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In N. Sri
Lanka, 2,683 Civilian Killings This Year, UN Leaked Documents Show
UN's d'Escoto Supports Ban in
"Deadbeat-Gate," UNIC Fingered, Japan's Threats Defended
On
Myanmar, UN Official Predicts
April 18 Ban Visit, US Softens Too, Gas as Lubricant
In Madagascar, UN's Role In Protecting Rajoelina
Questioned, Who Is the "International Community"?
As UN Rights Expert Decries Sri Lankan Camps, OCHA
Funds Them, Of Recruitment
As
Sudan Moves Against NGOs, No UN Guidance,
IRC Spins, Principles Come Last
In DC, Obama Officials Defend
Bailouts of AIG and Citigroup, Summers Speaks of Fear
In North Korea, UN Declines To
Evacuate Its Staff, "Human Shields," Some Say
In DC, "Inevitable"
Fraud as Obama Jokes with JPM Chase, Meets Citi and ExxonMobil
As White House Chides UN's Ban,
Will "Deadbeat-Gate" Have Legs?
On Sri Lanka, IMF Says Its
Pending Loan Would "Support Government Goals"
U.S. "Deadbeat-Gate" Draws Midnight Clarification from UN's
Ban Ki-moon: He Said It, But...
UN's Ban on Capitol Hill
Grilled
about Reform, Praised as Hardworking, Darfur Raised
UN's Ban Meets with Obama, No
Pesky UN Press, Myanmar Convergence Described
With UN's Ban in DC, Procurement
Scandals Unanswered, No Protection by UN Security
In Sri Lanka, UN Still Withholds
Casualty Numbers, Funds Detention Camps
UN's Ban in DC Cedes Control to
Coverage, Of Closed Pools and White House Rules
In Darfur, UN Considers Hiring
Workers of Expelled NGOs, But Will More Be Thrown Out?
UN's Harston Removed from W.
Sahara As Quid Pro Quo for Van Walsum
On
Haiti, UN's Council and Ban Focus, Abuse and Mandate Questions
Unanswered
On N. Korea, UN's Ban Has No
Comment, No Control Over "UN Command," Planes Threatened
At UN, Printing Plant
Stroke Death and Ambulance Delay, Dangers Unmitigated
At UN, Council Meets on NGOs' Eviction
from Darfur, Bashir Indictment Freeze Requests
As UN Covers For Obama Climate
Backslide, It Does Not Carbon Offset, "Act Not Together"
On Sri Lanka, UN Notes
Starvation, Believes No Heavy Artillery in Use, Defers to Council's
Silence
UN Security and Capital
Master Plan Slammed for Bloat, Retaliation
Starts, Flooding
On NGOs in Khartoum, UN Is Not
Sure, Council to Meet Friday, No Legal Expertise
In Demoting Anna Tibaijuka, UN's
Ban Did Not Consult His Gender Advisor
UN Belatedly Admits It Still Gets
Satyam Services Through ICC, Cover-Up Alleged
At UN, Amid Sudan Indictment Hoopla,
Myanmar Follow-Up and Sri Lanka Forgotten
At UN, Spirulina's Pomp
Likened to Snake Oil, Obama and Clinton Links Played Up
As Sudan's Bashir is Indicted, Spin and Real Wars Begin at UN
and Beyond
In
UN Council, March Agenda Omits
Sri Lanka, UK Did Not Even Request, Libya Implies
UN's
Nairobi Snub of Africa and
Women Shows Planning Chaos, Audit Cover-up
UN Evades Satyam Questions,
Leaves ICC Loopholes, Uses and Defends the Past
UN Lawyer O'Brien Refuses
Questions on Cambodia Tribunal, Ignores Logo Misuse
In UN, Protests to Nairobi
Post Switch From Woman to Man, Gender Balance Comes Last
UN Peacekeeping, in Bashir
Run-Up, Pitches Haiti, Dodges Chad Fees and Lubanga
UN's Ban Hands Nairobi Office to
German, Union Protests, Pemba Sidelined
At UN, BASF Dodges W. Sahara
Phosphorus Fall-Out, Global Compact's PetroChina Denial
UN's Ban "Did Not Know of
Fowler" as Niger Envoy, Diplomat Says, Alleging Fraud
UN's Ban Moves to Switch Top
Nairobi Post from Tanzanian to German
At
UN, Greece's Bakoyannis Not Ready for Prime Time: Sri What?
On
Sri Lanka, UN Meeting Called One-Off, UK Makes No Proposals, Holmes
Differs from Ban
At UN, Council Belatedly Gets Sri
Lanka Briefing, "No Politics," Holmes Was Told
At UN, Sri Lanka Briefing Now Set
for Friday, As Editor Arrested in Colombo
On Sri Lanka, Requests for UN
Council Session Languish, Camp Questions Go Unanswered
In Congo, Civilians Bear the
Brunt as UN Attacks NGOs and Whistleblowing General
At UNDP, Selection Process Stays Secret, from Solomon Islands
to Sierra Leone, No Answers
As UN Bids Bye to Kumalo,
Susan Rice Starts Behind Closed Doors, Jackfruit Diplomacy
As Sri Lanka Ignores UN's Call
for Cessation of Hostilities, Detention Camps UNcommented On
As UN Pitches Wiretaps in
Guatemala, Bus Murders Unsolved, Bhutto Panel Not Filled Yet
At
UN, GlaxoSmithKline's Pricing
of AIDS Drugs Raised, Clintons Press Flesh
On
Sri Lanka, as UN's Ban Calls for "Suspension of Fighting," No Council
Meeting Yet
As Sri Lankan Army Toured UN's
Holmes, Questions Left Unanswered
On Sri Lanka, UK's for UN
Council Session Upon Holmes' Return, "Shocking," Robinson Calls It
On Myanmar, UN May Help 2010
Election Under Flawed Constitution, Rohingya Not Discussed
With UN's Holmes in Sri Lanka,
Government Supported, Staff Scared, Deaths Uncommented On
UN Security Brass Let Off Hook on
Fowler, On Promotions, Investigation Called For
In UN Council, "No Strong
Request" Anymore for Sri Lanka Meeting, Japan's Mediation Results
In Sri Lanka, Civilians Deaths
Counted at 1898 by Locals, UN Refuse to Estimate
On Congo, US Role Avoided
as Austria Pushes Call for
Planning Past France, UK and Uganda
In Sri Lanka, UN Has Casualty
Estimate But Won't Release, No Cease Fire Call
As UN Makes Play for Bailout
Funds, Currency Exchange Losses to Dictators Undermine Its Pitch
(updated Feb. 23)
At UN, Chad's Attempt to Re-Rent Peacekeepers' Air Strips
Covered Up in Council
At UN, Russia Maintains Sri Lanka
Issues Not in Council, UK Disagrees But Does Not Act
On Georgia, Behind the UN's Word
Games, Russia Bases Approach, What Will Obama Do?
UN's Congo Mission Critiqued by
General, UN Fires Back, Blames the USA, ICC Follies
At UN, Merkel's Economic Proposal
Absent, Dreams of UN Credibility, Sevan
On Sri Lanka, Still No UN Cease
Fire Call, UNICEF is Blocked, Japan Presence Wasted
As Thailand Admits Sea-Dump of
Rohingya, UN Hasn't Studied as Trafficking, Costa in Uganda
As UN Chiefs Sign Contracts, Only
Some Can See Them, Transparency Still Lacking
Sudan Pre-Indictment Frenzy at
UN, Gun-Jumping by Ocampo Alleged, AU in Town
UN Mistakes Sri Lanka for
Zimbabwe, Access to Vanni Doubtful, UNICEF No Comment Yet
UNDP Advisor Serves Lobbyist for
Nigeria, No Comment on Niger Driver Missing
On Darfur, Libya Vows Opposition to UK Draft, ICC
Celebrated with Beer
UN's Ban Defends Lack of Sri Lanka Ceasefire Call,
Misunderstands His Powers
Darfur Statement Blocked in UN Council By
Bashir Indictment Language
UN's Ban Prepares for a "No" from Obama, Dialogue Except in
Sri Lanka
Subprime Non-Bank Lenders Ask
Obama and Geithner for Bailout, in Guise of Stimulus
For
UNDP Top Post, UNICEF's Hilde
Johnson, Kiwi Clark or Oil Man Akram
Abkhaz on UN Agenda But Not Yet
in UN, Russia and Ossetians and Kebabs for Iran
UN Secretariat Says Tamils Held
by "Force, Fear or Family," Monitoring of Camps Suggested
UN's Ban Names Ian Martin on Gaza Bombings, Munoz on Bhutto
Killing
In UN Council, Japan Works on Sri
Lanka Issue, "Ongoing Engagement of UN"
At UN, Ban Plans Climate Meet
in March with Obama, Africa Trip Awaits Rice, Lights Out
UN Has No Answers in Myanmar or
N. Korea, Peacekeeping Losses from Poland
At UN Security, Prefixed
Promotions, Whistleblowers' Dog Days
As Somalis Are Killed by
Peacekeepers, Censorship Urged by UN's Ould Abdallah
Challenged on Gaza School Bombing
Story, UN Attacks the Press, Confirms Staff Strike
At UN on Sri Lanka, Russia
Blocked Mexican Request for Briefing, Ban's Contradiction
On Sri Lanka, UN Won't Confirm its Own Reports or Call for
Ceasefire
Murky Water Conference in UN, Ban Panned, Suez in the House
UN Accused of Inaction As LRA
Kills in Congo, Denies But Without Specifics, No Bosco
After Bailout, ING's Kok Blames Regulators, Food Inflation
and Social Inclusion Questioned
As UN Plans $100 Million Bunker
in Iraq, UNrest in Haiti and Cote d'Ivoire
At UN, Japan's Month Starts with
N. Korea Confusion, Somalia Short Shrift, Seikos
With UN's Gambari In Myanmar, Than Shwe and His Money Not
Questioned
As Taylor
Case Winds
Down, Africa-Only Focus Clouds ICC's Future
UN's Rehab Plan Might Drive Press
Out, From Bid Openings to Cost Overruns
UN Abductions in Pakistan, Like Fowler's
in Niger, Shrouded in Security Cover-Up
Banker Allison of BB&T
in Meltdown Misdirection, Subprime Loans Were Shielded
As N. Korea Breaks With
South, US and Japan React, UN's Ban Has No Comment
Some Gaza Victim Swept UNder the
Rug, UN Date Bars Not in Data Base
Under Ban, UNDP
Short List Not Public, Of Pirated Computers in Albania
UN's Gambari Not Sure to Meet
Than Shwe, Myanmar Refugees Sold Out as Courtesy
With UN Silent on Fowler, Ambassador
Whispers, "He's Alive" in Niger
At UN, of Somalia and Sandwiches,
Susan Rice at France's Shindig
At UNDP, Ad Melkert Grabs for Top Post, Opposes Disclosure,
Like Mattsson Retaliates
UNHCR Fundraiser von Praag's
Departure Presaged by Irregularities, Staff Complaints
At UN, Arab Commission for Human
Rights Out for Year in 18-0-1 Vote, Member List Demanded
UN Dodges on Sri Lanka and Congo,
Burma, Kosovo and Afghanistan
As Bolivia Votes, Questions of Gaza, Treason and
"Dishonorable" Media, Indigenous on Move
As UN Buzzes for Rice, Taste
Tester Kornblau Said To Be in Wings, Congo Questions Boil
UN Bans Propaganda, Then Refuses
to Take Questions, Crackdown in Gaza's Wake?
As UN's Ban Meets Sri Lankan
Enforcer, His Has Eyes on S. Korea, Nambiar As Malloch?
At UN, Algeria's NGO Complaint Processed
in Secret, Vote Set for Wednesday
At UN, Protest of Staff Union
Under Team Ban's Watchful Eye, Scripted Town Hall Revealed
At UN, Algeria Seeks Ouster of "Terrorist" NGO, Secret
Complaint Withheld by UN
UN in Gaza Was Quiet on Aid
Suspension, 10 Million Little Dollars
At UN, As Sudan Heads G-77, Ban
Offers Praise Despite War Crimes
As JPMorgan Chase Shutters WaMu
Branches, Regulators Missing, Commitments Gone
UN Agency Tests Terror with
Microsoft and Kennedy, UN FOIA Called For But Denied
With Ban Ki-Moot Mute, Obama's US Nixes Gaza Investigation Cite in UN Council
Planet UN, Filmed in a Parallel
Universe, Awaits Spiderman Rescue from Critics
In Congo, UN Blocked from
Civilian Protection, Bosco in the Mix, UK Hears Nothing
As Olmert Brags of UN's Rocket
Focus, Ban Loses Voice, Jordan Truck Said Missing
Behind Bank of America's Toxic Assets, Subprime Links
Obscured But Continued
In Gaza, UN's Ban Meets Staff, Ging Sings for
Supper, Holmes to Strip
At UN, Obama Inauguration Causes Work Halt, Jokes, More
Gaza Confusion
Under Obama, UN's Pascoe May Stay, UNICEF's
Veneman Not, Consultant Hired
As UNOPS Wants New Posts, Hides
Procurement Audit and Mattsson's Disclosure
As UN and Ban Are Booed, Buck is Passed But Not to
Gaza, Phosphorus Facts Promised
At
UN, Algeria's Complaint
Against
NGO Draws US Request for Delay
UNDP Moved on 30,000 Boxes of Records
Mid-Investigation, Dervis' Successor Must Answer
At UN, Egypt's Gaza Text Beats Ecuador's, Bombing Continues,
No Vote for Cape Verde
With Gaza Still Shelled, Egypt
Keeps Out Doctors, Fatah Complains of Cash
Bombed in Gaza, UN is Banquished,
White Phosphorous at its Door
At UN Group on Pirates Meets, Surrender is Advised,
Somalia Abandoned
Fed's Geithner Evaded
Taxes at IMF, Used Statute of Limitations Later, Mishanded Citigroup
UN Belatedly Suspends Indian Enron Satyam, Puts
Contracts Under Assessment
UN Blocks Access to Free Gaza Movement's Website,
GA Jan. 15 Gaza Meeting Set
In Gaza, While UN is Cashless Hamas Meets Its
Payroll, Ging Says, AbuZayd in Norway
At UN, Outgoing Khalilzad
Quieter on Congo and Reform, the
Price of Being Well-Liked?
