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Updated July
4, 2008, 1:07 p.m. - Some
recent 2008 articles -
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 North Korea
On Eve of Asia Trip, Ban Speaks Without Mentioning
Sudan, Somalia, the Congo or Corruption
Controversial EDF Dam in Laos Is UNDP's
Anti-Corruption Example, Panel Claims
At UN, Safety Goat Resurfaces in UNDP, Strikes on the Horizon, Michel's
Basement Praise
UN's Sudan Envoys Question ICC's Timing, Call for
Chad Solution, Don't Know of Lockheed
At UN, Closed
Door Meeting on Labor Strife Finds
Competing Confucius Quotes
In Algiers Bombing Fall-Out, Veness Resigns,
But Confidential Report Points Further
At UN, Djibouti Admits French Copter Flights, Blames
Eritrea for Shoot-outs, Distributes Photos
Zimbabwe Is On but Not On UN
Council Agenda, Ban Soldiers On, Kenya and Sergio in Background
At UN, Sachs Defends Monsanto and
Terminator Seeds, Praises Pharmaceutical Industry and Patents
At UN, Chissano Says Council Ready to Defer to
Uganda on Kony, ICC as Well
On Kosovo,
UN's Ban Torn Between Sponsors and
Majority and Law, Handover Under Fire
At UN, Rape Arguments Reconsidered,
Human Security Questioned, UEFA Cup Cheered
In UN Basement, Zimbabwe, Myanmar and a Fig Leaf
NGO, Consensus Belied by Empty Chairs
At UN, Zimbabwe and Pro-Rape Arguments Fade, from Condi to
Susan Rice
UN and Pilot Error Blamed for Nepal Copter Crash,
Srebrenica Immunity Claim, Child Soldier Silence
In Myanmar, Only Ex-Poppy Farmers Get UN Human
Security Trust Funds, Concept Still Ill-Defined
UN Inaction in Abyei Is Under "Review,"
Despite Belated Fight-Back from Qazi, Drone Stories
Preventive Diplomacy Is
Half-Embraced at UN, Haysom Admits Push Back, Wants War Stories
On Darfur, Need for "More Activity from
UN," US Envoy Says, France's Chad Support as a Problem
Darfur's "Genocide in Slow Motion"
Described in UN Basement, But No Doctor Heal Thyself
UN Schools EU Companies to Get Yet More
Contracts, Outreach to Developing World Lacking
French Mercenaries To Patrol Somalia, Blackwater in Farrow's
Dream for Darfur
In UN, Website on Human Rights Commissioner Is
Blocked, No Follow Up on Calls for Reform
At UN, Changes to Council's Sudan
Statement, French Words for Chad But Not Lubanga
On Darfur, Mia Farrow Pans Ban, Calls for UN
Action, Says JEM and Chad's Acts Less Important
At UN, Khalilzad Says His Future Is In the Private Sector,
In the US and Not Kabul, Oil in the Air
At UN, Cyprus Wording Games And Closed
Meeting Problems, Quiet Darfur Meeting Set for June 17
At UN, Zimbabwe Briefing Sparks Controversy, Darfur
Trucks May Get UN Protection, Holmes Says
Even After Omdurman, UN Can Meet with JEM
Rebels Unless Sanctions Are Imposed, UN and U.S. Say
Lockheed's
No-Bid Darfur Contract Ending, Ruecker to Leave Kosovo, UN Peacekeeping In Disarray
At UN, Talk of Rule of Law Doesn't Jibe with Africa
Tour by Council
Swiss Brag of Help to North Korea But Do Not Fund
in Sudan, Explanation Sought
UN in Africa Needs Further Oversight, Should
Protect Trucks to Darfur, of Double-Standards
Gbagbo Asks UN Help to Consolidate
Power, Basket Funds from UNDP
Ban's Man Choi Dodges ONUCI Sex Abuse Questions, Zero
Said on Zero Tolerance
Comedy of Errors Delays UN Council in Kigali, Fuel Cash
Collected, Wired Assurances
After Gunfire, UN Council Proceeds By Bus to
Kigali, With B-Movie and Truck Stop Detour
Gunfire
Grounds UN Council's Plane in Goma after IDP Camp
Visit, Busses to Rwanda
In Goma, UN Council Lands Next to the Lava, Talks
Justice in Mobutu's Villa by the Lake
Eastern Congo Violence Allowed by UN, Fancy Uvira
Camp as Council Visits Goma, Gold and Guns Denied
UN
Council
Faces and Dodges Congolese Push-Back About
Bemba's Indictment by ICC
Congo's
Kabila Praises Indictment of his Enemies, UN Spins Kivu Displacement
France-Led
UN Council Goes Soft on Chad, Child Soldiers Unanswered, Strange
Approach to JEM
UN Council Has Questions to Ask Chad, from Child
Soldiers to Pardons and Carjacking
Sudan's Bashir Cites US Precedents Against It, Calls Lockheed
"Bizarre," Urged to Forgive JEM
Sudan's
Bashir in Open Meeting Calls for Local Procurement,
Derides "Vicious Campaign"
In Darfur, Zamzam Camp Food Rations Cut in Half,
Balsamic Vinegar for Sale in El Fasher
In Darfur, No-Bid Contract Problem Ripens, UN Ambassadors
Jockey for Position, Children Wave
As UN Council Heads to Darfur Camp, Questions of Mandate,
Abyei and Changing Beliefs
In Sudan, UN Council Doesn't Know of Child
Soldiers, Split on ICC
Sudan Trumpets Museum of May 10 Militia Attack, Omdurman
as Indictment of Chad
In Sudan and in New Film, War Crimes Unanswered,
Harun's Escape Recounted
In Khartoum, UN Council In as US
Envoy's Out, Alternative Tours, Spin of Carnival Rides
In South Sudan, UN Council
Confronts Heat and Goats, Rising Tensions and Rents in Juba
UN
Council Meets Many UK-based Somalis, Dodges
Requests for Human Rights Prosecutions
Ethiopian Troops Cast Shadow on
Djibouti Talks, But Who Could or Would Replace Them?
