His Friends

At UN, Press Relations Veer from Stonewalling on Myanmar to Crackdown on Content

At UN, South Africa Wants to Hear from Tony Blair, Saharan Christopher

As UN's Ban Says Nobody Follows Him, He's Presiding Over Chaos on Ethics and Disclosure

UN's Solution of Herfkens at $1 a Year Could Cost $100,000 in "Subsistence Allowance"

At UN in Kosovo, Harland Replaces Haysom, Borg-Olivier and Trust Fund Need Review

At UNDP, Herfkens' Dollar Dodge, Playing with UN Ethics, ACABQ Coup

On Myanmar, ASEAN Diplomat Predicts Gambari's Replacement, Road Talk at BIMTEC

In Pronunciation War, Russians are I-less in Abkhazia's Sukhum, South Ossetia Too

On Georgia, UN Council Devolves to War of Words, Of Kosovo and TV Bombs

As UN Council Meets on Georgia, Pandora's Box Is Open, Kosovo's Ghosts

At UN, Georgian Theater Continues, Without Abkhaz and Ossetians for Now

Asked if UN Set Suu Kyi Up, UN Remains Silent, Burma Under the Shroud of Turin

UN Whistleblower in Tokyo Raises Questions of Fraud, Cover-Up and Retaliation from Below

While UN Fudges on Georgia and Kosovo, UNOMIG Head Dines Italian Alasania

Little Prospect of Security Council Reform, Draft Working Group Report and Debate Show

UN Mission in Georgia Faces October 15 End, Kosovo Precedent Looms, Ban is Missing

Gambari's Myanmar Visit "Disappointing," UK Mission Says, UN Takes No Questions

At UN, Envoy to Zimbabwe Is Blocked at Gate, Security of Somalia and MDC


After US Bombing in Afghanistan,  At UN Russia Puts Out Draft Condemnation

UN's Engagement with Saakashvili Included $1500 a Month, Soros and Sweden Also Paid

UN's Gambari Denied A Meeting with Suu Kyi, Not by Than Shwe But The Lady

UN's Gambari's Trips to Myanmar Questioned, Without Answers, Photo-Op In Balance

At UN, Russia Finalizes Georgia Draft As Sarkozy's Add-On Points Are At Issue

UN Refuses to Release Agreement With EULEX in Kosovo

Between Russia and Georgia, No Meeting of Minds, By Sarkozy's Design

UN's Algiers Bombing Accountability Report Is Late, Amid Music for Baghdad

As Sarkozy Drafts Sloppily, the World Catches a Cold War

France's Georgia Resolution Is Dismissed by Russia, Wanting All 6 Points of Agreement In

At UN, Mauritania's Coup Is Just "Corrective Change," Pre- and Post-Coup Ambassador Says

At Olympics with UN, Blur of Tourism and Commerce, Team Darfur and Sporting Goods

UN Terror Confab Has Only 3 Funders, Spain Wants Security Job Beyond UNIFEM and Base (updated August 19)

UN in Sudan is Lost in Translation and Typos, ICC Confusion and Mute on Mauritania

UN Defensive on Sudan's Abyei, Silent on Georgia and Somalia, Mauritania Coup Snafu

Musharraf's Resignation Recalls His Staged Appearance At UN, Impunity Questions Loom

UN Dodges Myanmar Questions as Losses and Arrests Mount, in Zimbabwe Too

Serbian Minister Says No Extradition of Kovacevic to the US, on Kosovo Asks UN Court Ruling

On Currency Exchange Losses, UN Starts Cover-Up in Myanmar and Beyond


Expelled from Sudan, UN Peacekeeper Mops Up in Eritrea, As UNIFIL Pays for Ships

Russia and Georgia in Propaganda War, UN's OCHA Is Called One-Sided

Japan Gets UN Financial Post, Pays for UNDP-Backed Cambodia Court

At UN in Congo, Gold and Dealing with Nkunda, Sexual Threats and New Staff Complaints

Russian War on Internet, Reuters Accused as in Lebanon then Rehabilitated

UN's Darfur Mission Mis-Served by Lockheed and Donors, Agwai Says JEM's the Player

On Ossetia, Denials by Khalilzad of Foreign Fighters, by Yerevan of Russian Planes in Armenian Bases

On Georgia, Weakened French Draft Draws Russian Ire, Leninist Diplomacy on War Crimes

As Georgia is Bombed, Bush Mis-speaks and UN Council Meets, Verbeke Resurfaces

ICC's Ocampo Dismisses Sudan's Process, Sudan Dismisses Ocampo, of Moral Damages

At UN, Georgia Protesters Demand Council Action But Veto Seems Sure

At UN, Georgia Ceasefire Stalemate, Russia Speaks of Genocide and Kosovo

As UN Stalls on Georgia, Talk of Oil Pipelines and Armenia Airbases

At UN, Georgia Claims Russia Spreads Conflict to Abkhazia, Renouncing Force Rejected

UN Shrugs at Zimbabwe Amnesty Draft as Ban's Envoy is Barred from Harare

On S. Ossetia, No Agreement at UN's Midnight Meeting on Use of Force or Ethnic Cleansing

At UN, South Ossetia Shoot Out Trigger Late-Night Council Meeting, Kosovo Echoes

At UN, Lockheed Lute to Head PBC, Spain Eyed for Safety, How Will Irish Legal Chief Compare?