In UN's Capital Master Plan, Skanska Bid
Event Is Closed to Press
UN Council Passes Compromise Gaza Resolution,
US Abstains, Withdrawal Unclear
At UNDP, Dervis' Desires, Scandals and Silence
Recalled As He Departs
Israel Protests General Assembly Meeting on Gaza,
Which Is Then Postponed
From Sulfur to Formaldehyde, Latin Smells at UN as
D'Escoto Calls Gaza Meeting
At UN, Libya's Naming of Hamas Had Latin Roots,
Cracks in EU
At UN, New Gaza Draft Resolutions Emerge, Condi Will Be Back,
D'Escoto
Plans a Meeting
On Gaza, Egypt Breaks Law, Say UNHCR and Holmes, Serry
Defends, is Puzzled
On Gaza at UN, Western Placeholder Statement
Competes with Libyan Resolution
At UN, As Norway Speaks on Gaza, Roed-Larsen Evades
Financial Disclosure and GA Critique
UN Facility Had Hamas Members, Israel Claims, But Not
Armed, UN Says
With Gaza
Schools As Targets, Theater in UN
Council, Protests in the Streets
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
From January to October 2008 the headlines are not here -- but all
articles remain online, "Google-able"
UN's Darfur
Contract with Lockheed Troubles General Assembly, Of Coded Cables and
Copters
At UN, Tales
of Ban Ki-moon and the U.S. Trigger Concern from Developing World
After
Bhutto's Killing, UN Statements Watered Down, Omitting Need for Speed
and Law
To Speak or
Not with Taliban, Behind Karzai's UN Expulsion, Its Don't Ask, Don't
Tell Policy
In
Uzbekistan, UN Development Program Abandons Local Hire to Torture by
Karimov, Now Reelected
U.S. Opposes
UN Budget, Which Passes Assembly 142-1, Mr. Ban into the Dawn
At UN, Late
Night Attempts to Change U.S. Budget Vote, Some Durban II Abstentions
Surprise
UN Budget
Approved, 141 versus U.S., in Committee Vote, Durban II Opposed by 40
UN Budget
Deal Hits Durban Conference Hurdle, $4.6 Billion Blocked by $6.7 Million
UN Budget
Deal Said Reached, Numbers Crunched for Committee Vote Before Midnight
At UN,
Proposed Budget Cuts Grow Deeper, Baghdad and Corruption Put Off to
Spring
At UN,
Budget May Cut Iraq and Conference Funding, Corruption Issues Raised, a
Snapshot
In Darfur,
UN Will Have Barely 9000 Troops at Hand-Over, Of Drills and 21 Copter
Mystery
At UN,
Official Sent to Rebut Scandal Declines Lockheed Questions, Confirms
Toh Job
As UN
Budget Deadline Looms, GA President Predicts Its Passage, US Will Not
Predict
UN Split on
Kosovo As Precedent, Russia Speaks of Shockwaves and China of Disaster
Algiers UN
Bombing Commemorated in NY, Silent Walk and Finger Pointing
UN Budget
"Can't Be Christmas Tree," Says US, Deal in Principle Predicted for
December 21
Behind
Tuesday's UN Corruption Story, Kid-Gloves on Americans, Lockheed's
No-Bid Contract
As UN's Iraq
Resolution Passes Bombs Drop, UK Leaves and Oil's Still Unmetered
Behind
Death Penalty Moratorium Vote at UN, Lunches with Dictators, Cities for
Life
UN Envoy
Declines to Criticize Myanmar, Says Corporations Should Check With
Global Compact
Post-Bali, UN
Blames China for Breakdown of de Boer, Mr. Ban's Game Face Described
At UN,
Budget Games Stretch from Baghdad to Basement, Procurement Task Force
Down to Wire
As Turkey
Bombs Iraq, Not Even Raised in Security Council, UN Baghdad Budget
Introduced
At UN, Of
Ice Bridges and Electricity Bills, Bali Read-Out Eschewed by Ad Melkert
At UN,
Chinese Painting Mirrors Quiet Council Role, Carrying Veto for Sudan,
Leaving Blank Space
At UN,
Reticence to Vote Confines Kosovo to Private Meeting, No Room for
Transparency
At UN,
Darfur No-Bid Contract to Lockheed and Budget Confined to Secret
Meetings
UNICEF's Work
Includes Giving Voice to Children, Staying Silent in Sri Lanka
CERF Fund at UN
Gave Cyclone Funding in Five Days, Built a Bunker in Somalia
As Carrion
Downshifts to Race for NYC Comptroller, Human Rights Disinvestment
Balanced by Returns
At UN,
Deadlock Even on Format of Kosovo Meeting on Dec. 19, Croatia Joins a
Council in Chaos
UN Budget
Defended by UK, While U.S. Hardball Links Justice to Procurement Task
Force
As Congo Chaos
Spreads, Council Questions UN's Military Role, Behind Closed Doors
US Talk on
UN Budget Called Transparent by Some, Maligned by Others
In UN Ag
Tech Spat, Israel Calls "Shameful" Abstention by S. Africa, Which Feels
Singled Out
At UN, Del
Ponte "Stupified" by UNMIK's Support for Haradinaj, Dodges UN's
Srebrenica Role
At UN,
Cartoons For Human Rights Exclude Denmark, Ban on Gifts Unless Given to
S-G
At UN, Tour
Guides Return to Work As Job Action Results in Concessions After
Cocktails
Darfur War
Crimes Statement Dies In Security Council, Called "Gutted" and Not
Needed
In Burundi, FNL
Dissenters Are "Alleged," UNICEF Ready for Child Soldiers, Silent on
Sri Lanka
As UN's Ban
Heads to Bali, Caps on Greenhouse Gas by Poorer Countries is the
Question
In Wake of UN
Tour Guides' Sick-Out, Working Group Set Up With Union Leaders Excluded
At UN,
Somalis Plight Discussed Without Action, Problematic Biscuits and
Nkunda's Rwandan Sojourn
At UN, Tour
Guides Go On Strike, World Body's Labor Double Standards Protested
Behind
Lockheed's No-Bid UN Contract, Condi Rice and UN's Guehenno in Late 2006
At UN, Italian
Jazz and Off-the-Record Stylings As Labor Unrest Looms
All Five of
UN Court's Criminal Case Are in Africa, Myanmar's Not a Member
At UN, Terrorism
Remains Undefined, Tensions Explain 3 Month Mandate Extension
UN Security
Council Is Too "Overstretched," President Admits, For No-Bid Contracts,
Aid Blocks
As UN Creates
Separate Fiefdoms of Ethics, U.S. Declares Victory on Appeal Rights
As Myanmar
Ousts UN's Petrie, And Protests Are Called Trivial, Time Has Come to
Speak
UN Ethics
System Formalized But in Fragments, Whistleblowers in Wilderness of
Fiefdoms
UN Confirms
Lockheed's Contracts of $36 Million in Congo, $250 M in Darfur,
Questions Multiply
At UN,
Gun-Jumping on Annapolis Resolution While Kosovo Clock Ticks
War Criminals
Discussed at UN, Uganda and Somalia Outshined by Darfur
At UN,
Abkhazia IDPs Urged to Cite Precedents While Kosovo Is Distinguished
On Road to
Bali, Kyoto Protocol Under Fire, UN's Ban Defends from NGO, not UNDP
UN's
No-Bid Contractor in Darfur an "Inside Job," Ex-Auditor Says, Congo
Dodges
EU's Solana
Admits Chad Force Delay, UK Does Not Want to Pay
At UN's
DESA, Still No Accountability for Faked Work of Greek Center, New Chief
Says
At the UN,
Budgets Pass Midnight, on Darfur and Gut Rehab, Tales of 5th and ACABQ
As Darfur
Is Debated at UN, Lockheed No-Bid Contract Questions Dodged
As India and
Experts Criticize UNDP on Climate, It Shuts Computer Access
Lockheed
Unit Given No-Bid UN Contract in Darfur Reneged on Congo Air Bid, Memos
Show
UN's
Somalia Arms Embargo Reporting Fiasco Cries Out for Reform, Experts Say
At UN,
Silence on Sri Lanka and Congo Accusation Toilet Taboos Broken with
Champagne
First Congo
Trial of ICC Will be Test Case, While Child-Conscriptor Karim Remains
Free
On UN's
No-Bid Lockheed Contract, Russia Demands Investigation, Why Council
Misled
On UN
Accountability, Many Words But Few Answers, "Growing Mistrust" Noted
As UNICEF
Fetes Ex-Child Soldier, Not Clear How Recruiters Are Pursued, Chad
Update
At UN,
Targeting of Civilians Decried, Cluster Munitions Defended, NGO List
Clarified
UN's
Budget Committee Hits No-Bid Lockheed Contract for Darfur, Demands
Documents
At UN, No
"Coalition of the Willing" for Somalia, as Body Count Continues to Rise
Spinning
Belarus, UNDP Downplays Chernobyl and Human Rights Concerns
UN Development
Program No-Bid Contracts for Computer Clean Up on Eve of Accountability
Seminar
Scaled-Back
Rebuilding of Aceh Raises Issues of Shari'a and Trust Funds, Even One UN
UN
Humanitarian Chief Gets Visa Lesson, Unaware of NGO List in Chad
Aftermath
Headed to
Beijing, UN's Peacekeeping Chief Dodges on Darfur Pilots and Post-Coup
Fiji
In DC,
Bush to Discuss Sudan with Salva Kiir, Senators Push to Scrutinize UN
Funds
In DC,
Predatory Lending Bill Draws Doubt from Consumers, Praise from Brokers
UN Backslides
on Fix-Up Commitments, Bloomberg Repeats Threat to Cease School Visits
At UN,
Chissano Downplays Roles of Otti in LRA and NGOs in Peace, Opines on ICC
At UN,
Lessons Not Learned in Chad Kidnapping Case, Refugee Agency on Nepal
But Not India
UN
Controller Called No-Bid Darfur Contracts a "Troubling Pattern," PAE in
Congo
UN's Contractor
Sued by MIT for Leaks, While UN Management Dodges Leaks
UN's Ban
Jokes of Eco-Tour, Heads Without Carbon Off-Setting to Biofuels Debate
in Brazil
At UN,
Bolton Decries Slow Pace of Reform, Promotes His Book, Tells Japan to
Write Its Own
At UN, of
Lebanon Camps and Bases, Mis-use of Schools and Rights Council,
Activist Charged
UN Denies
Expanding Kosovo Investigation, of Hard Drives in New York
UN Management
Seeks to Block Access to Justice, While Achievements Seem Few
UN
Diplomats Contest Congestion Pricing, Cuba Out of Princeton, Ticket
Number Down
At the UN, What
Safeguards Prevent Assisting Child Traffickers Raised by Chad Case
NATO
Staff Designed Lockheed's No-Bid UN Contract, French and Legal
Questions Arise
At UN, In
Budget Boost for Preventative Diplomacy Some Questions Are Sidestepped
At UN, Salva
Kiir Speaks on Sudan, Uganda and LRA's Otti Mystery
In UN
Security Council, Silence on Pakistan and PKK Raids, Copter Crash and
Georgia
As Death
Penalty Issue Heats Up, Ban and Annan Compared, as World Bankers on Poor
UN Tells
Darfur Rebels To "Get It Together," Despite
Qaddafi and Lockheed's No-Bid Contract
Behind
Lockheed's No-Bid UN Contract, State Department Timing, DynCorp, Dissent
UN Global
Compact Hard Pressed to Raise Its Standards, But Deigns to Answer
Questions
In Liberia,
UN Staff Complain of Disparities in Promotions, Silence from Field
Support
Cisco Talks
on Poverty While Getting Sole Source UN Contracts, Ban on Audits and
UNDP
UN Reforms Still
"Disappointing," Secret Audits and also No-Bid Contracts Blamed
UN Omits
Ban's Answers From Transcript, Questions Raised by Accident
At UN,
Near-Snuff Film of Russian Peacekeepers in Georgia, Helicopter Murky
Western
Sahara Debated Without Plug Being Pulled, Taking Note of Bolton
UNDP
Leases Ten Room for Tony For $1.3 Million, Cash From Norway and DFID
Not In Hand
In
Pakistan, UNDP Awards No-Bid Contract For Disputed Election, UN Dodges
Questions
Bolton
Memoir Settles Scores, Dishes Dirt, Ignores Kosovo and Uganda
UN Grants
Chief in Manila Gives to NGO She Founded, No Action Taken, UN-Reformed
At UN, Human
Rights Photos Amid the Canapes, Stories of Watches on Display
UN Under
Fire From Its Experts, on Torture, Executions and Peacekeeping Standards
In Kosovo,
UN in Dirty Coal and Business, Ridge Global
Lockheed
Shifts Risks to UN in its No-Bid Darfur Contract, Yet To Be Disclosed
At UN,
Budget Flux Amid Claims of Transparency, Favoritism Called Minor, FOIA
On Its Way
At UN,
Darfur No-Bid Contract Spun by UK, Chad and Somalia Preemptively Bid Out
UNICEF India
Chief Faces Sexual Assault Charge, Fired Whistleblower Barred From
Ethics Office
In Burma, UN
Envoy Sees Saffron But No Revolution, No Kiev in Myanmar
As UN
Spins "Expectations" For Darfur Talks, No-Bid Lockheed Contract
Unaddressed
Restricted
Access in N. Korea is Downplayed by WFP's Sheeran Shiner, Silent on
Audits
As UN
Worker Released in Mogadishu, UN Transcript Deletes Word "Bail"
At UN, Turf
War About Rape, Slow on Gender and N. Korea UNDP Audit
At UN,
Kazakh Ambassador Serves Cheney Film and Lamb, Stakes Claim as Diplomat
At UN,
Montreal's $2.2 Billion Proposal Disappears, Bookstore Ban and Questions
At UN,
France Holds Ivorian Pen Through Murky Splitting of Council Pie,
Drafters Rule
At UN, Ire at
Report of Family Ties In Iraq Staffing, Ivorian Mistura, Lunching with
Bertucci
UN
Retracts Claim Sudan "Approved" Lockheed's No-Bid Contract, Toh
Headline Changed
UN Management
Is Disarray, No Defense for "Useless" Report, Unexplained Travel
At the UN,
Two Days for the Poor Include French Carpet Sweeping, Potato's Year
UN Now
Will Not Disclose Its No-Bid Lockheed Contract, But Summarizes, Toh Jam
At UNICEF,
Child Soldiers Counted But Not Reported, Karim like Kony Falls Through
Political Crack
"Darfur
Now" is Full of Cheadle, Director Chides UN's Paralysis by Complexity
At the UN, of
Syrian CDs and Hasty Re-Translations, Mysterious Maps of Concentration
Camps
While Dodging
Africa Questions, UNDP Builds Breakaway Ethics Regime, Conceals Audits
UN's Ban
Vows Transparency, After Lockheed Gets $250M Sole-Source Darfur Contract
In
Afghanistan, UN's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Taliban Approach, Mortgages
on the Horizon
At the UN,
Warhead Reduction Pitched by U.S. While Replacement Warhead "Sketchy"
At the UN,
Georgia Speaks of Russians with AK-47s, Russia Speaks of Rust
For Darfur,
Lockheed Martin Gets UN Sole Source Contract, Questions Raised
At the UN, Job
Favors Cloud Management Audit, Issues Rise to 38th Floor
On
Myanmar, France's Total Conflict, China's Hedged Bet, Zimbabwe
Precedent for S. Africa
UN Renovation
Plan to Be Speeded Up, $150 Million More in Relocation Costs
UN Quiet About
Being Gagged, from Sri Lanka to Burma, Does Silence Equal Consent?
For Darfur
Force, No Western Copter Pilots, Mauritania's Offer Deemed Late, Sudan
Says
UN's
Myanmar Response Muffled, "No New Needs," Weakened Council Statement,
Seeming Cover-Up
At the UN,
Arms Trade Treaty Pitched, While UN Role in Congo Gold and Guns Is Murky
UN Lacks
Aircraft for Darfur But Won't Say Why, Troop Numbers Murky, Dictators
Not So Bad
At the UN,
Georgian Minister Says More Missiles May Come, Black Sea Vacations
Offered
At the UN,
Pataki Dodges Burma and Bruno, Demarches and What's In a Name?