Report on UNDP in North Korea
Raises More Questions Than It Answers
Somali President and Ex-Capital
Baidoa Surrounded by Trouble, UN Council Told at Djibouti Talks
UN-Represented
at Djibouti Talks
Are Somaliland and Al-Shabab, Piracy Projections
In Kenya, Amnesty Rift Echoes Annan-Led Mediation, Leaked
Minutes Show, Council Passes Through
Dutch
Government Also Paid
Military Officials at UN, Like Herfkens and N. Korea, Litigation Needed
As UN Council Heads to Africa,
Justice in Confidential Meetings, Impunity Not Mentioned
In UN Musical Chairs, Malcorra
Settles In, Downer, Sanino and Japan Are in Line
UN
Secretariat's Miscount in
Human Rights Council Vote Remains Unexplained
In Fallout from Georgian Drone,
Abkhazia Analogies Cut Two Ways, Kosovo or Chechnya
UN Council Shouldn't Bypass South Sudan, Qazi Cables, Somalia
Answers Needed
Human Rights Council Vote Flawed by Two Errors,
Kerim Admits, Spain Demands Improvements
As UN Staff Ask for Answers, Barcena Says No War, Calls to
Ban Still Unreturned
UN's Ban and the Press, Sometimes a Vicious
Circle, Of Pools and Control of Microphone
Eveline Herfkens Commits the Perfect Crime, No UN
Answer on Robert Serry's Housing
Aung San Suu Kyi's Arrest Extended After Visit of
UN's Ban, Belated Regrets
UN Admits Child Sex Problem, But Ban in Denial on
Congo Gold and Guns Cover-Up
UNDP Finds "No Mal-Intent" For Money
Herfkens Is Asked to Return, Charges Denied
UN Says Russia Shot Down Georgian Drone, Which
Shouldn't Have Been Over Abkhazia
Calling Criticism "Unwise," UN Says It's
Open to States and Staff, But Not the Public or Press
While
UN's Ban Calls Myanmar Flexible, With "No Strings,"
Building Titans Loom
Bemba's
Arrest in Belgium Raises ICC Questions
about Darfur, Uganda and Congo's Kerim
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi Not Mentioned by UN's
Ban to Than Shwe
UN's Congo Scandal was Covered-Up, Former OIOS
Investigator Says, Accountability Delayed
UN's Staged Myanmar Tour Shows Empty Tents But Avoids
Election in Delta
In Nepal, Killing in Cantonment Site Called
Criminal by UK, Child Soldiers "Put to the Side"
In Burundi, UN
Admits FNL Rebels Fired Katyusha Rocket, Provenance Left Vague
At UN, Human Security Called Pretext for Invasion,
Jordan Prince Speaks of Right to Protect
Srgjan Kerim, His
Financing This Year Still Undisclosed, Is Not Available for Questions
UN Peacekeeping Gives CISCO Access to Its Cairo Meetings,
Roots of No-Bid Contracting
Geneva Staff Speak of UN
"Bias," Management Sacrificed to Globe-Trotting Pursuits
Amid Mysterious Invalid Ballots, France and UK Squeak By Spain on Human Rights
Council
UN's Tokyo Scandal
Addressed Only to Japanese Media, Multiple Hats of UN Officials
Questioned
On Eve of Human Right Council Elections, US Silent
on Sri Lanka, France Takes No Questions
As UN, Talk of
Post and Salary Reductions, Ban's
Surprise and Secret Audits
On Way to Myanmar and Than Shwe, Banning the Press
at UN
UN
Dodges Gypsy Questions as Camps in Naples Burn
in Seeming Blind-Spot
UN Office of Legal Affairs Gives Sloppy Consent to
UN Logo Use, Declines to Answer
UN Ranges from Earthquake Sobriety to Anti-Abortion
Fundraiser to
Georgian Celebration
Human Rights Council "Deal" Predicted for
Sri Lanka by Co-Candidate Japan
UN's Barcena Reportedly "Declares War on
Staff," Pro - Management Slate Predicted
At UN, Mystery of
the Disappearing Myanmar Visit Story Remains Unresolved
At
UN in NY and Geneva, BAN Under Fire, on Contracting, Hiring and Justice
Reform
On
Violence from Zimbabwe to East Timor, UNDP Says One Thing But Does
Another
At UN, Leaks Show Budget Process Is Broken, Germany Claims
$41 Million for Lebanon
Ships
Africa at the UN,
from Slides of UNCTAD to Senegal Fights, Somalia Resolution and
Protests
Myanmar Grants Visa to UN's John Holmes, But What Next?
From UN's Post-Cyclone
Stalemale, Air Clooney Called For as Hollywood's R2P
At UNDP,
Whistleblower Says Somalia Contracts Steered to KPMG, Previous
Complaints
Unresolved
On Myanmar,
Questions of Lack of UN Training and of Ethnic Cleansing of Karen, R2P?
