United Nations Environment Programme

December 18, 2024 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer |

Science Belongs at Universities, National Laboratories – Not the UN

During a World Economic Forum session, Melissa Fleming, U.N. undersecretary-general for global

April 6, 2021 | Morgan Lorraine Viña, Simone Ledeen

Biden’s policy shift in Yemen courts environmental disaster

Excerpt A major disaster is unfolding in slow motion, with the international community seemingly incapable of taking any action other than public hand wringing. A crippled oil tanker, FSO Safer, has been...

September 24, 2010 | Claudia Rosett Pajamas Media

At the UN, America Pays, Ahmadinejad Plays

As long as America provides such toys as the United Nations, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might as well play with them - and this week, again, play he did. Ahmadinejad has just treate...

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?...

November 3, 2009 | World Defense review

Climate Change and Security in Africa

By Dr. J. Peter Pham For much of Africa's post-independence history, "African unity" was more an aspiration than a reality. Consequently, even when, as I...

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,...

October 11, 2008 | Claudia Rosett Wall Street Journal |

The U.N.’s Man of Mystery

Is the godfather of the Kyoto treaty a public servant or a profiteer?

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...

June 12, 2006 | National Review Online |

The Unreality of U.N. Reform

Not to be outdone by his own ruckus-raising deputy, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan himself is now instructing the U.S. on how to treat t...

May 2, 2006 | |

What a Bunch of Winners

Here's one for the new ethics office at the United Nations: Not only do we now know that Secretary-General Kofi Annan accepted a $500,000 prize from the ruler of Dubai, courtesy of a judges&...

April 3, 2006 | |

How Corrupt is the United Nations?

Recent years have brought a cascade of scandals at the United Nations, of which the wholesale corruption of the Oil-for-Food relief program in Iraq has been only the most visible. We still do not...

February 26, 2006 | |

Cash-for-Kofi

The U.N. secretary-general wins a half-million dollar prize in Dubai.