The UN
Cries Poor on Lawless Somalia, While Its Ex-Security Chief Does Business Through
Ruleless Revolving Door
Byline:
Matthew Russell Lee at the UN
UNITED NATIONS,
September 6 -- The UN accepts military intelligence from governments it will not
name, because the member states refuse to provide funds for such intelligence,
the head of the UN Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari said Wednesday. Inner City
Press had asked about Somalia, and UN DPA's previous statement that it relies
for information on its office in Nairobi, which says it has no monitoring
mandate in Somalia.
"That it
is based in Nairobi is instructive," answered Mr. Gambari, adding that the UN is
keeping a close eye on Somalia and is "doing the best we can." He explained the
lack of plans for any UN force to Somalia in terms of the lack of financing,
pointing to the African Union's shortfall for its Darfur mission. "Where is the
financing?" asked Prof. Gambari. He suggested increased use of such UN agencies
and affiliates as the humanitarian unit OCHA and the UN Development Program.
Mr.
Gambari's response was decidedly more restrained that a recent online commentary
by the ex-UN head of security for Somalia, American Wayne Long, who last month
wrote of U.S. strategy in Somalia:
"in order to win a
war like this at least cost in US lives, a true superpower plays the Great Game.
Playing the black hats against the blacker hats of America's enemies saves US
military lives and treasure - HELLO!!!"
Call it
conflict prevention. The above is online, as of September 6, at
http://www.topix.net/forum/news/terrorism/TFEQTCJO1PABE9RG9
On September 6 at UN Headquarters, Inner
City Press again asked about the reports of Ethiopian troops in Somalia and how
the UN might at least confirm this. Mr. Gambari responded that "some governments
share some intelligence, I don't want to mention names. Otherwise we would have
no capacity. Member-states would not welcome the enhancement of the Secretariat
in terms of intelligence gathering." Video
here,
from Minute 49:15.
Somalia
per UN: Money Can Be Made
On UN Ethics, A Long Hypothetical --
Wayne Long, That Is
Inner
City Press' sources in Somalia provide a quite different picture of
member-states' actions and intelligence gathering in Somalia, which is recounted
here including to serves as a hypothetical for reform. They say that retired
general William Garrison, who commanded U.S. forces in Somalia in 1993 and for
identification purposes was played by Sam Shepherd in the movie Black Hawk
Down, has been plotting for some time to open a private, for profit airport
or landing strip in Somalia, and more recently to buy and run an airline,
Trackmark. They say that Garrison's entrepreneurialism, which may also not be
unrelated to intelligence gathering, is being assisted by Wayne Long, who was
previously the United Nations' head of security in Somalia. Mr. Long is an
American, graduate of Texas A&M.
Apparently unlike the UN Political Office on Somalia, Inner City Press in
pursuing its monitoring mandate remains in contact with informed sources, and
even... consults "open source" resources, otherwise known as the Internet.
Whereon one finds ex-UN staffer Wayne Long, hiding in plain site. Listing his
address, accurately, as Nairobi, Kenya, Mr. Long on August 3, 2006 posted an
exasperated comment of a (U.S.) true believer:
"in order to win a
war like this at least cost in US lives, a true superpower plays the Great Game.
Playing the black hats against the blacker hats of America's enemies saves US
military lives and treasure - HELLO!!!"
This is
online, as of September 6, at
http://www.topix.net/forum/news/terrorism/TFEQTCJO1PABE9RG9
Slightly more
diplomatic, writing as Wayne E. Long he has published an op-ed in the
International Herald Tribune urging the U.S. to beef up its military with
immigrants with green cards; the IHT op-ed, of March 1, 2006, identified him
only as "a retired colonel in the U.S. Army," nothing about the UN.
Contrary
to Ibrahim Gambari's statement Wednesday that the UN must rely on unnamed
governments for intelligence, some close observers note that the UN's operations
in Somalia and places like it are "top-heavy with Americans," in part so that
the U.S. can gather intelligence either on-the-cheap and/or under cover of the
UN's blue flag. The revolving door profit making comes later (but may also be
connected).
As
summarized by an Inner City Press source who has seen Mr. Long, in this case the
UN employed as its chief security officer in a volatile country a gung-ho,
red-blooded "use the black hats" American, who since leaving the UN is
reportedly cashing in with dodgy business ventures in the same country in which
he represented the United Nations.