UN's Gambari
Saw No Monks, Fled Staged Rally, Myanmar Threat Question Dodged
At the UN, Job
Favors Asked and Given between Management and Investigator, E-mails Show
On
Myanmar, UN's Gambari Describes His Tourism-for-a-Cause, Are Killings
and Protests a Threat?
Iran's Mottaki
Opposes Talks with Taliban, UNDP Ties Beyond Karzai Are Unclear
At UN,
Muted Support for UNDP Worker Arrested in Myanmar, "Unacceptable,"
Staff Says
At UN, Ban's
Hands-Off Approach to UNDP, on Ethics Office and Audits, Draws Criticism
On
Myanmar at UN, Moves to Keep Envoy's Report Secret, Seizure of UN Staff
Triggers Letter
As UN General
Debate Ends, Tale of the Tape, Broken Mikes and Promises -- and World
Peace?
Abuse by
UNDP's Philippines Coordinator Raised to Ban Ki-moon by Human Rights
Groups
UN's
Delayed Response to Darfur Attack Flashes Back to Spanish Subway,
Ghana's Coming Month
North Korea Does
Not Need UN Mediation or Money, Auditors Kept Out, Minister Choe Says
Myanmar
Funders Through UNDP Include Japan, UK, Australia and Italy, Records
Show
In Myanmar,
UN Envoy's Tourism for a Cause, "Not a Popular Uprising," UN Rapporteur
Says
At UN, No
Agreed Statement on Darfur Peacekeepers' Deaths, Senegal's Warning Goes
Unheard
UN's "Partnership
for Democratic Governance" Vaguely Launched, Rwanda's Questions
Unanswered
Arab League
Supports "IGAD" Force in Somalia, On Darfur Serious if UN Rejects
Egyptian Troops
At the UN,
Ministers Gone Wild, A Week of Dips on the Mic™ About Burma But Not
Somalia
Rwanda's Kagame
Refutes UNDP Report and Criticism of Darfur General, on Stakeout
Technique
At UN,
Cypriot President on Ships to Syria from Famagusta, "Illegal Ghost
City," Raises Questions
Big Eyes Over
the Railing, Kouchner on Burma, on War, on the Press, Gbagbo and Lebanon
On Myanmar,
'Saffron Revolution' Triggers UN Gambari's Night Flight, Soft Talk in
the Council
Sri Lanka's
UN Delegation of 39 "Feels Invisible," Of Child Soldiers, Aid Workers,
and MIG-27 Jets
At the UN,
Exclusions by Sarkozy and Ahmadinejad Trigger Questions
UNDP's
Dervis Plans to Take No Questions, Karzai and Answers Never Come,
Afghan Law Explained
UN's Ivorian
Envoy Chosen Monday by Ban and Gbagbo, "Non-African Troops Should Leave"
On Darfur,
Sudan Complains of UN Rejecting African Troops, While Italy Calls for
Somalia Cooperation
Zapatero of
Spain, Donor to UNDP, Calls for Transparency, While UNDP Cashes the
Checks
Amid US' Nick
Burns' Tough Talk on Iran, Ahmadinejad Laughs At UN Press Conference
At UN,
Sarkozy Excludes Reporters Without French Passports, Tries African
Photo-Op
UN's Big Day
Begins with Bagels and Barricades, the O.J. of this G.A. is Iran's
President
At the UN's
Climate Change Event, "False Dichotomy" on Coal, Bush Presented as
Supportive
At the UN, the
Waves of Bush and Sarko at Mr. Ban's Stakeout, Of Blogs and Carbon
Offsetting
On Climate
Change, UN's Africa Project Triggers Complaint Which UNDP Refuses to
Address
UN's Iraq
Meeting Ends with Whimper, Wiesel Breathes Fire, Work and Japanese,
Junkets Abound
UN's Global
Warming Summit May Yet Offset Emissions, "Coal Is Here to Stay," UN's
de Boer Says
At UN on
Darfur, War Crimes Go Virtually Unmentioned, Rebel Noor May Face
Sanctions
In Afghanistan,
UN Discourages Blackwater and Proselytizing, Had "No Role" in Hostages'
Release
Shootout in
Abkhazia Triggers Georgian Accusations, Missile Mystery Will Rise Again
At UN,
Human Rights in Somalia Downplayed, Treaties on Disabilities and Women
Pitched, Despite Congo
On
Myanmar, UN's Gambari's On the Run, While Khalilzad of U.S. Calls the
Regime a Scam
In the UN, Of
General Assembly Meetings Closed and Ethics Office Fixes Unclear at UNDP
On Africa Telecom,
ITU Explains Somalia While Charging $100,000 for Access to Heads of
State
ICC's Ocampo On
Darfur but not Uganda, Asserts Jurisdiction over U.S. But For Its Veto
At UN,
Trafficking Film "Trade" Outshines $5000 Paella Over the East River
UN's Legal
Chief Dodges Questions of Cambodia and King, After An Hour on Lebanon
At the UN,
Afghanistan and Ships from Japan in Abe's Wake Debated in the Shadows
General
Assembly President Dodges Questions about Ethics Office, While Talking
One UN
For Iraqi
Refugees, UN's Ban Says There's Moral Obligation, But Not By Whom
UN Global
Environment Fund Whistleblower Complains to World Bank and
Secretary-General
At UN,
Quiet End to War Crimes Review, Those Owing Dues Including Liberia and
Tajikistan
UN Ethics
Office Becomes "Rigged for Retaliators," New Memo Reflects
At UN's
Ban's Housewarming, Global Warming, Eel Sushi, A Showing by UN's
Breakaway UNDP
At the UN,
Belated Focus on Under-Investment in Africa, UNDP's Redlining
At the UN, $5000
for Dinner and a Movie, Trade, Finger Foods and Fingerprints Taken
At the UN,
Syrian Airspace Fireworks Recall Georgia Missile Crisis, France Bags
Gbagbo?
At the UN,
Declaration of Rights for Indigenous First Nations Passes Despite First
World Opposition
At UNDP,
Path to Reform Murky, By Design
In Burundi,
FNL Rebels Decry Lack of Resources While UN Speaks of Political Will
UN's Holmes Tells
Harrowing Congo Tales, Reporters Referred to FDLR's Mission in NY
UNDP Fires
At Whistleblower, Shoots Own Foot, Demotion of Memo's Author Ignored
UN's Ban
Defers on Human Rights, But Not on Climate Change, UN Charter Put In
Question
As
Fed Releases Mortgage Study, Subprime
Disparities Worsen at Citigroup, HSBC, Wells
At UNDP,
Memo-Writer Retaliated Against, Panel's Dervis Connections, Senegalese
Surprise
UN's African
Office, Like Elder, on Life Support, Radio Okapi Complaint Left
Unaddressed
At the UN, Mike
Gravel on Kososo and Blowback and Presidential Fitness
UNDP's Dervis
Foretells New Panel's Findings, Whistleblowers Left Exposed,
Development Mis-served
Back at the
UN, Ban Ki-moon Addresses Darfur and Ethics Office Questions,
Clarifications
From
Turkey, A Whistleblower's Tale Brings Ethics Issue Closer to Home for
UN and UNDP's Dervis
At UNDP Meeting,
Dervis Talks of Transparency While Fleeing the Press' Questions,
Propaganda
At the
UN, Errors in Promises of Whistleblower Protection Go Uncorrected,
Shooting Messengers
In Liberia, UN
Mission Does Not Recognize Union or Diamond Distributive Justice
At the
UN, Tentative Deal for Indigenous Rights, Once Member States'
Sovereignty Enshrined
UN's Congo Force
Commander Dodges Reports of Gold Smuggling Involvement, Carries Ammo in
the Kivus
At UN, Ban's
Chief of Staff Told Congress to Rely on Ethics Office, Jurisdiction
Dodged A Month Later Click here for Nambiar's letter
In the UN,
Oversight Is Undermined by Funded Relocation of Jobs, Fishy in Denmark
UNIFIL
Commander Vague on Frequency Inhibitors and German Ship Costs, Denies
Hezbollah Protection
On Myanmar,
UN's Gambari Defends Ban's (Very) Soft Ear, Believes in Oil Company
Morals
In Dakar,
More Retaliation by UN Development Program, Climate Change Used for
Sole Source Contracts - Click here
for exclusive copy of Koumoin
letter to UN Ethics Office
Double-Dipping
on Jamous, Spinning on a Plane, Team Ban in Sudan,
Answerless in New York
While ILO Talks
Productivity, Strikers at UN Congo Mission Ask if Labor Rights Begin at
Home
While Vague on
Viennese Climate Change Results, UN Will Offset Emissions in September,
Donor Undefined
With Subprime
Hot Air in DC, Cold-Blooded Citigroup Buys Ameriquest
Blair's
Office Procured with No-Bid $1 Million by UNDP, Whose Retaliation is
Decried by UN Staff Federation
At UN, After
Five Days Silent With Nerve Gas, Belated Spin and Returns from Turin
Ban's
Turin Retreat Light on Reform, Heavy on Praise of UN by Outsiders
Invited to "Non-Public" Event
At the UN,
When the Nerve Agent's Been Removed, It's Back to Business As Usual,
Un-Inspected
At UN,
Russia's Claim to North Pole Seabed Is Set Forth, Murky Allegiances of
Commission Members
Unnerved at
the UN, Poison Phosgene Discovered, Portending Calls for Inspections by
Safety Agents
Ban's Silent
Diplomacy is Also Secret, Like Search for Sudan's Water, Blair's UNDP
Link, Turin Shrouded
UN Staff
Council Votes to Tell Ban to Make UNDP's Dervis Accept Ethics Office,
Stop "Culture of Impunity"
In Ban's UN, Few
Answers Amid Speeches on Conflict Prevention in Africa, Non-Council
Members Speak
Corruption
Allegations in UN in Beirut, IIIC and ESCWA, Not Addressed by Ban
Ki-moon, Shrouded in Turin
While Ban
Calls UNDP Review Independent, Dervis Chooses Investigator List,
Documents Show
UN's Ban
Claims Credit for Korean Hostages' Release, While Careful on
Sovereignty and Sudan, Which Questions to Take
In UN's Chad
Preparations, Mystery of Tiger Team Dodged by France, Reverberates in
Near-Empty Council
At the UN, No
Answers on Sudan's Kalma Camp and UNDP's Rogue Res-Rep in Philippines
Bosnia's Zeljko
Komsic Compares Darfur to Srebrenica, Studies in UN Inaction on Genocide
In Chad,
Leaked Memos Show UN Worries about Funding, Which Camps to Protect,
Keeping Up with EU
At
the UN, Moves to Rename West Bank, Dodge Questions on Sudan, Rwanda and
Tony Blair's Costs
At the UN,
the Story of Five Seconds of Silence, Fixing Russian Misinterpretation
(updated
Aug. 29)
UNESCO Has No
Comment on Crackdown on New Media, Fraud in Guyana, Banned Moroccan
Spoof
As Mogadishu
Mayor Says to Let Displaced Children Starve, UN Prepares Mild Reminder
UNDP's Dervis
Disregards Ethics Office, Threatens to Tarnish Reputation of Accusers
At the UN,
Team Ban Emphasizes Split in US Mission, UNDP Shielded from Ethics
Office, Brussels Links
UN's Congo Staff
Strike Moves Into Second Day, UN Union Busting in Liberia Surfaces,
High Officials Away
Abkhaz
Airspace and Feverish Pig Allegations Follow Georgia's Russian Missile
Case
UNDP Orchestrates
Danish-Led Ethics Evasion, Dangles Melkert Off the Record, As Legal
Ruling Is Sought
At the UN,
Ethics Office Urged to Protect UNDP Whistleblower Despite Ban's Support
of Self-Investigation
In UN's Mission
in Congo, National Staff Threatens Work Stoppage, Day Laborers Abused,
Staff Say
At the UN,
Whistleblower Loopholes Defended, Ban's Fragmentation Called Ludicrous
- Video here
In
Missile-Gate, Russia Tells Its Side of the Story, Saying Georgia Made
It Up, and Kodori Too
At the UN,
Belated Focus on Darfur Leaves NW Central African Republic Unprotected
At UN, Ban
Is Entangled in Scandals of UN Development Program, As Staff Union
Complains
UN's Secrecy
About Past Iraq Security Bodes Badly for Future Expansion, Sources Say
UN to Open in
Turkmenistan, Takes Long View on Nepal, Mentions Soo Kyi, But Not Too
Much
Retaliation
Is Found In UN Development Program, For Ban Ki-moon, an Inconvenient
Test - UN Ethics
Office Memo here
UN Baghdad
Bombing Reports Withheld, As Ban Wants Expansion in Iraq, Transparency
Is Lacking
At UN, Press
Focus on Death and Cockroaches, Caterers Blame UN While Poison's Sprayed
At UN's Baghdad
Bomb Memorial, Marginal Voices Question Ban's Iraq Expansion
UN's Explosion
in Iraq Remembered as Ban Pitches Expansion, Threat Assessment
Unaddressed
UN Aid to N.
Korea Marked by UNDP's Absence, Ban's Shadow, Peninsular Politics
At the UN,
Georgian Missile Plot Thickens, With Friends Like These...