In Wake of UN's
Darfur Contract with Lockheed, Promotions and Partying But No Peace
UN Staff Supporting
Myanmar Cyclone Relief Ask Ban to Hear Their Call and End Delay
Chasing the Flame
with Cheese Cubes, US Progressives at UN Launch Campaign Funded by eBay
In Congo, Kung Fu
and Dragon Will Be Re-Interviewed by OIOS, Pre-Screening Allegations
"Responsibility
to Protect" Does Not Apply to
Myanmar, UN's Expert Tells Inner City Press
At UN, Management
Shake-Up Would Send Barcena to Chile, German Kane to Fill the Slot
Some
Companies Involved in Myanmar Are Also Missing in Action In Cyclone's Wake
At UN,
Myanmar
Pledging Under U.S. Shadow, France Fades, Oil Companies Give A Little
Back
UN
Covers Up Wasted TV Money, Gags Staff and Asks, "Are You with the
Heritage Foundation?"
On Myanmar, OCHA's
Holmes Gets the Memo, Ed Luck Missing in Action on R2P
At UN, Ahlenius Is
In Denial on Congo, Goes Slow on Lockheed Martin in Darfur Inquiry
UN
"Concerned" that Hutu Rebels in Congo and Burundi's FNL Collaborate
On Myanmar,
France's Bluster Met by Skepticism, China Speaks of Aid But Does Not
Film
Itself
At UN, Sri
Lanka
Serves Quiche for Rights Council Seat, France Missing, UNDP Worker and
Gun
Art Show at UN
Features Chrysalis and Whaling, No Need for Christie Brinkely, Artists
Say
At UN,
as France Demands Action on Myanmar, China Raises
Heat Wave Deaths of French Elders
In Myanmar
Cyclone's Wake, Lack of Disaster Risk Reduction Follow-up Raised
UN "Could Do
More" on Human Rights, is "Not Free" as to Press, Study Releasers
Conclude
UN
Praises
Financial Speculators on Food, Zimbabwe's Role in Social Development
In Ban's UN, of
Cancelled Meetings and Disgruntled Staff, Following the Rostrum
At UN,
"Ban-Handling" of Press Triggers Apology But Not Yet Any Explanation
UNDP Ambassador
Ronaldo in Prostitution Scandal, As UN Watches the News
On UN's
Congo Scandal, Ban Defers to OIOS, Which Itself
Stands Accused
UN's Budget
Committee Complains of Late Reports, Diagnosis of OIOS Problems
At UN,
Ban and the Myanmese People, Food as UNRWA's Friends
Party
As UN Breaks Ground, Cracks Develop in Swing Space
Plan, City Records Show
UN "Swing
Space" Hit by Partial Stop Work Order for Unsafe Conditions
At UN, Exclusion of
Press Still Unaddressed, Nepal and Impunity Questions Unanswered
UK Schizophrenic on
Human Rights, But Says No Impunity for LRA's Kony
UN Hosts
Environmental Smoke and Mirrors, Naomi Campbell, Indigenous Outrage
At UN, Naomi
Campbell Headlines $450 a Ticket Fundraiser for Invisible Environmental
Group
At
UN, Reports Withheld by Ahlenius of OIOS Are Put Online,
Congo Cover-up Alleged
UN Global Duo Call Food
Price Speculation Serious,
But No Guidance Offered
At UN, BAN Not in Time 100, Georgian If-Asked and
Groundbreaking Moves to Cubicles
Access to
Information Discussed But Not Practiced at UN, Which
Journalists Are Protected?
France Wants
In on Human Rights Council, But Rights Out of W. Sahara Resolution, Sri
Lanka Question
At UN,
Internet Blocking is Dodged, Uzbek Defense and
Myanmar "Vote Yes" Sidestepped
In
MINURSO's Wake, Doubts About Van Walsum, Ripert on the
Run
At UN,
Western Sahara Session Goes Late But Words Not Changed, Realism Disputed
At UN On
South Sudan, Killing the MINURCAT,
Lord's Resistance Army to be Reported On
On Western Sahara,
Rifts about Realism and Rights, France's Overkill, Pristina Question
Unanswered
Zimbabwe
Opposition Calls UN Agencies Complicit, Not Helping
Refugees, Council Action Blocked
At UN,
France Says Timing
of Ivorian Elections Not Important, Nor of Zimbabwe Meeting
UN Investigates
Itself in Kosovo, with Francis SSekandi, and in Haiti Shoot-out
Aftermath
Dissonance at UN
Information Meeting, Bragging of Outreach While Web Sites Are Blocked
At UN,
Responsibility to Protect Has Different Meanings, Envoy Luck Has No
Phone
As UN Spins Reports
of Peacekeepers' Congolese Gold Deals, Who Audits the Auditor, OIOS?
With UN's Ruecker Private in Pristina, Angela Kane Pulls
Ahead, Ripert Ripe for Post?
UN Silent on LRA,
Short Lists and Sanctions, Bans Iran from Transcripts But Answers on
Congo
At UN, Malaria Week
is Nothing But Nets, Sri Lankan Lessons on the Margins
WFP's Sheeran Says
Speculators Are a Cause of Food Price Crisis, But Has No Suggestions
Italy's Heroism at
UN Council's Gaza Meeting is Denied, Corriere Questioned
At UN, Letter
Banning Use of Ki-moon Said Not Received by Spokesperson
UN Calls Visa
Meeting Closed to Media, Press Release Censored by UN Legal Office
At UN, Russian Drone
Denials, Ties for Beijing Games, France's Earplug Storm-Out
China Asks
UN to
"Desist from Harboring" North Koreas, Mbeki "Colors"
Programs for Zim Refugees, Official Says
Donors Ask for UN Jobs,
America Owns Some, UNHCR Deputy Johnstone Says
UN Women's Agency
Controversy Banned from Kidman Press Conference, SayNoToViolence.com
As UN Host Country
Committee Discusses Access, Press is Excluded, by Office of
Legal Affairs
UN Cites
Outsourcing to Defend Blocking Web Sites of its Critics, Censorship
Alleged
UN Confirms and
Defends Deletion of Ban Statements from Transcripts, What Else Gets
Erased?