Wednesday
afternoon Inner City Press asked UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric for an
on-the-record statement about the existence or non-existence within the present
UN, or that UN envisioned by Kofi Annan's reform proposals, of any safeguards
against revolving doors by which former UN officials could make money in the
locales of their UN tour of duty, using their UN contacts. A closed place UN
source, insisting on not being identified, said he doubts any current rules
prohibit it, since the rules were "made in the 1950s." Speaking on-the-record,
Mr. Dujarric said he had asked upstairs and would provide an answer later on
Wednesday. After 7 p.m. the following was provided to Inner City Press as an official
on-the-record statement of the UN on its policy:
"After leaving
its employment, the United Nations expects its staff members to conduct
themselves in a manner which would not bring disrepute to the organization.
"The current UN staff
rules and regulations only apply to serving staff. There are currently
discussions in-house focusing on the subject of post-employment restrictions so
as to avoid any possible conflict of interest. Substantive changes to staff
rules would need to be approved by the General Assembly."
The General
Assembly meetings are about to begin. But it does not appear that Mr. Annan
included any anti-resolving door or post-employment safeguards in his package of
proposed reforms. Developing...
UN-Heard on Uighurs
The UN's
Alliance of Civilizations, or at least its High Level Group, has met in New York
for the past two days. There have been stakeouts for photographer in the UN
basement, on Tuesday, and on 1st Avenue and 46th Street on Thursday. The main
"get," fruitlessly pursued by TV and print reporters, has been ex-Iranian
president Katami. Following remarks he made in Chicago on his way to New York he
has decided, or it has been decided for him, to not speak to the press.
Appearing
for a press conference Wednesday were the co-chairs of the Alliance,
Mr. Federico
Mayor of Spain and Mr. Mehmet Aydin of Turkey. The latter began by demanding
that questions relate solely to the Alliance and its work. Okay then.
Back in June 2006,
Inner City Press asked Messrs. Mayor and Aydin what the Alliance was doing to
the East, in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Mr. Mayor back in June
said, good question, and pointed out that there are representatives of China and
India in the high level group. It's not just about Muslims and the West, they
said.
Now the Alliance's website
uses as two of its three lead examples precisely this phrasing: the West, or
Western societies. Click
here to
view. So on Wednesday Inner City Press asked what the Alliance has done, even in
speaking to its Chinese representative Pan Guang, about the treatment of Uighurs,
including those freed from Guantanamo Bay but now in limbo in Albania. (Most
recently, it is reported that if Albania does not refoule these Uighurs,
China's Security Council veto may impact the pending status talks on Kosovo.)
"You are absolutely right,"
said Mr. Mayor, who went on to saying that in China "the authoritarian
mechanisms are still there," and that the Alliance has to "denounce realities as
they are." A fellow journalist noted that no concrete actions were mentioned in
response (video
here,
from 30:30 to 31:30). Mr. Mayor said that the Alliance is deciding what to
report and recommend to the Secretary General, "not only on religion but also on
freedom of expression."
On that, note that Uzbekistan
has mostly recently
denied the right of counsel to
folk singer Dadakhon Khasanov, indicted by the Karimov government, for his song
"Andijan." Click
here to
hear and download an MP3 of the song, and pass it on.
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At the
UN, Micro-States Simmer Under the Assembly's Surface, While Incoming Council
President Dodges Most Questions
Byline:
Matthew Russell Lee at the UN
UNITED NATIONS,
September 5 -- Nagorno Karabakh, one of the world most frozen and forgotten
conflicts, surfaced at the UN on Tuesday, if only for ten minutes. The General
Assembly was scheduled to vote on a resolution concerning fires in the occupied
territories of Azerbaijan. The diplomats assembled, or began to assemble, at 4
p.m.. At 4:15 it was announced that in light of ongoing negotiations, the
meeting was cancelled, perhaps to reconvene Wednesday at 11:30.
Sources
close to the negotiations told Inner City Press that the rub is paragraph 4 of
the draft resolution, which requests that the Secretary-General report to the UN
General Assembly on the conflict. Armenia wants the matter to remain before the
Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which
has presided over the problem for more than a decade. Leading the OSCE's Minsk
Group are Russia, France and the United States, members of the veto-wielding
Permanent Five on the UN Security Council, nations which Azerbaijan claims have
ignored its sovereignty as well as blocking Security Council action, as for
example Russia has on Chechnya.
Of the
fires, Azerbaijan has characterized them as Armenian arson, and has asked for
international pressure to allow it to reach the disputed territories where the
fires have been.