On Darfur, UN Dodges Rights and Justice, Cancels Compact Meeting, U.S. Concerned

As Ban Fetes His Envoys' Nepal Roles, Copter Co. Vertical-T is Suspended, UN Heats Up

UN's Ban Keeps Kosovo Report Secret, Sends Envoy, Mauritania Coup Not on Radar

Spanish Coins Face Stealth Sale by Secret Museum, Frank Lorenzo Is Said to Change Hispanic Society

UN in Myanmar Still Losing 20% on Currency Exchange, Asks for More, Problem Widens

Discrimination and Corruption in UN Alleged to Ban by Whistleblower's Letter

At UN, Iran and Sudan Indictment Freeze Are Not on August's Agenda, Ban's Heat-Up Is

The Strange, Short Tenure of UN's Verbeke in Lebanon, Reports of Safety Threats

UN's Ban Distances Himself from Sudan's Bashir, After Off the Record Lunch with Journalists

UN's Ban in Shirt-Sleeves, a Cooling Room Next Door, Asked about Double-Standards by Fox

Darfur Mission Is Extended as U.S. Abstains, Indictment of Bashir Denounced by China and "Majority"

UN in Kosovo Erred in Using Force, Withheld Report Says, Passports Passed to Zim's Printer

Darfur Peacekeepers Left Hanging As U.S. Opposes Note Indictment Freeze in Resolution

UN Base in Spain Still Is Not Approved, Despite Photo-Op of Castle Made of Sand

At UN, Questions of Skanska's Involvement in NJ Bribery Case and Cut-Back of Tours

On Darfur Resolution, Al-Bashir Indictment Freeze To Get Mention, Sudan Claims, Vote Thursday

UN Peacekeeping Chief Guehenno Dodges On ICC and Lockheed to the End, Still a Fond Farewell

Spending on Vanity Press History of UNAIDS Called a "Detail" By Peter Piot Before Mexico Confab

U.S. Calls for End of Myanmar For-Ex Rules After UN Admits Losses, UK Joins, France Silent

On Darfur, Playing Chicken with UNAMID, Burkina-Faso's Selective Solidarity with AU

UN Admits $10 M Exchange Loss in Myanmar, Says Will Disclose Others Countries and Losses

Leaked Minutes Show UN Knew of 20% Loss in Myanmar 2 Weeks Prior to $300 Million Request

Leaked Minutes Show UN Knew of 20% Loss in Myanmar 2 Weeks Before $300 M Request

As UN Lawyer Says Peacekeepers Work with ICC in Congo, Sudan Aftermath Approaches

As Myanmar Tweaks Its Theft of UN Aid Funds from 25% to 17%, Donor Anger at "Burma Shave"

As UN Admits 25% Loss in Myanmar, Demand for Return of Cash Grows, No UNDP Answers

UN Legal Chief Michel Departs, Housing Subsidy Questions Still Unanswered

UN's Darfur Negotiations On Bashir and ICC Pit China and Libya Against France

UN Admits Currency Losses in Myanmar, Won't Say How Much Lost or Why It Was Denied

UN Tours Barred from Security Council from August 1, Fire Code Fixes Not Made, Disabled Excluded

At UN, Cambodian Meeting Postponed, Nepal Mission Shrunk, Political Prisoners in an Overcrowded Room

UN Internal Justice Dominated by Management's Lawyers, Whistleblower Restitution Denied

UN's Somalia Envoy Favors Referral to Ocampo, TFG Promises Justice for Killers of Aid Workers

At UN, High-Level Friends of Myanmar Meet But Few Speak, As Cambodia Is Urged to be Quiet

In Myanmar, UN Loses 25% of Aid in Currency Exchange, Up from 15% Pre-Cyclone


At UN, 7 Countries Discussed by Ban with 19 US Congress Members, But Not Somalia

Nepal Rift Shows India's Place in the UN, Who Decides the Mandate and When to Leave

Gambari Says He Has Quit Niger Delta Post For Lack of Time, Gordon Brown's Comments May "Create Problems"

With Russian Flights and Georgian IDPs, Non-Use of Force Discussed at UN, Kosovo Echoes

A Bronx Juror's Eye View: Gypsy Cab Crash Gets One-Day Trial Nine Years Too Late

At UN, Pillay for Rights Jobs Faces Abortion, Competence and Durban Questions from U.S.

ICC's Ocampo's Cape Town Times As Darfur Was Sent His Way Is Shown by Rejected Complaint

As India Criticizes UN's Ban on Nepal, Will He Counter-Attack as on Zimbabwe?

ICC's Ocampo Mugs for "The Reckoning," Fired Whistleblower But ICC Will Pay the Damages?

