AP reports: Annan: U.N. Needs New Human Rights Body Read the article. While this is a step in the right direction, his recommendations do not go far enough. I would much prefer to see a headline like this: Annan: U.N Needs New Secretary General Or: Annan: No Need for U.N [...]
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I have a confession to make: Whenever I pass a UN vehicle here in Israel, I make a point of either glaring at the occupants, or, on the odd occasion, yelling out something along the lines of “Go home!” Yes, I know it is not very mature, but it is my way of venting against [...]
PA leader Mahmoud Abbas pins the tail the Bethlehem Honor Medal on the donkey Peter Hansen the donkey Green suits him.
Some UN peacekeepers take the words “UN Aid” too literally (or should that be UN AIDS?) Although U.N. peacekeepers were dispatched to the Congo to keep order and improve the lives of Congolese, some leave behind disease and heartbreak. Juliette, a Congolese woman who had a relationship with a peacekeeper, is the mother of one [...]
UNRWA head and Israel-hater Peter Hansen is ‘stepping down’ from his role. And it would seem that he wants to demonstrate that he is not so biased against Israel after all. Though Hansen has been repeatedly denounced by Israel as an agent for Palestinian terrorist activities, despite denials and proof to the contrary, UNWRA’s Commissioner-General [...]
UN emergency relief head Jan Egeland, who previously called the US and other governments ‘stingy’ with respect to assistance in the wake of the Tsunami, invokes the oft-used “misinterpretation” defence. The United Nations’ emergency relief coordinator said Tuesday that the international response to the tsunami catastrophe in southern Asia has been “very generous” despite earlier [...]
I may be a few days late with this..but this is just too good to ignore. I am, of course, referring to the UN’s International Anti-Corruption Day, which took place on December 9th (Hat tip: Sherry, from AWH). We already knew the UN was hypercritical, but this just goes to show you how hypercritical. You [...]
UN Secretary General Kofi “Monkey Cloud” Annan won’t resign, despite the fact that he is under immense pressure over the UN’s supervision of Iraqi oil sales under the Hussein regime: United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, under fire for his part in the controversial Iraqi oil-for-food program, said in an interview with London’s Financial Times [...]
Kofi Annan’s son, Kojo, apparently did not tell daddy the full story over his links to a company being investigated in the oil-for-food scandal. The United Nations has revealed that the son of the secretary general, Kofi Annan, worked for a company being investigated in the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal for four years longer than he [...]
