Boutros Ghali

December 2, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

Unexpected Miracle in the Holy Land

Thirty years ago, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, an Egyptian politician and diplomat who would go on to become UN Secretary-General in 1992, warned of Middle Eastern wars to come. His prediction was corr...

June 14, 2011 | Claudia Rosett The Journal of International Security Affairs |

Bad Faith Actor

In the pantheon of United Nations causes, Africa by many measures occupies a preeminent role. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has described “the African challenge” as “the highest...

February 6, 2007 | |

At the United Nations, the Curious Career of Maurice Strong

Before the United Nations can save the planet, it needs to clean up its own house. And as scandal after scandal has unfolded over the past decade, from Oil for Food to procurement fraud to peacek...

January 16, 2007 |

UNder the Law

In what surely qualifies as the single-most-promising United Nations reform effort to date, federal prosecutors in New York, jointly with the New York District Attorney, have just announced the i...

October 6, 2006 | TCS Daily |

Going South

Whatever else can be said of the United Nations, it is remarkably predictable. Later this fall the organization will anoint a successor to Secretary-General Kofi Annan who is due to step down aft...

July 19, 2006 | Wall Street Journal |

Central Park

While the United Nations frames its next response to crisis in the Middle East, its last grand venture in that region -- Oil for Food -- has finally resulted in a guilty verdict in open court. La...

July 13, 2006 | National Review Online |

Guilty!

Oil-for-Food has had its first airing in federal court, and the verdict is in. South Korean businessman Tongsun Park was accused of conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein&#0...

July 10, 2006 | National Review Online |

No Free Parking

The United Nations keeps promising transparency. But for a real window on the U.N., skip the pronouncements of Turtle Bay. The better place to look right now is the federal courtroom in lower Man...

June 27, 2006 | Wall Street Journal |

Pictures From an Institution

From Oil-for-Food to peacekeeper rape to bribery in the procurement department, from nepotism to fraud to theft, the modern United Nations has become a carnival of scandal -- all the while unable...

June 27, 2006 | National Review Online |

The U.N.’s Day in Court

While United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has already dismissed the Oil-for-Food scandal as over and done, within the wood-paneled walls of a Manhattan courtroom it has just come to life....

June 20, 2006 |

UN Headquarters Renovation: No Accountability Without Transparency

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January 9, 2006 | |

Strong Implications

What the Park arrest portends.

September 25, 2005 | Claudia Rosett Weekly Standard |

The Buck Still Hasn’t Stopped

From the October 3, 2005 issue: The Volcker report on Oil-for-Food is sadly incomplete.

August 14, 2005 | New York Sun |

U.N. Secretary-General’s Brother Kobina Annan May Have Played a Role in Oil-for-Food Scandal

To the cast of characters caught up in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal, investigators have reportedly added another name, that of the secretary-general's brother, Kobina Annan. That m...

August 10, 2005 | Wall Street Journal (Opinion Journal) |

Scratching the Surface

"A single dollar lost to corruption is a dollar too much if you're handling international public monies": With this pious utterance did United Nations chief of staff, Mark Malloch Brown, gre...

July 20, 2005 | New York Sun |

All the Secretary-General’s Men: the Tangled Web of U.N. Cronyism

Reforming the United Nations is a tall order at the best of times. Today it stands no chance at all unless it starts by removing the network that during Kofi Annan's more than seven years as...

July 10, 2005 | New York Sun |

D.A. Pursuing Criminal Probe of Aide at U.N.

The Manhattan District Attorney's office has opened a criminal investigation into the former head of the U.N. oil-for-food program, Benon Sevan, the DA's office has just confirmed for t...

April 26, 2005 | New York Sun |

Rohrabacher To Probe Role Of French Bank

Rohrabacher To Probe Role Of French Bank Next up in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal is a trip down the money trail, by way of the French bank tapped by the United Nations - in cahoots with Saddam H...

October 14, 2004 | |

“Conflicts-of-Interest-R-Us”

Kofi Annan Uses the Iraqi People's Money to Investigate the Oil-for-Food

April 15, 2004 | Commentary Magazine |

The Oil-for-Food Scam: What Did Kofi Annan Know, and When Did He Know It?

For years, the United Nations Oil-for-Food program was just one more blip on the multilateral landscape: a relief program for Iraq, a way to feed hungry children in a far-off land until the world...