UNDP Censors
Wikipedia to Remove Press Link to Ugandan Violent Disarmament
Terrorism
Accusations Against UN Official and Iranian Guards Draw No Comments at
UN
UN Still Defers
to Khartoum, on Suleiman Jamous and the Hybrid Force for Darfur
UN
Environment Program Is Hacked, Explains Policies on New Media and
Corporate Partnering
UN's Ban Meets
with N. Korean Rep, Access for Audit Not Raised, Secret Message Conveyed
On Global
Warming, UN's Ban Ki-moon Still Has Far to Travel, As September Summit
Approaches
At the UN,
Hacker Cut-Up Brings Turkish Denial, UNEP Doesn't Answer About Its
Still-Hacked Site
Greenspan's
Shameless Cash-Out to Deutsche Bank Is a Sub-Crime, Consumers Complain
At the UN,
Somalia Discussed As Journalists Are Killed, White Phosphorous Used
-- (Somalia video here)
UN's Hacked
Website Is Restored but Still Vulnerable, Online Engagement Should
Increase
In
UN-Bloomberg Fire Safety Stand-Off, Freedom of Information Is Lacking
As UN Expands
in Iraq, Old Scud Missile Engines and Gyroscopes Await Their Fate
At the UN,
Iraq Expansion Approved as Ambassadors Leave, The Man Who Spat Peanuts
In Face of
Floods, Military Helicopters Are Last Resort, Oslo Guidelines and UN Say
At the UN,
Indigenous Rights Declaration Moves Leaderless Toward End Game
At the UN, Iraq
to Khalilzad Call Presages Friday Vote on UN Role, Bombs and Rent
Questions Persist
At the UN,
Georgian Missile Mystery May Have Ossetian Explanation, United for
Peace Unlikely
As UN's Ban Dines
in Barbados with Blair, $130 Million in Iraq UN Expansion Discussed in
NY
UN Staff Union
Questions Ban's Rush Into Iraq, Death of a Demographer Reverberates
At the UN, As
Darfur Mission Described, Congo Misdeeds Unaddressed, Cote d'Ivoire
Forgotten
In UN
Scheme for US Visas, UN Development Program's Role Raises Questions
At the UN,
Protesters Ask Ban Ki-moon to Do More to Help Free Hostages in
Afghanistan (and
video)
UN Rehab Losers
Named, Durbin's Claimed Call Denied, Let the Transparency Begin
At the UN,
Carter's Palestine Book Is Pulled, as Gaza Explains Qatar's Lebanon
Objection
Russia Lays
Claim to North Pole While Ceding Ground on Iraq at the UN, Pundits Say
UN Council's New
President Says Uganda's LRA Is Still in the Woods, Jan Pronk Should Be
Replaced
UN's Ban
Extends Barbados Visit into Vacation, Plans to Visit Darfur, Sources Say
UN's Climate
Change Gurus Disagree on Cap and Trade in Debate that is Off-set for
$2500
On FAO in North
Korea, No Audit Despite Hard Currency, Murky Seconded Staff
At the UN,
Darfur Resolution's Ambiguity May Spell Trouble, Sudan Says It's Happy
(and video)
At the UN,
Greenwash and Hamstrung Peacekeepers, What Brown Can Do For You
At UNDP, No
Answer to Staff Complaints from Philippines, As Dervis Schmoozes Ban
On Climate
Change, Duke Energy Talks Cap at the UN While Filling the Air with
Carbon Dioxide
From UNDP, Half
an Answer on Diamonds, No Denial of Policy of Non-Response
At the UN,
Darfur Resolution "Goes Blue," Readied for Tuesday Vote
At the UN, Ban's
Beirut Appointee Deals Real Estate With Spencer Abraham, As Williams
Eyes UK
UN Mulls
Banning Bloggers, Leaked Minutes Reveal, Fearing Coverage Not Easily
Controlled
UN's Gambari to
Abuja and Reed to Tokyo, Musical Chairs Between Haiti and HQ, Where
Lights Go Out
UN Resists New
Media, Minutes Show, as UNDP and WHO Refuse to Answer Questions
UN's Contractor
Fined for Bid-Rigging, Chosen Over Two Unnamed Firms by Two Unnamed
Reviewers
On Darfur,
China Bristles at Misquote, Sudan Blames the West for Rebels'
Self-Importance
At UNDP, Cover-up
in Finance, Screw-up in Nepal, Waste in Glen Cove - and No Answers
In Nepal, UN's
Martin Balances Maoists and Snakes in the Camps, UNDP Makes Rebels
"Allergic"
At the UN,
Russia and Georgia Tussle on Abkhazia, So Close to Sochi But So Far
At the
UN, Amid Ethiopia Questions, Who Investigates WHO Remains Unanswered
UN Confines the
Wrong 700 Peacekeepers in Cote d'Ivoire, No Discipline in Congo to
Speak Of
UNDP's Melkert
Remembered As Apparatchik by Dutch Media and UNDP Staff
With One
Korean Hostage Dead, Ban Ki-moon Calls Afghan President Karzai Again
UN's Holmes on
Somali Guns, Who Will Investigate WHO in Ogaden?
At UNDP, Staff
and G-77 Turn On Melkert, A "Ruud Lubbers With His Pants Up"
Ethiopia's
Meles Goes from Strategic Starver to UN Partner in a Day, Ogaden Games
in the Times
At UNDP, Melkert
Is a Diversion, U.S. Rep. Says, As Walls Close In On Dervis
UN's Ban Asks
for Unclear "Utmost" to Free Koreans in Afghanistan, Amid Questions
"You
Ain't Seen Nothing Yet," UNDP Whistleblower Vows, Calling for Ban
Ki-moon's Action
At the UN,
Closed Rooms and a Crafty Ban Ki-Whom, Paparazzi on Julia Ormond v.
Hezbollah
Ban Ki-moon
Summons All Top UN Officials to Turin for a Weekend, Who Needs Long
Island?
At the UN,
Team Ban Accused of Undermining Africa, Leaking of Letter Is
Counter-Charged
From
Arraignment to Entertainment, Koreas on Display at the UN and in Spy
Case
UN Urges
"Reduction" of Hutu Rebels in Congo, More Gem Trading Charges
From the UN,
the World's Most Famous Steam Pipe Incident Raises Underlying Questions
In Ban's UN,
Africa May Be Overshadowed by Climate Change, Somalia Silence Continues
At the UN,
Prostitutes for Procurement Go Barely Mentioned, Corruption Off the Map
At the UN,
Russia Joins Opponents of Indigenous Rights, Ban Ki-moon MIA
At the UN,
Team Ban On the Defensive, Chiding Reporters While Access is Denied
In Ban's UN,
Access Lists Are Not Kept or Disclosed, Consultations After the Fact
At the UN,
Kosovo Resolution Goes Blue Under Veto Threats, Precedents and Access
Denied
UN's Ban
Denies Being Faceless, But Is Obscured by Gatekeepers
At UNDP,
Investigators By Invitation Only, To Scrutinize Complainants, Make Sure
the Fix Is In
As UN Pension
Board Partially Rebuffs Him, Cocheme Speaks of Eternity and Burnham
UN's Ban
Blandly Calls Critics Unfair, While Avoiding Critical Questions and
Ignoring Somalia War
At the UN, a
Ban Ki-moon for the Misbegotten, Amid Bad Reviews, Ban Meets the Press
In Somalia,
Despite Mortars the Show Must Go On, For Funding
In a Ban-less
UN, It's Executions, Polisario and a Cheerleader from Another Planet
UN's Guehenno
Denounces But Won't Quote Ivorian Alpha Blondy, Rubber Bullets Suspended
UN Confirms Its
Congo Peacekeeper's Gold "Facilitation," While Denying Gun Trading
At the UN,
Nuclear and Terror Committees Struggle Toward Their Sunsets, No Mention
of N. Korea nor of A.Q. Khan
At UN Pension
Fund, Cocheme's Last Grab, Skirting Procurement Rules for JP Morgan
Chase, Potential Outsourcer
At UNDP,
Computers Shut-Down As Investigators Swarm, Jurisdiction Unclear, Aruna
to UNICEF
At UNDP,
Melkert's Toast and Aruna's on the Move, Sources Say, Procurement Task
Force Needed
Migiro Says UN
"Will Not Tolerate" Somali Executions, Confirms Africa Office
Consolidation
At UNDP,
Secretive Empowerment of the Poor, Whistleblower Publicly Trashed,
Melkert's Misdirection
At the UN,
Staff Council Opposes Outsourcing of Pensions and CEO Cocheme's Coup
Guinea-Bissau
is Broke If Not Broken, UN Responds With Press Release
In Ban's UN,
Africa Office Threatened with Extinction, Diplomats Complain
In Ban's UN, a
Headless Sudan Mission and an Airstrip for War Criminals from Uganda
At the UN,
Posturing on Kosovo, Evasions on Use of Rubber Bullets and Ballots,
Veto Trades
UNDP Attacks
Whistleblower, Admits He Met with Dervis, Placed Among the Crazies
Ban Ki-moon, With
Coke Chair, Says Global Compact Will Be Transparent, But How?
UN's Ivorian
Mission Disavows Its Peace Messenger As Posts Remain Unfilled
UN Spins VIP
Fireworks and "Standard" Meeting on Myanmar, Submachine Gun Tales
At UN Pension
Fund, Cocheme Coup Includes 43 New Posts and Double the Travel
On Rights and
Labor, Global Compact Is "Not a Watchdog" of UN's Own Compliance
From the UN,
Fireworks Are Close But Far, Delegates-Only by the East River
In Ban's UN,
44.37 Whistleblowers Face 45 Days of Retaliation Without Protection
At UN in
July, China's Changed Position on Myanmar and Faith in Somali
"Brothers" Among Tests
In UN Justice
News, Cambodia Timing and Costs, Rwanda Run-Around, Rubber Bullet
Silence
In UN Doldrums,
Wind-Down of Iraq Weapons Search, Asbestos in the Swing Space, MDG
Embargo
At the UN, News
Blackout in Tbilisi, Assessing New Media in Madrid "Internal Meeting"
At UN Pension
Fund, Cocheme Coup Includes OIOS Confusion, Words Instead of Action
In Ban's UN,
Whistleblower Games Reveal UNDP Good Cop - Bad Cop Charade
At the UN, The
Guns Of Rio and Nepal, From Pakistan's Press, Refugee Answers
At the UN,
Somalia's Gedi Asks for $32 Million, Denies Restricting Opponents'
Travel
At UNDP, Hunting
Down Leakers and Whisteblowers' Photos, Hiding Disclosure Behind a
Bored Board
At the UN,
Votes on Peacekeeping Split and Israel Debt, Building Fix and School's
Out for Summer
UN Pensions On
Verge of Privatization, Cocheme's Power Play and Memo
Americans for
UNFPA's President Calls Ban's N. Korea Audit "Political," Katrina "Too
Local"
With UN
Peacekeepers' Equipment, Anything Apparently Goes, As Frequency
Inhibitors Called National Issue
At the UN,
Rumi Tunes Show Softer Side of Ban, Myanmar Efforts Unclear
In Ban's UN,
Rwanda Letters Lost or Denied, In Echo of Genocide Memo, Still Left
Unclear
Subprime in
Seattle, Spin on Capitol Hill and Bailouts on Wall Street Leave
Consumers Sleepless
In Ban's UN,
Human Rights Arguments Can Be Ignored, Journalists Kept Out of the Club
At the UN, Harms
to Civilians in Colombia, and by UN, Are Raised but not Resolved
In Ban's UN,
Peacekeeping Win Is Elusive, Union Not Convinced, Big Guns Over Gaza
At UNDP, Top
Lawyer Demoted In Favor of One More Eager to Please, Funding Under
Attack
At the UN, Kosovo
Subject to Bosnian Spin and Romanian Precedents, Uzbek Refugees Still
Without Asylum
In Ban's UN,
Praise of Human Rights in Artic but Not in North Korea, Over UNDP's
Filet Mignon
At UNDP, As Five
More Get Silenced, Myanmar Restrictions Explained, Still Undefined
Corruption
UN DESA's Centers
May be Discontinued, As Nagoya Center Funding Disappears, Sources Say
Ban-Mentor's
Olympic Dreams Are Covered Over in NY, the Rights Mariachis in Geneva
UN's Global
Compact Accepts Nearly All Sinners, Struggles to See UN Comply with
Principles
Ban Ki-moon's
Soft Ear Not Heard at UN Human Rights Council, Lost in the Mail, Bosnia
Letter
UNDP's Dervis
Says, "I Am Not Answering Any of Your Questions," on Audits and Head of
Budgets
At the UN,
Blue-washing Waldheim, Gaza Power Redux, Saharawi Monday, LI Press
At UNDP,
Melkert's Spin Machine Shoots at Khalilzad, Somalia Secrets
On Darfur,
Mr. Ban Dislikes "Skeptical Reporting" While Questions Go Unanswered
At UNDP, Melkert
Accused of Threatening Retaliation Against Member States, Amb.
Khalilzad's Plea to Dervis
At UNDP, Audit
Access Gets Loophole, "Commitment" Becomes "Considering," Melkert on
the Run
In North Korea,
UNICEF Has Stopped Medical Aid to Two Provinces For Lack of Access
In Ban's UN,
Backsliding on Internal Justice and Question-Taking, Bazaar of P-3s in
Vienna Cafe
At the UN,
China Favored Over Taiwan by Guatemala's Vinicio Cerezo, "Arias Was
Right"
At the UN, Mr.
Ban Takes Aim at Leaks, Focus on Secrecy Questioned, on N. Korea Issues
At UNDP, Tales of
Data Corruption, 'Whirling' Dervis and Whistleblower's Warnings about
N. Korea
In
Somalia, ICRC Demands Hospitals Serve All Wounded, While Working With
"Local Authorities"
In N. Korea
Scandal, Still No WFP or FAO Audit, What Did UNICEF Know and When?
At the UN,
Secret Briefings on Lebanon and Sudan, Withheld Briefings on Congo and
Advisor
At UNDP, Denial
of Retaliation and Barring of Council Belied by E-mails as North Korea
Scandal Unfolds
At the UN,
Srebrenica Immunity Downplayed, West Papua No Comment
Sierra Leone
Prosecutor Goes Hat in Hand to a Closed Down BBC, While ICC Stays Off
the Record
In Myanmar,
Local UNDP Staff Must Tithe To Get and Keep Jobs, Yangon Insiders Say
At UNICEF,
Still No Answer on N. Korea Audit, Morgan Stanley Partnership Questioned
The UN and Human
Rights, A Day Late and a Dollar Short in Sri Lanka, Uganda and
Bangladesh
UN's Ms.
Ahlenius Silent on Investigation of DESA as GA President Kerim Worked
There, Pension Fund Buck Pass
At the UN,
Watered Down Plan For Darfur Force Is Promoted by Anonymous Official,
to Sudan's Liking?
UN's Spin on
Africa and MDGs Launched, As UNDP Swings Axe on Brasilia, Money Sucked
to NY Stars
UNDP's Melkert
Opposes Online Disclosure, Myanmar Corruption and Harare Law Firm
Questions
In Ban's UN,
Sun Myung Moon's Paper is Praised, While Gambari Raises Him Funds, WFP
Demurs
At the UN,
Peacekeeping Doldrums in Chad and Fifth Committee, Chocolate Sandwiches
and Landscapes
UNDP Won't
Say How It Chose As Partner Fortis, Reported Funder of Pipeline and
Myanmar
Team Ban Memo
Foretold UNDP Resumption in N. Korea A Month Before Audit Was Released
Corporations Come
to the UN to Brag behind Closed $1000 Doors about Diversity, Global
Compact
As Puntland Is
Bombed by US, Security Council Leaves Somalia in the Footnotes, With
Sanctions
WFP In the Public
Eye, In Uganda, India, Chad and at the Top, Not Yet on North Korea Audit
At UNDP, Evasive
or No Answers on Myanmar Corruption, As Even Dervis' Location Is Secret
Ban Ki-moon
and UNDP Claim Exoneration by Auditors Barred from N. Korea,
Retaliation Concealed
UN's Twenty
Babies in Timor Leste and Atul Khare's Candid Hand, June 30 Elections
At the UN, Dow
Chemical Protesters Detained and Media Sent on a Blue Planet Run
As N. Korea Audit
Looms, Memo of Mr. Ban's DPA Foreshadows the White Wash of UNDP
UN's Louise
Arbour is Human Rights Catch-All, As War Crimes Go Unpunished in Congo
At the UN,
Kosovo Draft and Serbia Spam Recall Mehlis' Hariri Blooper, in
Diplomatic Dog Days
In Haiti, UN
Community Center Stories Disclaimed, Perp Walks Disfavored but Allowed
UN's "Inclusive
Finance" Does Not Begin at Home, Subprime Blind Spot at UNDP, No Answers
At UNFPA, Ruling
to Investigate Obaid is Called Off by Alicia Barcena, Justice on the
Rocks
At the UN, Hariri
Tribunal Approved as Blackberry Flies, Kosovo on Horizon with Veto
On UNDP, Auditors
Who Did Not Visit North Korea, Non-Answers on Sri Lanka and Myanmar
On Darfur, Ban's
Soft Power Eclipsed by Sanctions, Shish Kebabs for Peace
As UN
Peacekeepers Are Mourned, Ending Impunity and Exposing Corruption Are
Key
At the
UN, Team Ban's Transparency Is Elusive, As Hiring Rules Avoided
In Ban's UN, S.
