World Intellectual Property Organization

September 28, 2022 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Ivana Stradner

A Different Kind of Russian Threat – Seeking to Install Its Candidate Atop Telecommunications Standards Body

For the billions of digital devices that people the world over use each day, technical standards provide rules that ensure a device produced in one country can run software developed in a second country,...

June 17, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Defending America’s defenders

Beginning to stand up to a hostile international 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

December 20, 2013 | |

Technology for Tyrants

It's well over a year since the United Nations intellectual property agency got caught undermining the U.N.’s own sanctions—shipping U.S.-origin computers and related high-tech e...

October 12, 2012 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report |

Digging Deeper Into the UN’s WIPO Tech for Tyrants Scandal

Congressional investigators of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs are pressing ahead with their inquiry into one of the flashier United Nations scandals of recent times — call it Tech f...

August 29, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

Ban Ki-moon Over Tehran

Proof – as if more were needed – that the UN is broken beyond repair.

August 13, 2012 | Mark Dubowitz |

So You Want to Be a Sanctions-Buster

It’s easy -- if you try hard enough and have the right friends! Here’s a handy how-to guide to making moolah from the mullahs.

November 1, 2011 | Claudia Rosett Forbes |

UNESCO Fiasco

If the U.S. has one big lever right now within the many organizations of the United Nations system, it is the threat to cut the money with which U.S. taxpayers pay the biggest share of the U.N.&r...

June 13, 2011 | |

Dating Yourself

Fear and frustration in Geneva

February 27, 2007 |

One for the Ages: U.N. Official Uses Two Birthdates

The phrase “born again” is taking on a whole new meaning in a scandal now brewing at a little-known but important United Nations agency based in Switzerland, where an auditor has disc...

April 19, 2005 | Wall Street Journal (Opinion Journal and European Edition) |

Stale Kofi

Yet more scandal at the United Nations? Secret deals, millions in bribes, leading to billions in global kickbacks? What to do? Have no fear, reform is here. The United Nations has alread...

April 17, 2005 | New York Sun |

Canadian Tycoon Could Assist In U.N. Probe

Who are the two mysterious high-ranking U.N. officials fingered in one of the latest indictments of the oil-for-food scandal? The indictment, issued last Thursday, doesn't give the...