United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services
Nine UNRWA Staff Dismissed for Possible Ties to October 7 Atrocities
Latest Developments United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini announced the dismissal of nine of the agency’s employees for their potential involvement...
Flash Briefs
The Netherlands Considers Restoring UNRWA Funding, Pending Reform
The Netherlands is the latest country to consider reinstating funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) after the release of a report on April 22 into the agency’s...
Flash Briefs
The Urgent Need for UN Reform
The UN’s response to October 7 makes reform more urgent than ever. UN reform used to be a bipartisan priority — it must now be again.
Memos
UN Report Ignores Palestinian Terrorism, Blasts U.S. Supporters Of Israel
A 27-nation coalition led by the United States today rightly condemned the United Nations commission of inquiry (COI) investigating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Op-eds
The Time Is Now to Reform the UN Human Rights Apparatus
Memos
The problem with peacekeeping
The UN does it incompetently, corruptly, and criminally
Op-eds
Palestinian Organizations at the United Nations
It’s Time for Biden to Ratchet Up the Pressure on the WHO
Washington and its allies have several levers for reforms.
Op-eds
Covid-19’s origins remain unknown. Holding China and the WHO accountable is necessary.
The U.S. should push the WHO to establish global health sanctions that could be levied to compel compliance from countries during during a health crisis.
Op-eds
Diplomatic Malpractice: Reforming the WHO After China’s COVID Cover-up
Memos
Fixing the United Nations
The United Nations was created in the wake of World War II by the major Allied nations that had prevailed – at an enormous cost in blood and treasure -- over the Axis powers. Its foun...
Op-eds
UN Oil-for-Food Program
Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of the Committtee, I thank you for the opportunity to testify here today. Speaking as a journalist, I would like to tell you that when I fir...
Congressional Testimonies
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...
Op-eds
UN Headquarters Renovation: No Accountability Without Transparency
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Congressional Testimonies
A Supreme Mess
Even the United Nations' own employees don't trust it to deliver justice. Just ask Cynthia Brzak, an American who has worked for the past 26 years at the U.N. refugee office in Geneva,...
Op-eds
United Nations Probes Sale of Irreplaceable Stamp Archive
Co-Authored with George Russell Amid the many scandals at the United Nations, a new mystery now looms. What happened to the world organization's unique and valuable postal...
Op-eds
U.N. Procurement Scandal: A ‘Culture of Impunity’
UNITED NATIONS — How bad is the still expanding scandal in the United Nations' multi-billion-dollar procurement division? Based on a still-secret internal investigation, the answ...
Op-eds
U.N. Procurement Scandal: The Case of the Official Who Never Was
Co-authored by: George Russell UNITED NATIONS — Trouble in the United Nations Procurement Division is now well established as the world organization’s successo...
Op-eds
Talking Their Way Out of the Scandal
United Nations talking points avoid taking responsibility.