Korean Nationals Placed in Other UN Offices Avoid "Regular Procedures"
In Ban's UN,
Senior Appointee Information Is Withheld, Even if UN Had Info-Rights,
Which It Does Not
UN Skips
Darfur Debate, Reuters Poll Shows NGO Fear, Let the Grassroots Blogging
Begin
At the UN,
New GA President Talks Climate, Vows Transparency, ACABQ Not Included
At the UN,
Indigenous Miss Mr. Ban, Fight for Rights While UN Censors Films for
its Member States
IMF's Screened-Out
Questions Include Banks Over Butter in Santo Domingo, Subprime's Now
Old Hat
At the UN, Congo
Spin of Peter Karim's FNI Militia, Gold and Guns and Child Soldiers
Still
UNICEF Appeals
for Iraq, Explains Mozambique, Snoop Dogg at Arm's Length
In Ban's UN,
Withheld List of Staff Shows 51 South Koreans As a Baseline, Series
Will Continue
At UN,
Indigenous Rights Are Threatened With Amendments, by Global Warming and
Agency Hot Air
At the UN, Two
Voices from Bosnia, Silence from the UN on Srebrenica Genocide Decision
Decried
In Mr. Ban's
UN, Why Is List of Staff by Nation Still Kept Confidential, Even from
the Staff?
At the UN,
Senators Talk Darfur, Boycott Is Disfavored, N. Korea Audit Is Not
Raised
Arts at the UN,
Security That Sings and Jokes, Underground Films of Laos and Rwanda
After Bombing
in Somalia, UN's Holmes Regrets Not Meeting Hawiye Clan, Prizes Peace
over Justice
Kosovo Precedent,
Border War Silence, Stand-Up Comedy at the UN
On Darfur,
Questions of Ban's Calls and Kazakh Plane Allegations Not Permitted
UN Withholds
Nationality and Job Data Which Even Swiss Would Release, As Japan Wants
More Posts
At the UN, No
Belarus But Much Boasting, Human Rights Hypocrisy Is Widespread
At the UN,
Clashing Stories on Council and Peacekeeping Reform, UNHCR on
Swiss and Thailand
At the UN,
Finland's Halonen Makes Pitch For Council Seat, on Free Media and Gender
UNDP's Silence on
No Audit Help from N. Korea Broken By Barcena, Diamond Questions
At the UN,
Aghan-Pakistan Dispute Lacks Answers and Preventive Diplomacy
At the UN,
More Transparency Is Promised as Violations Are Confirmed
In Mr. Ban's
UN, Retraction Demand about Nationality and Staffing Raises Questions
UNDP's Belated
Disclosure Policy Undercut By Harassment, Diamond Smuggling and
Conflict Allegations
As African
Nations Oppose Indigenous Rights Treaty, Stories from Botswana and
Rwanda
At the UN on a
Moon-less Night, Indigenous Fend for Themselves on 38th Floor (updated May
16, 2007)
UN Leaves
Somalia With No International Staff, Gedi's Nairobi Villa Is Word on
Mogadishu Street
At UNDP, Morale
Low in Georgia, N. Korea Says "Expect No Audit Help"
At the UN,
Belgium's Karel De Gucht Is Asked Of Dalai Lama's Cancelled Visit
At the UN,
Zimbabwe Elected 26-21 to Sustainable Development Chair As EU Rejects
Text
UN Investigation
of UNDP and Diamond Smuggling, Sri Lanka was UNOPS not WFP
UN
Counter-Terrorism at Crossroads, From Danish Cartoons to Sunset on
Pakistan's Wall
At the UN, An
Absurd No at the Stakeout, Auditor Brodeur Is Sought, No Comment on
Drowned Haitians
At the UN,
Germany Defends Its Burning of Coal, Makes Up By Buying Credits
At the UN, Ban
Ki-moon is Knocking on the Door, 46th Street Lease, Larsen as Volunteer
On UNDP
North Korea Audit, ACABQ Chairman Has No Paper, While Spokesperson Says
It Is Finished
At UNU, Swiss Grab
Rector Post, It's Konrad Osterwalder, To Sell UNU Press, $1 a Year in
New York
At the UN,
Questions of Myanmar and Belarus, Qatar's Ruperez Tapes at Sharm El
Sheikh, Chevron to Cop a Plea
At UN, Model of
"Independent" Diplomacy Questioned on Conflicts, Clients and Funders
At the UN, Ban
Envoy Lagos' Climate Change Record Questioned, Palm Oil Promoted
Stages
Skipped in UN North Korea Audit, UNDP Gets First Dibs on the White
Wash, Sources Say
UN's Zero
Tolerance Doesn't Add Up, UNESCO Hits Delete, Sanitation and Silence on
Terror Quitting
Iraq's Debt and
Oil Accounting Left Murky by UN's Gambari and Compact with Iraq
In Run-Up to
Human Rights Council Vote, Freedom House Chides the US, UN Watch
Disappointed with Arbour
In Nepal, Snakes
in the Camps Are Not In UN's Mandate, Vote by November OK, Envoy Says
UN Tour Guide
Becomes Albania's PR Minister While Paid by UN, Quits Only After
Questions
UN's "If
Asked" List Changes For Lebanon, BNP Rally, Ruperez' Reputed Quitting
as Anti-Terror Chief
At the UN,
Undisclosed Envoys Moonlight "When Actually Employed," G-4 Visas and
Conflicts
Alan Johnston
Is One of Many Journalists Held Hostage, For Whom the Drums Should Be
Beaten
U.S.
Highlights Bloggers at the UN, While Keeping Them from Amb. Khalilzad
On Kosovo, Amb.
Churkin Foreshadows a Veto, Scrutiny Somalia Lacked
UN
Exhibit-Gate Gets Russian Spin, U.S. Domination Questioned, Abkhazia
With(out) Georgia
Online
and other Journalists Under Attack by Governments and even the UN, on
Press Freedom Day
At the UN, New
Ethics Head and Pension Double Talk, Syrian Snubs and UNMOVIC
UN Refugee Czar
Guterres Praises Sudan and Mozambique, Questions U.S.-Australia Asylum
Swap
At the UN, Plug
Is Pulled On Polisario, Access Cut by Khalilzad, Press Freedom's Day's
To Come
UN's Migiro
Says UNDP's Centrality Not Yet Decided, Condi Rice Theory Circulates
UN
"Acknowledges Failure" in Rwanda, 13 Years and Three Weeks Late, French
Soldier Is Identified
As
UNDP's Melkert Sings to World Bank Board, His Own Hiring and Non-Action
Lack Scrutiny
UN's Rwanda
Genocide Exhibit Shifts "Turkey" to "Ottoman Empire" and "Murders" to
"Mass Killings"
At the UN, Ban
on the Move, Khalilzad Defers, Sahara Words, Rwanda Exhibit Still Not
Visible
Somali
Diplomat Questions UN's Warlord Payments, Blackhawk Down - TFG
Connection Confirmed
UK's
Nero-Like April Atop Security Council, Fiddling As Somalia, Chad and
Central Africa Burn
At the UN,
Mobility Defended, Member States Invoked, Pension Fund Video Screened
and Panned
UN Auditors
Without Access, UNDP's Audi Without a Driver As N. Korea Recalls Visas
At the UN, Access
for Vodka and Connected Electricians, Mobility for Auditors and Human
Rights, Less So
UNDP Downplays N.
Korea's Order that Two Staff Leave, Melkert's Hiring, Zimbabwe and
Gambia
At the UN,
Questions of Real Estate and Cyprus, Rwanda and Korea, While UNDP Hides
On Zimbabwe,
UNDP's Support For Mugabe's Human Rights Commission Criticized
At the UN,
Ban's Mobility Plan is Panned by Staff Union, Complaints of Favoritism
UN's Holmes
"Condemns" Reported Somali TFG Statements, While Withholding Documents
In UNCA-gate, Mr.
Ban's Dig from Geneva Leads to Speechwriter Questions in New York
UN's Trip to
Balkans Slated To Skirt Demonstrations, Hit Ethnic Enclaves, Work the
Vote
At the UN,
Arms Treaty Promoted, Ugandan Disarmament Panned, Eye on Kabul
UNDP Acknowledges
Ouster from North Korea, Claims Audit Not Impacted Despite Delay
In Three-Way
Bank Deal, 10% Deposit Cap and Barclays' Subprime Loom As Issues
UNDP's Last Two
Staff Members Become Persona Non Grata in North Korea
As Wolfowitz
Totters, Lying in Wait Is Mark Malloch Brown As Well As UNDP's New Duo
In Somalia,
Understaffed Government Demands to Inspect All UN Aid, At "Anti-Terror"
Checkpoints
At the UN,
Excusing Abuse of Asylum Seekers, Dodging Human Rights, Fetishizing
Borders
In Nigerian
Electoral Chaos, UN Hides Role of UNDP, Kemal Dervis' Boasts
As UN
Rewrites Rwanda Genocide Exhibit, Role of France, the Church and Hutu
Are In Play, Top Official Says
Sudan's
"White Plane" Was Bought From Russia, Despite UN's Borat-like Kazakh
Diversion
Plight of
Sudan's Children, Like Accountability for their Abuse, Runs Up Against
Sovereignty
At the UN,
Mobility on Hold, ASGs Extended, Melkert Spins Wolfowitz Back
UN-Marked Plane
in Darfur Triggers Briefing on Peacekeeping Delays, Silence on Old Ammo
in Kosovo
UN's Rosy on
Asia, Except Japan, North Korea and Timor-Leste, Carbon and Growth
At the UN,
Ban Ki-Meleon Does Not Observe Nigeria, Declines Comment on Disarmament
Icon's Death
At Citigroup,
Prince Eyes Predatory Argent, Standing Where Sandy Weill Once Stood
At the UN on
Global Warming, Polluters Like the Council, the Less Developed Don't
At the UN, Ban's
Coherence Plan Is Critiqued, Lead Agency UNDP is Headless and Silent
On Darfur,
Sudan and UN Speak Two Different Hybrid Languages, Arguing in the Hall
At UNDP, Ad
Melkert's Political Hiring Rivals Wolfowitz's, World Bank Documents
Disclosed
At the UN, Basis
of Genocide Exhibition's Postponement Is Not Disclosed, Nor FDNY Issues
At the UN on
Abkhazia and Kosovo, Separatists and Independence Muddied by Right to
Return
At the UN, Congo
To Get One Month, Abkhazia Six, Clinton on Uganda, Kosovo Trip Firms Up
Ban Ki-moon
Strives for Coherence, But UNDP Scandal and G-77 Doubts Won't Help
UNDP Accedes to
Gambian President's "Spiritual" AIDS Cure, Refuses to Answer Any
Questions
Steamroller or
Slippery Eel, Ban Ki-Moon's 100 Days at the Helm, Silence Doesn't Help
At the UN, Of Fire
Drills Cancelled, Six Dollar Tea, Camerapersons Inconvenienced
As Somali
Defense Official Speaks of Extermination, UN and U.S. Dodge War Crimes
Questions
At the UN, Mayor
Bloomberg Talks Global Warming While Fire Department Inspection Is
Discussed
Predatory
Lending in NY Compared to S&L Crisis, As Subcrime Disparities Worsen
With Abkhazia at
the UN, Breakaway Republics' Club is Waiting, Disputes on Visas, Kosovo
and Exhibitions
IMF Warns on U.S.
Subprime Lending, While Praising Its Global Spread
Bombing of
Civilians Justified by UN-Supported Somali President, War Crimes
Questions Raised
At the UN, Rwanda
Exhibition Postponed For Turkish Armenian Concerns, Abkhazia Exhibition
Flies Under Radar
At UNDP,
Agit-Prop Gushes Online from Interns, Staff Survey Buried, Ad Melkert
Spins
UN Mine Action
Works With One-Third of Governments Including Ugandan Army Mining
Karamoja
At the UN,
Secretive Diplomats, Shy Dervis, UNDP Sings As Ms. Ahlenius Lunches
U.S.
Exclusion of Abkhazia Minister Explained, While Gunship Mystery
Continues, Russia in the Wings
Fijian Troops
are "Rotated" to UN in Iraq through Limitless Loophole in Previous UN
Coup Response
At the UN, Congo
Days and British Knights, Climate Change Reaches Council Agenda
At the UN, Kosovo
Questions Glean Abkhaz Visa Answers, Arria-Style Then and Now
UNDP Officials
are "Collaborating with Federal Investigators," Romanian Gold Mine
Charges Unanswered
UN Keeps
Peacekeepers from Post-Coup Fiji, Has No Comment On Role in Bangladesh
Coup
UN's Africa
Report Sidesteps Zimbabwe's Fall, Embraces Privatization of Banks
At the UN,
Justice Reform Progress is Delayed a Year, Money Fight Delayed,
Favoritism Continues
As Somali
Mortars Fly, Ban Ki-moon Waits for April 16 Summit, While Some Clans
Are Excluded
At the UN, Even
Louise Arbour Is Dismissive of Critical New Media, Zimbabwe Sanctions
Decried by S. Africa
At the UN, Six
Hours for Two Paragraph on Iran, Spin Over Kosovo and Zimbabwe
At the UN, Who Is
a Journalist, Who Decides and How Are Put to Pincas Test
Senior UNDP
Officials Summoned to Southern District of NY in N. Korea Case
UN Threats
Against Dubai Corruption Whistle-Blowers Pose Test for Ban Ki-moon
At the UN,
African Kosovos, Ivory Coast Deal and Jean-Pierre Bemba's Leg
At UN Pension
Fund, OIOS Mysteries and Gag Orders, Ms. Barcena Says Outsourcing Slow
Under Sach
On UNDP Audit's
7th Day, Questions of Two Sets of Books and Prejudged Outcome
At the UN,
Memorial of Slavery While Local Fires and People Are Too Often Forgotten
At UNDP,
Hiring from Melkert's Dutch Labor Party, Sudden Retirements and
Consultancies
At the UN,
Questions of Iran Sanctions' Secondary Effect, On Bank Sepah's
Depositors
On UN's Iran
Resolution, Opposition Wilts While Inconvenient History's Raised
At the UN,
Ahmadinejad No-Show Through Rashomon Lens, Zimbabwe Bumped a Week
In March Madness
at UN, Big Five Set Saturday Vote on Iran Sanctions, Zimbabwe Gets
Bumped
On 4th Day of N.
Korea Audit, UNDP Spins From Leaked Minutes
UN Envoy Chissano
Seeks Solution to Lord's Resistance Army, "Without Impunity"
In DC, Sen.