Kosovo
"Respects Dual Citizenship," But Dodges Abkhazia Question, Downed
Drone Deferred
Blog of UN's Kovoso
Envoy Ruecker Invites Questions, But Financial Disclosures Not Made
Of FIFA and Coca, Evo
Morales at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
UN Procurement
Dominated by Developed World, U.S. Grabs 25% Not Counting Lockheed
Martin
At UN, Ban's Iran Answer Is Banned from
Transcripts, Darfur Contacts Denied, Understaffing Unexplained
As UNDP's Selective
"For the Record" Omits Alberdi Flap, Scandals Proliferate
In UN, Job
Search by Kouchner and Prodi, Replacement
for Eliasson Sought, Alberdi Fall-Out
NY Times UN Post Slated for MacFarquhar, from Wine
to IPA, Revolving Door Spins
UN in Lock-Down As Pontiff Passes Through,
Diplomatic Sidelines Speeches
uploaded 11:30 a.m. GA Staff
At UN, Curtains Closed for Pope, Walking Path of
Lee Myung-bak, Roasting Rudy Reported
In Kosovo, UN Will Now Allow
But Not Authorize
Voting by the Serbs, Ex-Spy Given Post
At UN, Prodi's Job Search on
the Terrace, the
Specter of Mugabe While the Dirty Deals Continue
France's Role in Chad is "Normal," Rama
Yade Says, of the Disappeared
Gordon Brown in Sea of Snubs, Rents UN Room by the
Hour, Zim Election Observers Called For
On Africa's Day, Ban and Lee
Myung-bak Walk Is
"For Koreans Only," UN Says, Darfur Unanswered
Darfur Mission Only 30% Staffed, Living in
Containers Despite Lockheed's No-Bid Contracts
Cannes Confidential, Stealth UN TV Show with Undisclosed
Payments to Host
UN's Congo
Envoy Speaks of Disarmament and
Trains, No Comment on China Resource Deals
In NATO Showdown Aftermath, Abkhazia
Airport is a Bone of Georgia - Russia Contention
Banning the Olympics, UN Chief Prefers
Beijing in July to Heat of August 8, Questions Persist
Somali Minister Says Contacted by U.S. on
Missiles and on Pirate Trials by France, Talks Cell Phones
UN Plots a Global Lottery, Lays Claim to
U.S. Stimulus Payouts
At UN, of Liberian Rapes and Sri Lankan
Child Soldiers, OCHA Says a Better Story Must Be Told
UN Dodges on Kosovo and Myanmar Votes, Pope Face-Time and
Officials' Pay, Banner Day
General Assembly's Kerim Refuses to
Disclose Payments from WAZ Media Group, No Olympics Showing Either
UN
Censors Internet In Its NY Headquarters, Blocking Media
Critique and Non-Google Video Sites
Unveiling a Center in Spain, UN's Ban
Predicted Voting and the Future, Approval Not Assured
At UN, Transparency Debated
in Secret, Labor Discussed in the Basement, Arnault in DPKO Mix
UN's
Climate Chief Unaware of WMO's "World
Is Cooler" Statement, BBC Controversy
In UNIFEM Spin, Alberdi Speaks Only to
Spanish Media, India Calls Sen More Qualified, UNDP Silent
On
Deby's Chad Evictions, France Offers then Amends Defense,
Claims No Deal on Zoe's Ark
Banning the Olympics, To Skip Beijing Games, UN's Ban Cites
"Scheduling Issues"
UN Picks
Verbeke as Lebanon Envoy, Belgian
Waffling as Ban's Appointments Questioned
At UN,
Preparations for Korean President, Ban to Japan But Olympics Maybe Not,
Verbeke to Lebanon, Dari Zal
At UN, Some Call Management Reform an Oxymoron, G
to P Barriers and Breakaway UNDP
From Comoros to Yacht Taken by Somalia
Pirates, France Looms Large in African Seas, UN Not in Sight
UN Refugee Agency Workers
Impacted by
Algiers Bombing Were Uninsured, Funds Diverted,
Sources Say
At UN's Rwanda Genocide Commemoration,
Questions of FDLR, Darfur and UNDP's Mbarushimana
Top Post in UN Women's Agency Slated for Spain
in "Donor-Driven Process," $700 Million Echoes
UN Bans Interns from its Bar, Photos on Facebook and Line-Ups for Beer Led Two
Delegations to Complain
At UN,
Serbia's Vuk Jeremic Speaks of Kosovo, Says
Ruecker "Doesn't Deserve" Higher UN Post
UN's Non-Answers on Kosovo, Chad and Corruption, a
Week in the Fun House on UN Savings Time
UNICEF, Still Without Gucci's Money,
Dodges German Scandal, Answers on Heroin in Sri Lanka, Does Good
UN Assembly's President Is Employed By
Media Group, Refuses to Disclose Payments, Stepping To Reform
While Cluster Bombs Still Made in South
Africa, at UN Mine Wine and Cheese and Speeches by Lawless Officials
At the UN, Complaints Against New Labor
Chief Unanswered, Moonlighting Sportsman
In Congo, UN Controls Radio Content But
Will Not Show the Contract, Journalists in Danger
At UN, Views of Myanmar But
Not of Burmese Egg,
Kosovo Debate and Elections Questions
UN Development Program "Launders