Nagorno-Karabakh,
per WFP
At a July
13, 2006 briefing on the BTC pipeline, Inner City Press asked the Ambassador of
Azerbaijan Yashar Aliyev about the pipeline's avoidance of Armenia. We cannot
deal with them until they stop occupying our territory, Ambassador Aliyev said.
"You mean Nagorno - Karabakh?" Not only that, Amb. Aliyev answered. That's only
four percent. Few people know this, but Armenia has occupied twenty percent of
our territory.
Both
Amenia's Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian and UN Ambassador Armen Martirosian
have said publicly in the past month that if Azerbaijan continues pushing the
issue before the United Nations, the existing peace talks will stop. Armenian
sources privately speak more darkly of an alliance of Georgia, Ukraine,
Azerbaijan and Moldova, collectively intent on involving the UN in reigning in
their breakaway regions including South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh and
Transdniestria -- examples of what some call the micro-states. Armenia is
concerned that in the UN as opposed to OSCE, Azerbaijan might be able to rally
Islamic nations to its side.
It is not
only to predominantly Muslim nations that the Azeri's are reaching out. The
nation's foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov met recently with this Swedish
counterpart Jan Eliasson, the outgoing president of the General Assembly.
Following
Tuesday's General Assembly postponement, Inner City Press asked Mr. Eliasson if,
in light of his involvement in reaching the 1994 cease-fire, he thinks the GA
might have more luck solving the Nagorno-Karabakh than the OSCE has.
"I hope
so," he said. "I'm in favor of an active General Assembly." He recounted his
shuttle diplomacy to Baku in the early 90s. And then he was gone.
Elsewhere
in the UN at Tuesday, the income president of the Security Council, Greek
Ambassador Adamantios Vassilakis held a press conference on the Council's plan
of work for September. Inner City Press
asked when
the Council will get the long-awaited briefing on violations of the arms embargo
on Somalia. Amb. Vassilakis responded about a meeting on September 25, at
Kenya's request, on the idea of the IGAD force in Somalia. Inner City Press
asked what has happened with the resolution on the Lord's Resistance Army of
which the UK has spoken so much. It will be up to them to introduce the motion,"
Amb. Vassilakis replied. He did not reply on the issue of the outstanding
International Criminal Court indictments against LRA leaders including Joseph
Kony and Vincent Otti.
Inner
City Press asked why, on Ivory Coast, the long-delayed report by the
Secretary-General's expert on the prevention of genocide has not been released.
In this response, Amb. Vassilakis grew animated, saying that one has to choose
between justice and peace. This implies that the finished report identifies
alleged perpetrators, as pertains to genocide, but is being withheld either to
facilitate peace, which has not come, or as negotiating leverage over some of
the perpetrators. To be continued, throughout the month.
Rare UN Sunshine From If Not In Chad While Blind on Somalia and Zimbabwe, UNDP
With Shell in its Ear on Nigeria
BYLINE:
Matthew Russell Lee at the UN
UNITED
NATIONS, August 29 -- In Chad there are ninety political parties and over
seventy rebel groups, with a focus on overthrowing Idriss Deby. Meanwhile Deby
last Friday
ordered Chevron and Petronas out of the
country, for failure to pay
taxes.
Chad is the
fifth poorest country in the world, with countries in turmoil or trouble along
at least half of its perimeter. To the west,
Niger and
to the east, on the other side of camps housing over 200,000 refugees from
Darfur, lies Sudan. To the south, the Central African Republic with its own
rebel groups. In the tri-border area of the Sudan, Chad and the CAR is a
lawless zone of mercenaries for hire, and area none of the three governments
control.
Tuesday
the head of the UN's operations in Chad, Kingsley Amaning, provided reporters a
lengthy and well-received briefing. He began by sketching how the situation in
Darfur is further destabilizing Chad, spreading ethnic conflict and banditry
across borders. Mr. Amaning said that alongside 90 political parties, the roster
of rebel groups has grown from 47 to 72. Inner City Press asked, as even invited
political parties have,
why the rebels are excluded from Deby's new national dialogue. There are a dozen
refugee camps in eastern Chad, each with fifteen to twenty thousand residents,
in a region where the average town size is only three thousand. In fact, Mr.
Amaning said, right now "the quality of life of the refugees is higher than the
quality of life of the local population."
Mr.
Amaning, originally from Ghana and having previously served the UN in Guinea,
has been in Chad for a year and a half. During that time, rebels marching on the
capital N'djamena were stopped only by a bomb dropped by the French air force. A
colleague of Mr. Amaning, OCHA Chad desk officer Aurelien Buffler, noted in an
interview that the official description of the French bomb was a "warming shot."