Dodd Focuses on Brokers, HSBC Blames Its Victims, Citigroup Escapes,
Complaints Lost
At UN Office of
Drugs and Crime, Problems of Lack of Oversight, Slow Sleaze in Kabul
On Third Day
of UN's North Korea Audit, Memos Show Warnings But Not the Source of
Funds
At UN, Iran
Resolution Is Juggled with Zimbabwe, Uganda Is In, Brammertz Eats Alone
In Ban's UN,
Questions of Kim, Waiting on Migiro, Dodging LRA Juba Talks, Rodent
Update
UNFPA's Dubious
Tales On UN's N. Korea Audit's 2nd Day, Red Faces at UNDP
At the UN, Hat
Tipped to Human Rights and DC's Stance on Emissions, Equinox is Marked
On UN's N.
Korea Audit's 2nd Day, Rosy Tales from UNFPA, Red Faces at UNDP
Question of Ban
Ki-moon's Role in N. Korea Funding Unanswered for Two Weeks
At UN Security
Council, Kosovo Joisting, Double-Talk on Iran, Depression on Darfur
As UN Global
Compact Lauds Sri Lanka's Hayley Group, Cigarette Filter Production
Deemed Not Serious
As Audit Starts
in NY, UNDP Manager Akiko Yuge Leaves Town, Sale-of-Jobs Unanswered
At the IMF,
Comment on Global Subprime Contagion Deferred For Already-Leaked Report
In
N. Korea, IAEA Won't Say How It Pays, UN Auditors Say They Can't Speak
At the UN, Kosovo
Prognostications, Malagasy Twins, the Magic of Jan Egeland
At the UN,
Questions of Iran Texts, Eels and Laws in Pakistan and Georgia
At UNDP, Audit
Delayed and Questions Deflected As Other Scandals Brew
At the UN, Iran
Process Speeds Up Amid Secret Meetings, Uganda, Citigroup and the
Global Compact
At UNDP, Scandal
Allegations by Stefan Vassilev, Former Russia Resident Representative
On
N. Korea, Ban Ki-moon Refers Press to UNDP, Which Refuses to Provide
Information
UN Audit of
Four of Its Agencies in N. Korea Starts, Memo Shows, Only in NY
UN Women's Week
Ends As Ban Ki-moon Dodges Mercenary Questions
In Iran Talks,
China Offers Quotes and Hope to Shivering Reporters
At the UN, Rosy
Light Falls on Great Lakes Despite Bombs and Kony of Lord's Resistance
Army
At UNDP, Silence
on North Korea Echoed in Zimbabwe, The Gambia and Cambodia
At UN Pension
Fund, More Complaints, More Impunity, No Stop to Outsourcing Assured
UN Envoys Hide
and Seek While Narcotics Are Decried, the UN Parties On
At UNDP in N.
Korea, March Payments Made, Auditors Excluded, Reports Forgotten
At UNDP, Spin
Extends to Headless Poverty Group, Not Only Trust Funds
UNDP Stonewalls
on Trust Funds for N. Korea, Including S. Korean Money
UN Peacekeeping
Waits For Sudan's Letter, Lobbies Pakistan for Troops and Restructuring
At the UN,
Belarus Blames Victims of Trafficking, OAS Head for Extraditing Posada
Carriles
Outsourcing of
UN Pension Fund Delayed Through April, Cocheme's Inaction on OIOS Report
In Wake of UNDP's
Stealth North Korea Shut Down, Spin Machine Re-Starts
Suspending
Operations in N. Korea, UNDP Slows Audit Called for by Ban Ki-moon
From the UN to
JFK, It's Kim Jong Eel and Labor Relations Snafus
UN's Man in
Somalia Says To Embrace and Not Question the Baidoa Government
At the UN, Chad
and Darfur Fall Into Footnotes, Sudanese Praise of French But Not UN
Soldiers
At the UN,
Children and Armed Conflict, From Karim in Congo to UNICEF in Zimbabwe
At UNDP, Poverty
Group Head Rolls, Contractors Double-Dip, Mizsei to Moldova
At UN Pension
Fund, No Outsourcing in March, Cocheme Speaks As Complaint Filed to
Block Press Access
UN's Louise
Arbour Calls Lord's Resistance Army a "Criminal Enterprise" With No
Political Agenda
At UN Pension
Fund, Outsourcing, Corruption and Abuse of Staff To Be Questioned
In Continued
CAR Alarm, Mia Farrow Rebukes Bozize Troops, and Chad Border As Poorest
At the UN,
Ban's Management Chief Despairs of Lightweight Jibe, Prepares to Unveil
Reforms
UN's Nepal Envoy
On Guns, Peacekeeping Split - or Merger - and Child Soldiers
In
Turkmenistan, UNICEF's Praise of Leader and Deference on Staff Leads to
Salt Ionization
At the UN,
Sudan's Letter Is in the Mail, UNDP Envoy Is on the Lam, Blix Is in the
House
In Zimbabwe,
UNICEF Partners with Enemies of Human Rights in Name of Orphans
At the UN, Grants
to Zimbabwe, Peacekeepers from Fiji, Visits with Kurt Waldheim
At UN's WFP,
Directors Old and New Are Shielded from Press As Zimbabwe's Bound for
Board
At UN Pension
Fund, Cocheme Spins Staff Twice in Two Days, As Scrutiny Closes In
At the UN
Pension Fund, Staff Told Not to Sue, Rules Bent, Goddard's Abuse of
Staff Detailed
At the UN, Slovak
Minister Addresses Sterilization of Romany Women As Well As Kosovo
At the UN, Lords'
Resistance Army Closer to Council Agenda, No Ban Comment on Mugabe
At UN University,
Staffers Moonlight by Day, While Jobs Move to Malaysia from Japan
Guinea Crisis
Appears on Margins of Security Council Debate, UN Takes Backseat on
Darfur
At UNDP, Audit Is
Said to Have Started, While Oversight Still Lacks, Says G-77
At UNOPS, Fight
for Control of Dubai, Hub of Harassment and Deals for Iraq and
Afghanistan
At the UN, Ban
Ki-moon Tips Hat to the GA, Deals in the Works, Stories in the Air
UN Pension
Fund Outsourcing Draws 13 Bidders, Over 10 from USA, Kudos for
Shrink-Wrap
Liberia's Debt
Remains Crushing, While UN's Ban Ki-moon Criticizes DRC Diamond
Sanctions
At the UN, Ban
Ki-moon Wants Access to Darfur, Has Genocide Office Shortlist
At UN Pension
Fund, Outsourcing Is Set to Be Sued, While Medical Abuse Paper Trial
Surfaces
At UN
Peacekeeping, Urge to Split and Downplay in Haiti the Collateral Damage
At the UN, Calls
for Transparency and Short-Lists for Genocide Prevention Post
At UNDP, Melkert
Hides Behind Audit and Sharapova, Dervis on 1st Ave. and Still No N.
Korea Numbers
As UN Pension
Fund Outsources, UN Directives Are Said to Not Apply, Per Jan Beagle
Memo
UNICEF
Criticism of US and UK Is Quietly Released in NYC, Tipping Hat to
Never-Divorced Families
At the UN
Pension Fund, Question of Special Status As A Second Gag Order Is Issued
For UNDP Audit,
UN Controller Met With Timo Pakkala While UNDP Refuses to Answer
In UN Pension
Fund Outsourcing Controversy, Russia's Role Revealed in Just-Released
Minutes
At UNOPS,
Payments to Nay Htun Evade Pension Rules, Sources Say, in N. Korea
Shadows
At UN Pension
Fund, Gag Orders and Mental Health Accusations as Audit Committee Meets
At the UN,
Questions of Jobs Given Predetermined, Nepotism Admitted in Schori's
Parting Shot
Head of UN
Pension Fund Ignores Investigation, While Whistleblower Speaks in
Exclusive Interview
While UNDP's
North Korea Representative Is in a NY Hotel, Dervis Is Cut Off and the
Fund Details Protected
At the UN, Haiti
and Kosovo Predictions, Labor Mobility and Offshore Banking
UN Pension
Fund's Investment Director Has Resigned, Sources Say, Recusal and
Revolving Door Remains Unresolved
Rift Over UN's
Call to Train Police for Somali Government Is Downplayed by UN
Headquarters
At the UN
Pension Fund, Those Investigated Remain Firmly in Their Jobs, As
Outsourcing Proceeds
On Somalia,
Ban Ki-moon and US Urge Inclusion of Moderate Islamists, While Words
and Mortars Fly
President
Uribe, at the UN, Asked about Murders in Colombia of Human Rights
Defenders
At the World
Bank, Corruption-Fighting Claims Not Fully Matched by Actions, Though
Better than UNDP
At the UN, the
Staff Pension Has a "Bad Odor" While Outsourcing is Still Pursued
Lord's
Resistance Army in Sights of UN Security Council President, for Action
on War Crimes
At the UN, in NY
and Geneva, Central African Republic Gets Lost, Like UNFPA's Dungus
At the UN,
Secrecy Still Reigns, from UNFPA to the Council, from Russia to Ban
Ki-moon
At UNDP, Kemal
Dervis' Private Briefing Excludes North Korea Answers Despite Claims of
"One UN"
At the UN, Crime
of Aggression Does Not Fit Somalia, Two Refuse to Quit and UPeace Is
Debated
At UNFPA, Audit
Shows Asset Transfers to N. Korean Government, Hard Currency through
UNDP
At the UN, Sierra
Leone Prosecutor Picks Justice Over Peace as Roma Ask Ban Ki-moon To
Act on Rights
At FAO, North
Korean Officials Fly and Run the Show, While UN Jobs Are Allegedly
Traded
At UNICEF,
"Children First" Includes Flying N. Korean Officials to Conferences,
Silence
At the UN, Happy
Talk of Haiti and Hide-the-Ball on Casualties and the Taiwan Factor on
MINUSTAH
UN's University
for Peace Pays N. Korean Travel, Maurice Strong Still On Its Council,
UNDP's Role in Question
UNDP Backslides
on Audits and N. Koreans' Travel, Scope Expands to UNICEF, WFP, and
UNFPA, FAO and UPEACE
At the UN, Dice
Rolled on Jan Beagle, Vienna Cafe Called "Disgrace" by Warren Sach, on
Margin of UNDP Scandal
At UNFPA, Press
Questions Met With Armed Guards, Despite Audit Irregularities, Saudi
Arabia in NY
UNDP North Korea
Investigation Limited in Murky Deal with U.S., Independence of Hiring
at Issue
Before UNDP
Meeting, North Korea Reaches out to G-77 and Deal for Silence Reached,
Unless a "Wrinkle"
On UN Reform,
Grandstanding and Apathy, on UNFPA at Least, Despite Tax Evasion on
Milk and Cars, UNDP to Follow
At UN, Ban Backs
Down on Fiji Coup, Churkin Calls for Creativity on Kosovo, But What of
Veto?
At UNOPS, Side
Deals for Danish Relocation, Mattsson and Dalberg and the DSA Farming
of Vitaly Vashelboim
At UNFPA, Audit
Failures Are Put In Charge of Audits, Olivier Brasseur, While Milk Is
Bought and Money Is Missing
Ban Ki-moon
Narrows Scope of UNDP Inquiry While Euro Focus Spreads to UNFPA and
WFP, Feeding Koreans
As UNDP Auditor
Leaves, a Secret Test is Proposed, Which Executive Board May Act On,
UNFPA Also Under Fire
At UNDP, Dervis
Dodged Questions for a Month, Now Hides Behind Melkert, Slickly Edited
Facing UNDP
Scandals, Ad Melkert Says "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" In Terms of
Transparency
UNDP's North
Korea Scandal, Just a Tip of the Iceberg, Opens Window on Larger
Problems
As Villages Are
Torched by Central African Republic Troops, World's Focus Is Turned
Elsewhere
At the UN, Dag's
Past Is Ban's Present As Uganda Questions Dodged and Asbestos Upon the
Vienna Cafe
UNDP
Administrator's Discretionary Spending Includes Mysterious Special
Audit and $592,000 for Book
At the UN,
Silence on Somalia and ICTY Pardon Request, Confidence on Kosovo
At UNDP, Former
Staffers Get Consulting Contracts, Dalberg in Ethiopia Called
"Insiders' Game"
UN Climate
Change Chief Describes Growing Deserts and Rising Tides, Bhutanese
Happiness
At the UN,
Central African Rebels Redux, Slow Donors and Shadow of Tanzanian
Anti-Media Law
At the UN,
Central African Republic Rebels Without a Report, Bangladesh Without an
Envoy
At UNDP, Book
Costs Rise to $737,118 While Other Funding Stays Secret like Somalia,
Out of Date
At UNDP, As
Corporate Dealings Grow, Standards Are Lacking, With Coke and Cisco,
Koc and Karimov
At the UN, As
Vetoes Are Cast on Myanmar, Switzerland Muses on Council Reform and
Alliance of Civilizations
At UNDP, Human
Rights Are Left for Last, While Legal Empowerment of the Poor Is At
Least Discussed
At the UN,
Questions of Reform Are Kept Off Ban Ki-moon's Center Stage While Sudan
Is "Too Sensitive"
At UNDP and at
DESA, Countries Call All the Shots for a Four Percent Cut, UNDP's Trust
Funds
At the UN,
Dodging U.S. Bombs and Death of Uighurs, Outliers in UN's Economic
Projection
At UNDP, Auditors
Flee While Documents Are Denied Even to Executive Board, Now Not Only
to Press
In the Congo,
Kidnapper of UN Peacekeepers Still Shoots So WFP Tip-Toes Around with
Food
At UNDP,
Gender and Harassment, While Dervis Heads South, Honduras and other
Information Appealed For
At the UN, Talk
but Little Action and Few Answers, Thailand, Congo, Nepal and Fiji,
Vienna Cafe Follies Update
At the UN, Ban
Ki-moon Demands Resignations, Then Won't Release the List
At UNDP,
Evaluation Means Paid Praise While Transparency is Ignored and
Information Withheld
At the UN, Ban
Ki-moon Visits Press, and Is Pointed to Waste at the Vienna Cafe, Sudan
and Kosovo
At WFP, It's Hurry
Up and Wait for Josette Sheeran Shiner, and Delays in Nepal
At the UN, Top
Posts Doled as Musical Chairs, Sustained Silence on Ethiopia's Somali
Adventure
On Kosovo,
Russia's Churkin Warns Danger's Ahead, While UN's Pristina
Airport-Runner Is Indicted
To Accommodate
Smoking, UN Spends $130,000 on Ducts Faced with Demolition Within Two
Years
At the UN, Death
Penalty Lurchings, Ban Ki-moon Lunching, Somalia Left for Another Day
UNDP's Dervis
Tells Employees to Accept Orders and Not Blow Any Whistles, While
Misspelling Ban Ki-Moon's Name
Waste at UNDP
Includes Environmental Unit's Junket of 145 Staffers to Goa, Hometown