Money" in Latin America, Chart and Sources Say
At UN Refugee Agency, Labor Power Plays
and No Comment on Safety or Zoe's Ark Pardons
At UN, No Canapes for Whistleblowers at
Farewell to Mark Wallace
At UN, Ted Turner Calls for Cut in
Funds to "Rat Hole" States like Zimbabwe, Transparency Questioned
Swiss Won't Disclose Amount Paid to Nicolas Michel,
Top UN Lawyer, Transparency Questioned
Russia Has "Tough
Questions" for UN on Kosovo, for Georgia on Abkhazia
Bronxites Are Excluded from
Metro-North
Trains, As Congestion Pricing Looms
UN As Defense Attorney for Lord's
Resistance Army, Erasing LRA Even From Transcript, Francophony Notes
At UN, Khalilzad's Undisclosed Meeting with Ban
Stumbled Onto, Of Budgets and Typos from Geneva
At UN, Rudd Downplays Timor Shoot-Out
Flap, Internal Investigation May Never Be Released
At UN, Talk of Uganda Asking
to Suspend
War Crimes Indictment of Lord's Resistance Army
At UN, Ban's Budget Add-Ons Top
$1.1 Billion, Criticism of Political Missions and Mandate "Alignment"
UN's Top Lawyer Declines to Answer on
Subsidy, Insurance or Settlements, Liberia Crash Fallout
Dutch Subsidy of Herfkens Triggers
Calls for Reimbursement, But Inaction from UNDP, Apartments Offshored
UN
Economist Jomo Sings of Sovereign Wealth Funds, Does Not
Publicly Disclose Finances
On
Afghanistan, UN Says There Never Was a Super-Envoy, UK
Cites Misunderstanding of Talks with Taliban
UN Refugee Agency Makes Deals with Donors for
Jobs and Contracts, Non-Answers including on Safety
At UN, Ban's Team Blames Budget on U.S., Whose
Ambassador Eschews Ferrari-Driving
At UN, Of
Missing Staff and Letters, Venom in the
Council Triggers Mistranslation Charge
At
UN, Protests to Corporate Control of Water, As Trial Lawyers Take an
Interest in Kabul
UN's
Top Lawyer Calls for Pension Reform, Says Ethics Office Decided Not to
Mention His $10,000 Monthly Swiss Subsidy
At UN, Film about Sergio de Mello Throws
Light on Somalia and Algiers, With Balkans Issues Missing
UN
Spokesperson Calls Ban - Bin Laden Meeting "Hypothetical," Terrorism
Left Undefined
UN's
Dollar-a-Year Sportsman Lemke May Be Moonlighting, As With Blair, UN
Won't Say
As UN
Belated Speaks About Somalia, No Comment on U.S. Missiles and
Designation of Al-Shabaab
As
Uganda's Kony Angles for Impunity, Council Blows Off Menkerios, Kofi
Feted Despite Karim
How GA
President Kerim Spends Money Questioned as Part of Reform by France and
Indonesia
As
Barkat's Pick as UN Ombudsman Is Protested, A Letter Is Lost, A C.V. Is
Padded, Union Says
UN's Top
Official Srgjan Kerim Accepts Outside Funding, Calls for Reform Which
UK Supports
Myanmar
Opposition's Letter to UN Gets Lost in UNDP's Mail, As China Is Missing
from Stakeout
UN's Kosovo
Rules of Engagement Questioned as Chain of Command is Retraced, Rossin
to NY
UN
Lawyer's Public Financial Disclosure Omits Swiss Subsidy He Now Admits
Having Received
UN Is Grilled
in DC, As Opponent of Free Press and Bloggers, Claims Not to Lobby
Fed's
Bear-Chase Bailout Raises Questions of Transparency and Countrywide
Subprime Negligence
WashPost - Guardian (UK)
At UN, of
Posts Doled Out and Protesters Arrested, Nepal and Burundi Questions
Still Dodged
Lockheed
Over-Spends on F-35, Sued and Questioned on Capitol Hill as in UN
UN's
Censorship and Press Punishment Slammed by Staff Union, From Google to
Photos of the Dead
In Africa,
UN Development Program Is a "Disaster," and Security Delayed Two Years,
Documents Show
As
UN's Ms. Ahlenius Withholds "Her" Report, UN Business Seminars Benefit
Rich Countries
As Georgia
Says Sochi Olympics May Not Happen, Russia Calls it Far-Fetched, Of
Abkhaz Trenches
In Nepal,
Another Death Tied to Downing of UN Copter, ID and Term of Contractor
Still Withheld
Press to
Expose UN's Scandals, African Union's Konare Says, As EC Inquires into
Lockheed Deals
As UNDP
Explains African Funding Dearth by World Bank Loans, Zoellick Expresses
Doubt
At UN,
Briefers Have No Comment on Haiti, Abkhazia or Bas Congo, Answers Found
Elsewhere
In Nepal, UN
"Regrets Altercation" With Media, Seizes Film of Crash Site, Won't Name
Contractor
At UN,
Developing Countries Demand Changes to Ban's Political Affairs Reforms
In
Darfur, UN Gave Lockheed $12 Million No-Bid Food Contract, Leaked
Minutes Show
UN Master Plan
Still Fuzzy On the Numbers, Dismissive of Skanska Scandal, But May Save
Trees
At UN's
Meeting on Jerusalem, Russian Gambit Leaves Libya Standing Alone, U.S.