He added that Chad is not even on the agenda of the Security Council and that
raising funds for development is difficult, since donors don't know where the
money goes. Later this week 25 donors led by Canada will meet with Mr. Amaning
in UN Headquarters. The dichotomy seems to be that while emergency humanitarian
funds can be raised, long-term funds for development are more difficult. Mr.
Amaning said, "Humanitarians get resources, but we don't follow up political
solutions with development so that people have jobs."
Refugees
in Chad per UNHCR
Inner
City Press interviewed Mr. Amaning after the briefing, and asked him first about
specific vulnerable refugee camps near the border with Darfur, Am Nabak and Ouve
Casson. Mr. Amaning confirmed that these camps will be moved, belated, to a lot
north of Biltine, now that it's thought there is underground water on the
government-owned site.
Turning
to history, the UN Security Council, history and one of its veto-wielding
Permanent Five, Inner City Press asked about France's involvement. Mr. Amaning
said that the UN principles are to oppose violent takeovers and to encourage
dialogue. "I tell the French Ambassador that instead of trying to explain what
type of intervention that was," Mr. Amaning said, referring to France's
bomb-drop in support of Idriss Deby, "they should say they did it on behalf of
the international community, so there would be no violent overthrow."
Speaking
more generally, or regionally, Mr. Amaning said, "If we do not stabilize Darfur,"
weapons will continue to spread throughout the region. "It's a line that's going
to join up... from DRC through Central Africa to the northern part of Uganda, to
Chad and the Sudan -- where are we going?" At least Mr. Amaning is asking.
For weeks
Inner City Press has asked all and sundry in UN Headquarters to confirm or deny
that Ethiopian troops are present in Somalia. Kofi Annan's representative for
Somalia, Francois Lonseny Fall, skirted the issue despite six questions from
Inner City Press last time he was in New York. Mr. Fall's spokesman has told
Inner City Press to look elsewhere, since his office does not have a monitoring
mandate in Somalia. In a stakeout interview, the head of the UN's Department of
Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari responded with generalities. An email
followed, that DPA relies for information on Mr. Fall's office -- which has not
monitoring mandate.
Kofi
Annan's spokesman's office suggested that Inner City Press contact the members
of the group monitoring the UN's Somalia arms embargo. Group member Joel Salek
confirmed receipt of Inner City Press' request, but said he would "give floor to
Bruno [Schiemsky], the Chairman of our Group, to answer your questions." Time
passed, Inner City Press sent a second request. Mr. Schiemsky responded, "Sorry,
at this stage I have no comments. I need first to brief the Sanctions Committee"
of the Security Council.
Tuesday
at the Security Council stakeout, Inner City Press asked UK Ambassador Emyr
Jones Parry who in the UN can speak regarding Somalia. Amb. Jones Parry
responded that the UK is working on a resolution. Video here.
But when
Inner City Press five minutes later asked the President of the Council, Ghana's
Nana Effah-Apenteng, about Amb. Jones Parry's resolution, the Ghanaian
Ambassador said no resolution has been introduced. Video
here.
Meanwhile the Horn of Africa slides toward regional war.
Earlier
this year at the African Union summit in Banjul, Kofi Annal pulled back from
involvement in Zimbabwe, saying he was deferring to the new mediator Ben Mkapa.
Now documents from the AU submit show that
Mkapa never accepted the role of mediator.
Tuesday Inner City Press asked Kofi Annan's spokesman if this now means that the
Secretary-General will re-engage. Video
here,
at Minute 21:50. The spokesman said he will respond; this has not taken place by
6 p.m. deadline.
Nor as
the spokesman answered Inner City Press' question of Monday, about why
UNDP took funding from Shell Petroleum to
write a report on human development in the Niger Delta, where Shell has a long
record of violating human rights. I will get you an answer, the spokesman said.
We're still waiting [this remains true as of September 6, 2006 - still no
answer.]
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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
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)
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
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
What is the Sound
of Eleven Uzbeks Disappearing? A Lack of Seats in Tashkent, a Turf War
at UN
Kosovo: Of
Collective Punishment and Electricity; Lights Out on Privatization of
Ferronikeli Mines
Abkhazia:
Cleansing and (Money) Laundering, Says Georgia
Post-Tsunami
Human Rights Abuses, including by UNDP in the Maldives
Who Pays for the
Global Bird Flu Fight? Not the Corporations, So Far - UN
Citigroup
Dissembles at United Nations Environmental Conference
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