of Unit's Director
On Somalia,
Security Council Denies African Union Position, Calling It a Mere Point
of View, Disagreements on Darfur
Fraud in
UNDP-Russia Includes Malloch Brown's French Water Scheme and Kalman
Mizsei's Excess
As Ethiopia
Bombs Somalia, UN Security Council Gives Wink and Nod, Ready to Grin
and Bear it on Darfur
At the UN,
Mysterious Deletion from Iran Sanctions List of Aerospace Industries
Organization Goes Unexplained
At the UN, Iran
Resolution Passes 15-0 Amid Media Frenzy While Somalia and UN Reform
Are Ignored
At the UN,
Security Council and GA Games and Holiday Spirit As Revolving Door Ban
Disappears on Final Day
UNDP Not Covered
By Weak UN Post-Employment Restrictions, Dervis and Mizsei and Aid to
the Scapegoated
UN
Post-Employment Restriction Are Watered Down for Senior Officials,
Comparison to June Draft Reveals
At the UN, Curt
Eulogies for Dictator, Revolving Door and Budget Left for the Last Day
UNDP's Dervis
Backtracks on Transparency, Promises Accounting of Funds, Denies Role
in Uganda Abuse
At the UN,
Jeffrey Sachs Answers the $75,000 Question But Not on UNDP, Still
Laudable Goals for 2025
Burundi Spin
at the UN, Amid Coup Trial and Ceasefire Not Implemented, Great Lakes
Commission Moves In
At the UN, Iran
Resolution Goes Blue as Ivory Coast is Traded Away With No Follow-up on
Hmung
At the UN,
Annan's Long Goodbye, With Oil for Food in the Air and Hothouse Musical
Chairs
At Kofi Annan's
Farewell, UNDP Transparency is Raised, and Brian Gleeson Steps Up
At UN in Beirut, Dueling Charges of Job-Trading and Tax-Evasion,
the Burden of Mervat Tallawy, Retaliation from Below
UNDP Will Be
Called to Greater Transparency, Says President of Spain, on UNDP's
Board, and Flaws of UNOPS
UNDP's Ad Melkert
Says He Will Finally Increase Transparency, Describes Fraud in Russia,
Dodges Uganda
In Eastern Congo,
Kidnapper of UN Peacekeepers Is Made a Colonel, Clooney And Now
Guehenno Might Stay
At the UN, Ocampo
1 Says Kony To Jail and Ocampo 2 Sees No Serious Bertucci Charges,
Dueling Parties
In UNDP's Book,
Strong's Scandals Are Missing, While Workers Complain, MMB Schmoozes
the Korean Mission
At UNDP, Flighty
Rhetoric Founders in Mismanagement, MMB's Net, a Genocidaire and
Whither ECOSOC
At the UN,
Disabled Are Freed from a Footnote, Murky Answers from Gbagbo to Kosovo
to a Genocidaire
Countering UN's
Vanity Press, UNDP Histories from Below, Brussels and Two Views of Omar
Bakhet
At the UN,
Indigenous Indignation, Revolving Door Mysteries and Peace Pipe
Belatedly Smoked
At the UN,
Questions of Congo Mass Graves and Kazana, Mugabe and Forests and Rich
German Ships
UNDP Is Important
For The Poor, and Therefore Must Be Made Transparent
As UN
Speechifies, UNDP Audits Are Still Being Withheld, While War in Somalia
and Sudan, Pronk Blogs On
Waste, Fraud and
Abuse at UNDP in Vietnam, While UN Secretariat Urges Censorship
At the UN,
Questions of Humanitarian Aid and Congo Body Count, Despots' Crackdown
on Dissent
In UNDP,
Questions of Money Wasted, Neutrality Trampled, Russian Office Audits
Withheld and Sachs Expenses
From Baidoa to
the UN, Denials on Ethiopian Troops Being in Somalia, Resolution Is
Passed
Retaliation
Found at UNDP, While Dervis Is Focused on Turkey, In Two Weeks Will
Take Questions
Annan's Spokesman
Silent on 150 Dead in Congo, War in Somalia - But in Loud Defense of
UNDP's $567,000 Book
At the UN,
Interlopers into Somalia Are Discussed, With Chadian Pull-Back,
Peacekeepers and Uganda's Karamoja
UNDP Spent
$567,000 on Book to Praise Itself, While the Well-Placed Feed Off
UNDP's Core Budget and Prime Postings
As UNDP Questions
Mount, Mark Malloch Brown Calls Them Irresponsible, Answers Only in
Vanity Press
In UNDP Series,
Questions of Jeffrey Sachs and Associates Payments, From $1 to $75,000
From Sleaze in
Vietnam to Fights in DC-1, UNDP Appears Out of Control at the Top
On Somalia,
Past Arms Embargo Violations Forgiven in Zeal to Contain Islamic Courts
In UNDP, Drunken
Mis-Managers on the Make Praised and Protected, Meet UNDP's Kalman
Mizsei
From Violent
Disarmament in Uganda to the National Bank of Serbia, UNDP Leaves
Others to Answer for It
UNDP Sources Say
Dervis Fires Malloch Brown-linked Officials, Then Offers Hush-Up Jobs
On Somalia, Fiji
and Oil-for-Food, UN Ambiguity Leads to Hypocrisy and Corruption
At the UN,
Indigenous Rights Get Deferred, As U.S. Abstains, Deftly or Deceptively
At the UN, Threat
and Possible Statement on Fiji Spotlights Selection and Payment of UN
Peacekeepers
At the UN, China
and Islamic Dev't Bank Oppose Soros and World Bank On How to Fight
Poverty
At the UN,
Misdirection on Somalia and Myanmar, No Answers from UNDP's Kemal Dervis
UNDP Dodges
Questions of Disarmament Abuse in Uganda and of Loss of Togo AIDS
Grant, Dhaka Snafu
At the UN, The
Swan Song of Jan Egeland and the Third Committee Loop, Somalia Echoes
Congo
UN Silent As
Protesters Tear Gassed in Ivory Coast, As UNMOVIC Plods On and War
Spreads in Somalia
In the UN,
Uzbekistan Gets a Pass on Human Rights As Opposition to U.S. Grows and
War's On in Somalia
At the UN,
Cluster Bombs Unremembered, Uighurs Disappeared and Jay-Z Returns with
Water -- for Life
From the UN,
Silence on War Crimes Enforcement and Conflicts of Interest on
Complaint from Bahrain
En Route to
Deutsche Bank, the UN's Door Revolves, While Ban Ki-moon Arrives and
Moldova Spins
As Two UN
Peacekeepers Are Killed, UN Says Haiti's Improving, Ban Ki-moon on
Zimbabwe?
Nagorno-Karabakh
President Disputes Fires and Numbers, Oil and UN, in
Exclusive Interview with Inner City Press
Inside the UN,
Blaming Uganda's Victims, Excusing Annan on Mugabe, and U.S. Blocked
Darfur Trip
U.S. Blocked
Council's Trip to Darfur Meeting, Brazzaville Envoy Explains After U.S.
Casts a Veto
At the UN,
Council Works Overtime To Cancel Its Trip About Darfur, While DC Muses
on John Bolton
UN Panel's
"Coherence" Plan Urges More Power to UNDP, Despite Its Silence on Human
Rights
On Water, UNDP
Talks Human Rights, While Enabling Violations in Africa and Asia, With
Shell and Coca-Cola
Will UN's
Revolving Door Keep Human Rights Lost, Like Bush's Call and WFP
Confirmation Questions?
On Somalia, We
Are All Ill-Informed, Says the UN, Same on Uganda, Lurching Toward UNDP
Power Grab
On WFP, Annan and
Ban Ki-Moon Hear and See No Evil, While Resume of Josette Sheeran
Shiner Is Edited
Would Moon
Followers Trail Josette Sheeran Shiner into WFP, As to U.S. State Dep't?
At the UN,
Positions Are Up For the Grabbing, Sun's Silence on Censorship, Advisor
Grabs for Gun
In WFP Race,
Josette Sheeran Shiner Praises Mega Corporations from Cornfield While
State Spins
At the UN,
Housing Subsidy Spin, Puntland Mysteries of UNDP and the Panama Solution
In Campaign to
Head UN WFP, A Race to Precedents' Depths, A Murky Lame Duck Appointment
At the UN, Gbagbo
and his Gbaggage, Toxic Waste and Congolese Sanctions
WFP Brochure-Gate?
John Bolton Has Not Seen Brochure of "Official" U.S. Candidate to Head
World Food Program
Ivory Coast
Stand-Off Shows Security Council Fault Lines: News Analysis
At the UN,
It's Groundhog's Day on Western Sahara, Despite Fishing Deals and
Flaunting of the Law
"Official" U.S.
Candidate to Head WFP Circulates Brochure With Pulitzer Claim, UN Staff
Rules Ignored
Senegal's
President Claims Peace in Casamance and Habre Trial to Come, A Tale of
Two Lamines
A Tale of Two
Americans Vying to Head the World Food Program, Banbury and Sheeran
Shiner
At the UN, the
Unrepentant Blogger Pronk, a Wink on 14 North Korean Days and Silence
on Somalia
At the UN,
Literacy Losses in Chad, Blogless Pronk and Toothless Iran Resolution,
How Our World Turns
Sudan Pans Pronk
While Praising Natsios, UN Silent on Haiti and WFP, Ivorian Fingers
Crossed
UN Shy on North
Korea, Effusive on Bird Flu and Torture, UNDP Cyprus Runaround, Pronk
is Summoned Home
At the UN,
Silence from UNDP on Cyprus, from France on the Chad-Bomb, Jan Pronk's
Sudan Blog
Russia's Vostok
Battalion in Lebanon Despite Resolution 1701, Assembly Stays Deadlocked
and UNDP Stays Missing
As
Turkmenistan Cracks Down on Journalists, Hospitals and Romance, UNDP
Works With the Niyazov Regime
At the UN, Darfur
Discussed, Annan Eulogized and Oil For Food Confined to a Documentary
Footnote
With All Eyes
on Council Seat, UN is Distracted from Myanmar Absolution and Congo
Conflagration
As Venezuela and
Guatemala Square Off, Dominicans In Default and F.C. Barcelona De-Listed
At the UN, North
Korea Sanctions Agreed On, Naval Searches and Murky Weapons Sales
At the UN,
Georgia Speaks of Ethnic Cleansing While Russia Complains of Visas
Denied by the U.S.
At the UN,
Deference to the Congo's Kabila and Tank-Sales to North Korea, of
Slippery Eels and Sun Microsystems
At the UN,
Annan's Africa Advisor Welcome Chinese Investment, Dodges Zimbabwe,
Nods to Darfur
Georgia on its
Mind, Russia Delays North Korea Nuclear Resolution with Abkhazia
Allusions
At the UN,
Richard Goldstone Presses Enforcement on Joseph Kony, Reflecting Back
on Karadzic
The UN Shrugs on
Congolese Warlords, While UNDP Assists Sudanese Justice, and OIOS Is In
Hiding
Hungarian
Revolutions Past and Present, Kissinger to UN and Ban Ki-Moon Speaks,
Of Needs and Refugees
UN Defers on
Anti-Terror Safeguards to Member States, Even in Pakistan and Somalia
Afghanistan
as Black Hole for Info and Torture Tales, Photos and Talk Mogadishu,
the UN Afterhours
Amid UN's Korean
Uproar, Russia Silent on Murder of Anna Politkovskaya, Chechnya Exposer
UN Envoy Makes
Excuses for Gambian Strongman, Whitewashing Fraud- and Threat-Filled
Election
U.S. Calls for
Annan and Ban Ki-moon to Publicly Disclose Finances, As U.S. Angles for
5-Year WFP Appointment
Sudan's UN
Envoy Admits Right to Intervene in Rwanda, UNICEF Response on Terrorist
Groups in Pakistan
UN's Annan Dodges
Danger and Set-Backs in Gabon, Geneva, Tibet, Sudan, Disclosure Form
Also for Successor?
At the UN, Ban
Ki-Moon's Track Record on Myanmar Criticized by ASEAN Parliamentarians
on Human Rights
At the UN, Cagey
Council President of the GA on the Bottom of the Sea, of Stolen Chairs,
Uzbek Human Rights and Georgia
At the UN, As
Next S-G is Chosen, Annan Claims Power to Make 5-Year Appointments,
Quiet Filing and Ivory Coast Concessions
Chaos in UN's
Somalia Policy, Working With Islamists Under Sanctions While Meeting
with Private Military Contractors
U.S. Candidate
for UN's World Food Program May Get Lame Duck Appointment, Despite
Korean Issues
At the
UN, U.S. Versus Axis of Airport, While Serge Brammertz Measures
Non-Lebanese Teeth
Exclusion from
Water Is Called Progress, of Straw Polls and WFP Succession
William Swing
Sings Songs of Congo's Crisis, No Safeguards on Coltan Says Chairman of
Intel
Warlord in the
Waldorf and Other Congo Questions Dodged by the UN in the Time Between
Elections
In Some New
Orleans, Questions Echo from the South Bronx and South Lebanon
In New Orleans,
While Bone Is Thrown in Superdome, Parishes Still In Distress
At the UN, Tales
of Media Muzzled in Yemen, Penned in at the Waldorf on Darfur, While
Copters Grounded
US's Frazer
Accuses Al-Bashir of Sabotage, Arab League of Stinginess, Chavez of
Buying Leaders -
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Third Day of UN
General Debate Gets Surreal, Canapes and Killings, Questions on Iran
and Montenegro and Still Somalia
On Darfur, Hugo
Chavez Asks for More Time to Study, While Planning West Africa Oil
Refinery
At the UN, Ivory
Coast Discussed Without Decision on Toxic Politics, the Silence of
Somalia
Evo Morales
Blames Strike on Mobbed-Up Parasites, Sings Praise of Coca Leaf and
Jabs at Coca-Cola
Musharraf Says
Unrest in Baluchistan Is Waning, While Dodging Question on Restoring
Civilian Rule
At the UN, Cyprus
Confirms 'Paramilitary' Investigation, Denies Connection to Def Min
Resignation, CBTB Update
A Tale of Three
Leaders, Liberia Comes to Praise and Iran and Sudan to Bury the UN
Behind the UN
Speeches, A Thai Coup, Somali Assassins and Hit-and-Run Chirac Ignoring
Ivory Coast
Annan Pitches UN
With No Mention of Reform; EU President Dodges Human Rights and
Micro-States
UN Round-up:
Poland's President Says Iraq Is Ever-More Tense While Amb. Bolton Talks
Burmese Drugs, Spin on Ivory Coast
As UN's Annan Now
Says He Will Disclose, When and Whether It Will Be to the Public and
Why It Took So Long Go Unasked
At the UN,
Stonewalling Continues on Financial Disclosure and Letter(s) U.S.