With Buyer's Remorse?
UN
Envoy Robert Serry Moving Now to Reimburse Free Housing from Dutch
Government, in Herfkens Scandal Fall-Out (updated March 7)
As
Questions Grow on Funding of UN's Political Affairs, Freelance
Mediators Unveiled
Jeffrey
Sachs, Touchy About UNDP, Declines to Touch On Africa's Underfunding
Ecuador
Writes to UN Council President, Circulate But Do Not Discuss, Prefers
OAS
As UN Takes
a Shine to Avon, CEO Dodges Questions of Toxins in Cosmetics, No Report
to Shareholders
At UN,
Protest of Ban's Naming Ed Luck as "Anti-Genocide Trust Fund Baby"
UN's Deadly
Helicopter Crash in Nepal May Have Been Presaged By Another, Local
Reports Allege
On Drugs, UN
Urges More Government Control, Even in Myanmar, Dodges Crack Disparities
UN Changed
Darfur Request for Proposals, Leaked E-mails Show, To Track French
Amendments
In North
Kosovo Track Dispute, UN "Will Not Tolerate" Serbian Railroads, Will
Russia Tolerate UN?
At UN, Three
of Four Drop Opposition to Iran Sanctions Resolution, Indonesia Abstains
UN's Gaza
Meeting Results Only in a Summary, Iran Resolution Still Slated for
Monday Vote
UN Goes
Saturday Night Live on Gaza, Resolution on Iran Gets Inter-Linked Like
Tony Blair
On Threats
in Georgia and Burundi, Corruption by UN Officials, UN Has No Comment
Disputed
Soft Porn Quietly Removed from UN Lobby, "They Told Us to Take
It Down"
UN's
Brahimi Shifts Focus from Algiers Bombing Specifics, Report May Stay
Secret, Dervis Dodge Detailed
As New
Sanctions Loom, Iran's Kebab Diplomacy Heats Up at UN, Nuclear Stew
As UN's CAR
Alarmist Lanzer Praises Bozize Forces' Looting Limitation, His Taking
Sides Is Questioned
From
UNDP, Dry Talk of Moldova Drought, Cover Up of Moscow Fraud,
Development Questioned
UN Keeps
"Watchful Eye" on Contested Soft Porn In Its Lobby, UN Gender Advisor
Called It Appalling
Chad Closed
Radio Station, Used Swiss Plane for Wounded, Zoe's Ark Pardon Being
Considered
In UN's Caste
System, Talent Wasted by Nepotism, G's Called Just a Clerk, Offered No
Protection
UNDP
Waves Poverty Czar's Net Contract Online Then Does Not Answer Questions
As UN Budget
Grows, Big Space on Madison Avenue Is Eyed, Security In Question
UNDP
Fudges Herfkens' Part-Time Work, Dodges on Lockheed Connection, Other
Staff Files Withheld
In UN's
Corporate Frenzy, Western Union Dismisses Boycott, Coke Exonerates
Itself, UNICEF Plays Footsie
Soft
Porn Sold in UN Lobby, Despite Gender Advisor's Complaints to UN
Management
While
UN's Dutch Poverty Czar Retains Illegal Money, Brooklyn Woman Jailed in
Similar UN Case
UN's
Ban's Ally Han Accused of Under-Reporting His Assets, UN Disclosure
Called Into Question
Belgrade
Attacks as Chad Is Off the Map, With Iran Annexes and Timor Link,
Eritrea Needs a Report, But Where's Somalia's?
UN
Official Speaks of Punishing the Press, Alleging Cowardice, Ouster for
1 or 2 Critical Accounts
Faced
with Poll About Bombing of UN in Algeria, UN Was Diplomatic, Granted
Interview to Pollster
Ambulance
Responds Too Late for Journalist at UN, Searched at 1st Ave Gate,
Another Investigation
UN
Ignores ICC Indictments in Uganda, Evidence Collection in Congo, Plea
for Pakistan Probe
Murky World
of UN Mainframes Serviced by Non-Staff Personnel, Outsourcing without
Bids
Misuse of
Vacant Posts in UN Pension Fund and Geneva, Staff Union Complains of
Justice Delay
UK Says
Somalia Too Complex For Any UN Decision in a Month, South Africa
Disagrees
French
Ex-Minister Takes $1 UN Post, Says UNDP Should Release Audits, Will
Work with Google
A Week's
Exclusion from Google Raises UN-answered Questions
As UN Names
Decedent on South Lawn, Push-Back at Photos, Run-Around on Computer Job
Specifics
In Timor
Aftermath, No Answer on Reinado's Reported Letter to UN's Ban, Qazi
Takes No Questions
Lockheed
Rep on US Committee for UNDP, like UNICEF Germany, Raises
Conflict Questions Feb. 18, 2008
On Kosovo,
UN's Ban Takes Only Two Questions, then Rostrum Taken from Serbia Too
Feb. 18, 2008
Woman's Death
on UN Lawn Leaves Questions Unanswered, Photos Unexplained
Feb. 17, 2008, Abridged Feb. 20
On Kosovo,
UK Says "No Country" Supports Russia, Council President Says Some Do;
UNMIK's Ruecker Does Not Disclose Finances Feb.
17, 2008
UN Council
Convenes Haltingly on Kosovo, Interpreters Not Called
Feb. 17, 2008
Corpse
Removed from UN Lawn, Fell from High Story, Police Tight-Lipped
Feb. 17, 2008
UNDP's
Top Official for Africa Refuses Any Financial Disclosure, As
Burundi Cover-Up Is Dodged Feb.
