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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...
A 27-nation coalition led by the United States today rightly condemned the United Nations commission of inquiry (COI) investigating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The UN does it incompetently, corruptly, and criminally
Washington and its allies have several levers for reforms.
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.
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...
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...
Co-Authored with George. Russell “Justice has been done.” That’s how United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hailed the conviction for f...
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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,...
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...
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...
Co-authored by: George Russell UNITED NATIONS — Trouble in the United Nations Procurement Division is now well established as the world organization’s successo...
United Nations talking points avoid taking responsibility.
Co-authored by: George Russell. With U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (search) next up for review by Paul Volcker’s inquiry into the Oil-for-Food scandal, a crucial quest...
Let's be honest. Along with United Nations secrecy, Saddam Hussein's perfidy, and the general coyness of the bribed, one of the big obstacles to getting to the bottom of the Oil for Foo...
NEWS FLASH -- In a stunning development that even the United Nations' fiercest critics will surely hail as a turn for the better, Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced yesterday that he is...
In the scandal over the U.N. Oil-for-Food program in Iraq, Kofi Annan's main line of defense has been that he didn't know. Perhaps he should take a closer look at internal U.N. Oil-for-...
FDD senior fellow Claudia Rosett testified before the House Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations in regards to the scandal surrounding the U.N. Oil-for...