Mission Has, While Zimbabwe Goes Ignored
At the UN,
Financial Disclosure Are Withheld While Freedom of Information Is
Promised, Of Hollywood and Dictators' Gift Shops
UN's Annan Says
Dig Into Toxic Dumping, While Declining to Discuss Financial Disclosure
A Still-Unnamed
Senior UN Official in NY Takes Free Housing from His Government,
Contrary to UN Staff Regulations
UN Admits To
Errors in its Report on Destruction of Congolese Village of Kazana,
Safeguards Not In Place
As UN Checks
Toxins in Abidjan, the Dumper Trafigura Figured in Oil for Food
Scandal, Funded by RBS and BNP Paribas
Targeting of
African Americans For High Cost Mortgages Grew Worse in 2005, While Fed
Downplays Its Own Findings
The UN and
Nagorno-Karabakh: Flurries of Activity Leave Frozen Conflicts
Unchanged; Updates on Gaza, Gavels and Gbagbo
The UN Cries Poor
on Lawless Somalia, While Its Ex-Security Chief Does Business Through
Ruleless Revolving Door
At the UN,
Micro-States Simmer Under the Assembly's Surface, While Incoming
Council President Dodges Most Questions
"Horror Struck"
is How UN Officials Getting Free Housing from Governments Would Leave
U.S., Referral on Burma But Not Uzbekistan
Security Council
President Condemns UN Officials Getting Free Housing from Governments,
While UK "Doesn't Do It Any More"
At the UN,
Incomplete Reforms Allow for Gifts of Free Housing to UN Officials by
Member States
Rare UN Sunshine
From If Not In Chad While Blind on Somalia and Zimbabwe, UNDP With
Shell in its Ear on Nigeria
Annan Family Ties
With Purchaser from Compass, Embroiled in UN Scandal, Raise Unanswered
Ethical Questions
At the UN, from
Casamance to Transdniestria, Kosovars to Lezgines, Micro-States as
Powerful's Playthings
Inquiry Into
Housing Subsidies Contrary to UN Charter Goes Ignored for 8 Weeks, As
Head UN Peacekeeper Does Not Respond
Congo Shootout
Triggers Kofi Annan Call, While Agent Orange Protest Yields Email from
Old London
On the UN -
Corporate Beat, Dow Chemical Luncheon Chickens Come Home to Roost
UN Bets the House
on Lebanon, While Willfully Blind in Somalia and Pinned Down in Kinshasa
Stop Bank
Branch Closings and Monopolies in the Katrina Zone, Group Says,
Challenging Regions- AmSouth Merger
Ship-Breakers
Missed by UN's Budget for Travel and Consultants in Bangladesh, Largest
UNIFIL Troop Donor
Sudan Cites
Hezbollah, While UN Dances Around Issues of Consent and Sex Abuse in
the Congo, Passing the UNIFIL Hat
With Somalia on
the Brink of Horn-Wide War, UN Avoids Question of Ethiopian Invasion
In UN's Lebanon
Frenzy, Darfur Is Ignored As Are the Disabled, "If You Crave UNIFIL,
Can't You Make Do With MONUC?"
UN Decries
Uzbekistan's Use of Torture, While Helping It To Tax and Rule; Updates
on UNIFIL and UNMIS Off-Message
At the UN,
Lebanon Resolution Passes with Loophole, Amb. Gillerman Says It Has All
Been Defensive
On Lebanon,
Russian Gambit Focuses Franco-American Minds, Short Term Resolution
Goes Blue Amid Flashes of Lightening
Africa Can Solve
Its Own Problems, Ghanaian Minister Tells Inner City Press, On LRA
Peace Talks and Kofi Annan's Views
At the UN, Jay-Z
Floats Past Questions on Water Privatization and Sweatshops, Q'Orianka
Kilcher in the Basement
In the UN
Security Council, Speeches and Stasis as Haiti is Forgotten, for a
Shebaa Farms Solution?
UN Silence on
Congo Election and Uranium, Until It's To Iran or After a Ceasefire,
and Council Rift on Kony
At the UN Some
Middle Eastern Answers, Updates on Congo and Nepal While Silence on
Somalia
On Lebanon,
Franco-American Resolution Reviewed at UN in Weekend Security Council
Meeting
UN Knew of Child
Soldier Use by Two Warlords Whose Entry into Congo Army the UN
Facilitated
At the UN,
Disinterest in Zimbabwe, Secrecy on Chechnya, Congo Polyanna and
Ineptitude on Somalia
Impunity's in the
Air, at the UN in Kinshasa and NY, for Kony and Karim and MONUC for
Kazana
UN Still Silent
on Somalia, Despite Reported Invasion, In Lead-Up to More Congo Spin
UN's Guehenno
Says Congo Warlord Just Needs Training, and Kazana Probe Continues
With Congo
Elections Approaching, UN Issues Hasty Self-Exoneration as Annan Is
Distracted
In DR Congo, UN
Applauds Entry into Army of Child-Soldier Commander Along with Kidnapper
Spinning the
Congo, UN Admits Hostage Deal with Warlord That Put Him in Congolese
Army
At the UN, Dow
Chemical's Invited In, While Teaming Up With Microsoft is Defended
Kofi Annan
Questioned about Congolese Colonel Who Kidnapped Seven UN Soldiers
At the UN,
Speeches While Gaza Stays Lightless and Insurance Not Yet Paid
At the UN Poorest
Nations Discussed, Disgust at DRC Short Shrift, Future UN Justice?
At the UN
Wordsmiths Are At Work on Zimbabwe, Kony, Ivory Coast and Iran
UN Silent As
Congolese Kidnapper of UN Peacekeepers Is Made An Army Colonel: News
Analysis
At the UN, New
Phrase Passes Resolution called Gangster-Like by North Korea; UK Deputy
on the Law(less)
UN's Guehenno
Speaks of "Political Overstretch" Undermining Peacekeeping in Lower
Profile Zones
In Gaza Power
Station, the Role of Enron and the U.S. Government's OPIC Revealed by
UN Sources
At UN, North
Korean Knot Attacked With Fifty Year Old Precedent, Game Continues Into
Weekend
UN's Corporate
Partnerships Will Be Reviewed, While New Teaming Up with Microsoft, and
UNDP Continues
Gaza Resolution
Vetoed by U.S., While North Korea Faces Veto and Chechnya Unread
BTC Briefing,
Like Pipeline, Skirts Troublespots, Azeri Revelations
Conflicts of
Interest in UNHCR Program with SocGen and Pictet Reveal Reform Rifts
At the UN, A Day
of Resolutions on Gaza, North Korea and Iran, Georgia as Side Dish
UN Grapples with
Somalia, While UNDP Funds Mugabe's Human Rights Unit, Without
Explanation
In North Korean
War of Words, Abuses in Uganda and Impunity Go Largely Ignored
On North Korea,
Blue Words Move to a Saturday Showdown, UNDP Uzbek Stonewall
As the World
Turns in Uganda and Korea, the UN Speaks only on Gaza, from Geneva
North Korea in
the UN: Large Arms Supplant the Small, and Confusion on Uganda
UN Gives Mugabe
Time with His Friendly Mediator, Refugees Abandoned
At the UN, Friday
Night's Alright for Fighting; Annan Meets Mugabe
UN Acknowledges
Abuse in Uganda, But What Did Donors Know and When? Kazakh Questions
In Uganda, UNDP
to Make Belated Announcement of Program Halt, But Questions Remain (and see The New
Vision, offsite).
Disarmament Abuse
in Uganda Leads UN Agency to Suspend Its Work and Spending
Disarmament Abuse
in Uganda Blamed on UNDP, Still Silent on Finance
Alleged
Abuse in Disarmament in Uganda Known by UNDP, But Dollar Figures Still
Not Given: What Did UN Know and When?
Strong Arm on
Small Arms: Rift Within UN About Uganda's Involuntary Disarmament of
Karamojong Villages
UN in Denial on
Sudan, While Boldly Predicting the Future of Kosovo/a
UN's
Selective Vision on Somalia and Wishful Thinking on Uighurs
UN Habitat
Predicts The World Is a Ghetto, But Will Finance Be Addressed at
Vancouver World Urban Forum?
At the UN, a
Commando Unit to Quickly Stop Genocide is Proposed, by Diplomatic Sir
Brian Urquhart
UN's Annan
Concerned About Use of Terror's T-Word to Repress, Wants Freedom of
Information
UN Waffles
on Human Rights in Central Asia and China; ICC on Kony and a Hero from
Algiers
At the UN,
Internal Justice Needs Reform, While in Timor Leste, Has Evidence Gone
Missing?
UN
& US, Transparency for Finance But Not Foreign Affairs: Somalia,
Sovereignty and Senator Tom Coburn
In Bolton's Wake,
Silence and Speech at the UN, Congo and Kony, Let the Games Begin
Pro-Poor Talk and
a Critique of the World Trade Organization from a WTO Founder: In UN
Lull, Ugandan Fog and Montenegrin Mufti
Human Rights
Forgotten in UN's War of Words, Bolton versus Mark Malloch Brown: News
Analysis
In Praise of
Migration, UN Misses the Net and Bangalore While Going Soft on
Financial Exclusion
UN Sees Somalia
Through a Glass, Darkly, While Chomsky Speaks on Corporations and
Everything But Congo
AIDS Ends at the
UN? Side Deals on Patents, Side Notes on Japanese Corporations,
Salvadoran and Violence in Burundi
On AIDS at the UN,
Who Speaks and Who Remains Unseen
Corporate Spin on
AIDS, Holbrooke's Kudos to Montenegro and its Independence
(May 31, 2006)
In Congo,
Peacekeepers Turned Hostages: Interview with Jean-Marie Guehenno by
Inner City Press
On AIDS at the UN
Perspectives Vary, Some Civil Skeptics and Many Non-reporting Countries
World Bank Blinded
by 'Surging Capital Flows' - Quantity Not Quality Exalted in Bank's New
Global Development Finance Report
On Congo,
Cognitive Dissonance at the UN, While UK Calls for Crackdown on LRA's
Joseph Kony
Conflict Cocoa in
Cote D'Ivoire But Maybe No Election; In Security Council, Late Night on
Timor L'Este; In Kosovo, UN Uses Tear Gas Though the Spin
At the UN,
Too-Rosy Light on Myanmar, More Clarification on Timor L'Este and a
Dance
At UN, Silence
Greets Birth of a Nation, Montenegro, and Continuing Collapse of
Another, Somalia
Reports from the
Other New York: Bronx Ambulance Was Slow, and Chase to Close Four
Branches in Low and Moderate Income Tracts
Kinshasa Election
Nightmares, from Ituri to Kasai. Au Revoir Allan Rock; the UN's
Belly-Dancing
Working with
Warlords, Insulated by Latrines: Somalia and Pakistan Addressed at the
UN
The Silence of the
Congo and Naomi Watts; Between Bolivia and the World Bank
Human Rights
Council Has Its Own Hanging Chads; Cocky U.S. State Department Spins
from SUVs
Child Labor and
Cargill and Nestle; Iran, Darfur and WHO's on First with Bird Flu
Press Freedom?
Editor Arrested by Congo-Brazzaville, As It Presides Over Security
Council
The Place of the Cost-Cut UN in
Europe's Torn-Up Heart;
Deafness to Consumers, Even by the Greens
Background Checks
at the UN, But Not the Global Compact; Teaching Statistics from
Turkmenbashi's Single Book
Ripped Off Worse
in the Big Apple, by Citigroup and Chase: High Cost Mortgages Spread in
Outer Boroughs in 2005, Study Finds
Burundi: Chaos at
Camp for Congolese Refugees, Silence from UNHCR, While Reform's Debated
by Forty Until 4 AM
In Liberia, From
Nightmare to Challenge; Lack of Generosity to Egeland's CERF, Which
China's Asked About
A Tale of Two
Citi's: Sandy Lives Richly While UN Begs for Refugees and Darfur is
Debated
The Chadian
Mirage: Beyond French Bombs, Is Exxon In the Cast? Asylum and the
Uzbeks, Shadows of Stories to Come
Through the UN's
One-Way Mirror, Sustainable Development To Be Discussed by
Corporations, Even Nuclear Areva
Racial Disparities
Grew Worse in 2005 at Citigroup, HSBC and Other Large Banks
Mine Your Own
Business: Explosive Remnants of War and the Great Powers, Amid the
Paparazzi
Human Rights Are
Lost in the Mail: DR Congo Got the Letter, But the Process is Still
Murky
Iraq's Oil to be
Metered by Shell, While Basrah Project Remains Less than Clear
At the UN, Dues
Threats and Presidents-Elect, Unanswered Greek Mission Questions
Kofi, Kony, Kagame
and Coltan: This Moment in the Congo and Kampala
As Operation
Swarmer Begins, UN's Qazi Denies It's Civil War and Has No Answers if
Iraq's Oil is Being Metered
Cash Crop: In
Nepal, Bhutanese Refugees Prohibited from Income Generation Even in
their Camps
The Shorted and
Shorting in Humanitarian Aid: From Davos to Darfur, the Numbers Don't
Add Up
UN Reform:
Transparency Later, Not Now -- At Least Not for AXA - WFP Insurance
Contract
In Congolese
Chaos, Shots Fired at U.N. Helicopter Gunship
In the Sudanese
Crisis, Oil Revenue Goes Missing, UN Says
Empty Words on
Money Laundering and Narcotics, from the UN and Georgia
In Locked Down
Iraq, Oil Flows Unmetered While Questions Run in Circles
What is the Sound
of Eleven Uzbeks Disappearing? A Lack of Seats in Tashkent, a Turf War
at UN
In a Bronx
Basement, Complaints Linger Long After Lease Is Signed
Kosovo: Of
Collective Punishment and Electricity; Lights Out on Privatization of
Ferronikeli Mines
Live from Gracie
Mansion: Mayor Bloomberg’s Media Bragging Fest Sounds Far Away From The
Bronx
Predatory Super
Bowl: Ameriquest and the Big Banks in Detroit
Abkhazia:
Cleansing and (Money) Laundering, Says Georgia, Even Terror’s Haven
Post-Tsunami Human
Rights Abuses, including by UNDP in the Maldives
Halliburton Repays
$9 Million, While Iraq’s Oil Remains Unmetered
Argent Mortgage
Layoffs, One Week After Ameriquest's $235 Predatory Lending Settlement
Ameriquest
Settlement: What Does $325 Million Buy? Carte Blanche to Gouge
Consumers (and Get Out of Jail as Ambassador to Holland)
Predatory Lending
Settlement Leaves Out Ameriquest’s Largest Lender, Argent, Critics Say
Darfur on the
Margins: Slovenia’s President Drnovsek’s Quixotic Call for Action
Ignored
Who Pays for the
Global Bird Flu Fight? Not the Corporations, So Far - UN
Yankees’ Proposal
to Take Parkland Panned at City Planning Hearing
Royal Bank of
Scotland Has Repeatedly Been Linked to Terrorist Finance and Money
Laundering, Not Only in the Current Brooklyn Case
From Appalachia to
Wall Street: Behind the Mining Tragedy, UBS and Lehman Brothers
Iraqis Absent from
Oil Oversight Meeting on Development Fund for Iraq, Purportedly Due to
Visa Problems
Watching the
Detectives: Oversight of the Development Fund for Iraq Will be
Discussed at the UN on December 28, 2005
From the UN
Budget, Transit Strike, to the USA Patriot Act, 2005 Ends with
Extensions
Just-ended NYC
Transit Strike Leaves Bronxites in the Dark and Cold
Kofi Annan's
Press Conference on December 21: Background to Blowup
Bank Beat: Layoffs
in Cleveland by Royal Bank of Scotland
Soldiers Denied
Benefits of Servicemembers Relief Act: A Study
Money Laundering
News from Georgia, Nauru and Chile
Citigroup
Dissembles at United Nations Environmental Conference
Some
previous highlights and special reports:
Ameriquest
Offers $325 Million in Predatory Settlement
The United
Nations' Year of Microcredit: Questions & No Answers
Bronx Policing and
the Mayor
Fed Watch: Bernanke and Moral Hazard
Back Drafts Don’t
Take Place in a
Vacuum: Report on Bronx' Fire
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Inner City Press archives: TWU Strike? Dec.
16, 2002
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