16, 2008
As UN's
Guards Reportedly Beat a Somali MP, Peacekeeping Report Will Be One
Month Late Feb. 15, 2008
Focus on
General Assembly President's Finances Finds Floridian Dinners in
Naples, Latin Mysteries
Feb. 14, 2008
UN's
Malaria Envoy Ray Chambers Seeks to Avoid Conflicts of Interest, Was
Invited by WHO Feb. 14, 2008
At UN,
Financiers Talk Green, Petition SEC, Deny Subprime Links
Feb. 14, 2008
Waiting for
Kosovo, Russia Speaks of 200 Precedents, Serbia of State Secrets
Feb. 14, 2008
Google,
Asked at UN About Censorship, Moved to Censor the Questioner, Sources
Say, Blaming UNDP -
GAP statement Feb. 14, 2008
UN Has
List of Ban's Calls, But It Can't Be Seen, Only Guessed At, No Freedom
of Information Feb. 13, 2008
As Myanmar
Cracks Down, Some See Glass Half-Full, Do Not See Rambo IV or Financial
Disclosure Feb. 13, 2008
As
Australia Apologizes to its Indigenous, It Rushes Troops to Timor and
Seems Cheap on Climate Change Feb. 13, 2008
As Seas
Rise, Island States Look for Concrete Partners, Doubts on UN's Overhead
At UN,
Political Affairs Plan Slated to Shrink, Development Plan Missing,
Along with Budget Officials
While
UNICEF's Veneman Is Silent about Her Gucci Event, Publicist Named in
Indictment for Bribery
Sanctions on
Child Soldier Recruiters Debated at UN, Some Accused Question Report's
Fairness
UNICEF Pays
Consultants Up To $600 a Day, Its US Fund Twice That, Audits and
Veneman Still Withheld
In Timor
Leste, UN Police "Refused" to Help Horta, Decline to Answer Questions
UN's de
Boer Explains Bali Tears and Comma's Silent Impact, Branson Dodges,
Steiner's Secrecy
On
Climate Change's Margins, Biofuels Cause Food Price Rise for Poor,
Bloomberg and WFP Agree
Sudan Blocks
UN Peacekeeping Mission's E-mail Access, UN Remains Silent
At UN,
Eliasson Doesn't Follow or Disclose the Money, Kofi's Bug Out and Gaza
in Europe
UN's Lute
Admits No-Bid Lockheed Deal Caused "Confusion," No Conflict of Interest
of Iraq Overlap
One Congo
Warlord Arrested, Others Off the Hook, in Uganda and Sudan, ICC Silent
on Kenya
Gucci Event
Bent and Broke UN Rules, UNICEF's Veneman's Venom Toward the Press
WHO
Criticizes UN Acceptance of Tobacco Firms and Air Quality, Staff Union
Urges Smoke Detector Halt
UNICEF's
Dodging of Gucci Event Questions Mirrored by German Scandals, Veneman's
History
UN Says
Al-Bashir Is $500 Million Behind in Darfur Payments, Abuse Cut from
Kenya Statement
Gucci's Boast
that UN Event Celebrates Its Store Is Quietly Withdrawn, Questions
Remain
As Gucci Uses
UN for an Ad, Who Protects UN Left Unanswered by Ban Ki-moon
As UN Hears
Only One Side of Kenya Struggle, UK Claims Others to be Heard, UNDP's
Uses
At UN,
Ban Pleads for Financial Disclosure, While Compacts Question
Peacekeeping Split
Gucci's Use
of UN "Worries" Ban Ki-moon, May Not Attend Madonna Event Now, Staffer
Says
At UN,
Panamanian President Silent on Kosovo and Ashdown, as Somalia Is
Delayed, Sky Falls
UN
Officials' "Compacts," Withheld from Public, Skirt Issues of Security
and Procurement
At UN,
Peacekeeping Porn Alleged in W. Saharan Caves, Envoy Van Walsum Takes
Questions Indirectly
France Gets
Council OK to Support Chad's Deby as Military Advisor Stands By
Official
Calls Gucci's Use of UN Inappropriate, Sees Need for Madonna Inquiry,
UNICEF Silent
On Chad, UN in
Denial, then Abortive French Frenzy in Council, Echoes of Mad Max and
2006 Bomb
At UN,
34 Officials Have Not Filed Any Required Disclosure, Decisions Are
Outsourced to PwC
At
UN, Clooney Says In Lockheed No-Bid Darfur Deal Mistakes Were Made
Raiding
Malawi, UN's Gucci Event Costs $25,000 Per Table, One-Half to Madonna's
Kabbalah Center
At UN,
Clooney Puts Peacekeeping Abuses in the Past, Sports Obama Bracelet
UN Ethics
Office Too Busy for Disclosure, No Comment Yet on Whistleblower's Appeal
After
Algiers Bombing, UN to Appoint Algerian Ex-Minister Lakhdar Brahimi to
Investigate
UN
Advisor Kim's Wife Employed by S. Korean Mission, Envoy Larsen's Spouse
by Norway, No Disclosure
From Children
Charged with War Crimes to Whole Countries Left Out, UN's Coomaraswamy
On Conflict
At UN,
Troop Contributors Will Not Hear from Clooney, Said to Be Pro-Serb
Along with Sharon Stone
At One-Sided
UN Briefing on Kenya, UK Is Focused on Expressing Present Concern, Not
Past Responsibility
At UN,
Resistance to Financial Disclosure Ranges from Two Top Peacekeepers to
UNDP
Gaza
Statement Dies in UN Council, On What to Call the Rockets, Yet More
Debate to Follow
While
UN Discloses Deputy's Tobacco Rents, Others Officials Thumb Noses or