UN Mulls Reducing Press Space and Raising Costs, Reducing Access

Child Soldiers Recruited by Darfur Rebels JEM Raised at UN, Development Spin Questioned

ICC's Ocampo Defends His Africa-Only Focus, His Strategy In Question

In Darfur, Lockheed is Late and Poor Performer, UN Admits of No-Bid Contract

Myanmar Exchange Rate Is "Difficult," UN's Holmes Will Review in Yangon, Council June 24

As UN Charges Indian Peacekeeper of Consorting With Congo Rebels, Discipline Is Questioned

At UN, Indictment of Bashir Denounced by S. Africa, France Says "It's Not Too Late"

"Johnny Mad Dog" Triggers Soldier Debate, Treatment of Africa in Question

At UN, Only Some War Criminals Can Be Spoken With, Only Some Ambassadors Can Speak

At UN, Downer and Blair Conflicts of Interest Unaddressed, Vienna Compact Unfiled

UN's Ban Slams Zim on Bias, But Lets Slide N. Korea and Russia's Kosovo Critique

In Zimbabwe, Anglo-American Mining Says It's Held Hostage, Defends Investing

China Opposes Any Sudan Indictments, Would Support Suspending, Darfur Threat Level Raised

At UN, Zim Sanctions Killed by Double Veto, Sudan and ICC Foreshadowed: Who Is Isolating Whom?

UN Admits Losses to Myanmar Junta Through Currency Exchange, NGOs Skirt with Hawala

In Darfur, Australia Says UN Has Suspended Deployment, Suspension of Indictments Discussed

UN's Ban Dodges Questions While His Spokesperson Blocks and Ignores Them

Myanmar Restrictions on Radios and Currency Exchange Persist, as France Grandstands


UN's Currency Transactions with Myanmar Regime Questioned, UNDP's Two Week Stonewall

UN Human Rights Post Will Be Awarded Before Any Briefing of GA, Kerim Claims Input

Zim Sanctions Draft Adds Two Names, Drops HIV / AIDS Issue, Thursday Vote?

Anglo-American Mining's Zim Deal Questioned, Global Compact "Should Pay Attention," UNICEF Demos

Russia Brings South Ossetia to UN, Calls EULEX in Kosovo "Deplorable," Serbs Aggrieved

On Zimbabwe Resolution, All Eyes Turn to Russia and G-8, France's Stance Questioned

On Gold-Trading UN Peacekeepers, Zero Tolerance is Null and Void, Lute as Security Chief?

At UN, Delay on Zimbabwe Resolution, Trading Luxury for Veto, Putting Myanmar Off

Child Soldiers Recruited in Chad Still Held in Sudan, ICC's Lubanga Case Questioned

Lockheed's UN Darfur Contract Will Not Be Extended But Divided Up Due to Risk, Malcorra Says

Zimbabwe Connections of UN Global Compact Leader Questioned Alongside Delistings

UNseen Fireworks, U.S. Holds Out for Minor Change to ECOSOC Text on Climate Change

At UN, of Dressed Dogs and Ban's Beef, Nigeria Reviewed under CEDAW, Gambari's Delta Days

Rwandans To Pullout of Darfur If Karenzi is Replaced, Agwai's Praise of Sharon Draws Ire

Zimbabwe Resolution Unveiled, with Name Games and Notice of Sanctions, Perhaps No Veto

On Darfur, While U.S. Lobbies for Lockheed, Sudan Says No, UK On ICC Moves (updated July 4, 2008)
 
At UN, Untouchable Fashion Show Livens ECOSOC, China Chides NGOs about  Darfur

Iran Calls U.S. Elections Propaganda, Cites U.S. Support for Terror Groups, U.S. Stay Mum

In UN Council, Zimbabwe Added to Vietnam President's Agenda, Myanmar Still in Limbo

UNDP Whitewashing Whistleblower's Claims in Somalia, Resists Backpay and Ethics Office

At UN, Peacekeeping and Food Snafus Kept Out of France's EU Celebration

At UN, Rapporteur Alston Admits Drone Silence from US, Silent on UN, Calls Methods of Killing a Catch-22

UN's Concern About Investors Kept Algeria Threat Level Low Before the Bombing

As UN Contractor Skanska Hits Pipe, Methane Gas Clears Printing Plant, Landfill Blamed

As UN TV Staffing Contract Talks Stall, Vendor's Finances Shaky, Scabs In the Wings

As Thailand Forcibly Returns One Thousand Hmong to Laos, UN Actions Questioned

UNDP To Pay Whistleblower 14 Months Back Pay for Lack of Due Process, Oversight Must Increase

Let Zimbabwe's Cricket Players Travel, UN's Advisor Lemke Says, Croatia Zim Role Questioned

As Ban Heads to Asia, UN Labor Strife Heats Up, Safety in Shambles, UNDP Runs Wild

On Genocide, UN Cites Immunity to Srebrenica Claims, Lack of Jurisdiction Over Peacekeepers

UN's Drug Czar Lambastes Taliban and FARC, Calls Myanmar Problematic, Dodges