Food and Agriculture Organization

August 2, 2023 | John Hardie |

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: August

By John Hardie  Welcome back to the Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker. Once a month, we ask FDD’s experts and scholars to assess the administration’s foreign policy. They provide...

June 16, 2023 | Anthony Ruggiero |

Hold the WHO accountable for embracing North Korea

Former President Donald Trump congratulated Kim Jong Un earlier this month after North Korea joined the Executive Board of the World Health Organization.  Nikki Haley, Trump’s...

May 31, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

How Congress Can Fix Biden’s Failed U.N. Strategy

Countries from around the world gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, over the past week for the World Health Organization’s annual assembly, but Taiwan was not among them. Pressure from Beijing thwarted requests...

July 28, 2022 | Ivana Stradner, Iulia Sabina-Joja

Russia Created a Refugee Crisis, and Now Putin Is Weaponizing It

With Russia causing two migration crises—one by bloodshed in the east and the other by famine in the south—the United States must act now.

February 24, 2021 | Richard Goldberg |

Can Biden Fix the U.N. Human Rights Council?

The administration insists it can succeed where two U.S. presidents already tried and failed.

July 8, 2020 | Craig Singleton |

Post-COVID, Let’s Leverage International Organizations to Slow Down China

In a sign that not all hope has been lost in combating China’s efforts to co-opt international organizations (IO), Beijing recently suffered a bruising defeat at the hands of the World Trade Organization...

June 2, 2020 | Richard Goldberg |

Trump’s New China Strategy Must Focus on International Organizations

The White House released the “United States Strategic Approach to the People’s Republic of China” last month, outlining the Trump administration’s “National Security Strategy as it applies most...

April 15, 2020 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Countering a Corrupt China

How Covid-19 Has Exposed the Regime’s Power Plays

April 1, 2020 | Mathew Ha |

North Korea Turns to Cyber Disinformation Attacks Amid Global Coronavirus Outbreak

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) released a new report on March 26 revealing North Korean hackers’ persistent cyberattacks on news outlets to spread disinformation. This new development in North...

June 24, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Admitting Syrian Refugees: The Intelligence Void and the Escalating Homeland Security Threat

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April 1, 2013 | Claudia Rosett The Wall Street Journal |

At the U.N., Iran Is a Powerhouse, Not a Pariah

The world's leading state sponsor of terrorism heads the General Assembly's second-largest voting bloc.

June 25, 2012 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report |

Ahmadinejad in Rio

It is by now a scene so familiar it’s become routine. At your expense, dear taxpayers of the planet — and especially at the expense of all you colonialist, imperialist, capitalist tax...

July 15, 2011 |

Somalia’s Drought, America’s Dilemma

How can the U.S. provide much-needed aid to a part of the world that is controlled by a terrorist group allied with al Qaeda?

July 23, 2010 | |

Iran’s Mini-Empire At The U.N.

The United Nations has just created a new "entity" on women's rights, called U.N. Women. Elections to its governing board are now being organized. How long before Iran wins a seat?...

February 24, 2010 |

Iran’s Global Bedfellows

If you listen to U.S. officialdom, Iran is a pariah, cast out by the world community for its sanctions-violating, nuclear-wannabe ways. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has just warned Latin Amer...

December 17, 2009 | |

Iran’s Global Bedfellows

If you listen to U.S. officialdom, Iran is a pariah, cast out by the world community for its sanctions-violating, nuclear-wannabe ways. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has just warned Latin Am...

December 11, 2008 | |

Iran’s Power At The United Nations

With Iran racing down the homestretch toward a nuclear bomb, the United Nations Security Council has spent more than two years expressing "serious concern." By now, Iran is under U.N. sanctions,...

June 12, 2007 |

Will Fraud Conviction Help U.N. Reform Its Secretive ‘Culture of Impunity’?

Co-Authored with George. Russell “Justice has been done.” That’s how United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hailed the conviction for f...