Remain Vague on Assets
On UN's
Gaza Statement, Now Libya's Against, As Iran Sanctions Annex Withheld
from Non-Perm Ten
UN Lets Gucci
Use Global Lawn to Celebrate a Store Opening, Madonna and VIPs in Tents
UN's
Liberia Mission Pays Eight Dollars a Day, Is Disappointed by Complaints
to the Press
In Eritrea,
UN Mission Is Running Out of Fuel, While Council Mulls Six More Months
of Staying
Senate
Report on UN Development Program Ignored and Scorned by UNDP's Board
On New Iran
Sanctions, China and the West May Disagree, on Travel Bans and Export
Credits
At UN,
Attempts to Inject Kidnapped Soldiers into Languishing Statement on
Gaza Blockade
Royal Bank of
Canada Conceals Layoffs and Fair Lending Response to Merger
Challenge
UN's Nepal
Envoy Dismissive of Protests, Says Child Soldiers Never Fought
Senate
Report Confirms North Korea Errors of UNDP While Letting Wider UN Off
the Hook
At UN,
Sniper Fire Added to New Gaza Draft Statement, UK As U.S. Negotiating
Proxy
UN Juggles
Jobs and Spoils, from NY to Geneva, Accountability Director Said Chosen
in Back Room
At UN,
Experts Change UK's Nepal Draft, UN's Role Clipped, Government's View
Enshrined
Buyers of
Blood Diamonds from Charles Taylor Won't Face Justice from UN's Sierra
Leone Court
At UN, No
Council Statement on Gaza Blockade, Which Libya Calls Attempt at
Genocide
As Scandals
Multiply, UN Development Program's Oversight Board of Sleeps Through
Speeches
Bunkerized
in Baghdad, UN Envoy de Mistura Dismisses Hiring Patterns
and Fijian Coup
At UN,
Ethics Office Rebuffs Whistleblower of UNDP's Diversion from Africa of
Environmental Funds
On Gaza,
Blame Game and the Politics of Questions at the UN, Including "Where's
Blair?"
At UN,
Clooney Announcement but No Answers on Darfur Nor Alliance of
Civilizations
UN's Lack
of Women in Iraq and Darfur, Sexual Abuse Cases Unanswered by UN Gender
Advisers
After
Botched Procurement in Burundi, UNDP Denied Documents to UK and Belgium
In Myanmar,
UK Is Major Investor in Oil and Gas While at UN Demanding No Business
As Usual
UN Puts On
Hold Proposed Transfer of Alleged Abuser of Staff to Chad Mission from
Pension Fund
UNDP Admits
Improper Housing Subsidy, Contracting with Vendor Barred for Bribery
In Kenya,
While EU Considers Conditions, UN's Aid May Be "Coordinated" by Mwai
Kibaki
UN's Kosovo
Mission Sings of Serbs' Freedom of Movement While Evasive on
Investigation
Algeria
Ignored Security Requests Prior to Bombing, UNDP's Dervis Says,
Insurance Unanswered
UNDP
Hamstrung by Scandals, Herfkens, Algiers, Insurance, Corimec, Kenya and
Pakistan
At UN,
Selective Happy Talk on Cote d'Ivoire Ignores Coulibaly Coup,
Peacekeeper Abuse Charges
UN's
Review of Algiers Bombing is Slow and Thus Far Secret, As Questions
Multiply
In Wake of
Kabul Bombing, UN Quickly Names the Target, While Key Staff Still
Excluded
UNDP Notes
but Ignores UN's Barring of Contractors for Bribery, Kenya and Poverty
Czar Updates
UN Council
Minces Words on Darfur Attack, "An Accident in Movement," Sudanese
Media Says
UN's Ban
Asks Nations For Resources, Some Say for Iraq, Commits to Think Through
Lockheed No-Bid Contract
At UN,
Phrasing of Concern for Lebanese Shepherd Breaks Logjam, Darfur Still
on Hold
Tony
Blair's UN Role May Conflict with New Job with JP Morgan Chase,
Subprime View of UN
Poverty
Czar at UNDP Herfkens Said to Accept $7000 a Month Rent from
Holland, Audits Cannot Be Copied
UN's
Investigator Ahlenius Just Starting In on Lockheed, Results to be
Confidential, Questions Unanswered
At UN,
Alleged Abuser Seeks Transfer from Pension Fund to Chad Peacekeeping
Mission
At UN, Darfur
Attack Is Said to Need Investigation, Politics of Statements on Lebanon
At the UN,
Ban's African Meeting Is Less than Transparent, Measurable Results
Remain to Be Seen
UN Backtracks
on Transparency While Official Who Pushed Lockheed Now Pushes George
Clooney
At UN, Council
Praises Dubious Chad Progress, Makes Deals on Darfur and Myanmar
UN's Ban
Asks for Investigative Power While Defending Lockheed Contract, Somalia
to the End
UN's Budget
Advisor Criticizes Lack of Planning, from No-Bid Contracts to Travel
Costs
On Myanmar,
EU's Envoy Supports UN's Soft Power Approach, "Laura Bush Is Not a
Mediator"
Behind UN
Afghan Exclusion, Tales of Big Money and the Hand of CIA
At UN,
Ban Assures Staff of Safety First, While Algiers Bombing Questions
Persist
At the UN,
Two Messages on Nuclear Korea, Chinese Call to Focus on Development
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