UN-Truth

UN-Truth is a news /analysis-with-attitude site.

Marian Houk is a veteran freelance journalist, presently based in Jerusalem, a past President (1986) of the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) at UNHQ/NY, and a Member of the Online News Association.
A writer, reporter, journalist and analyst with long experience at the United Nations [in New York and in Geneva and more], as well as in, and with, the Middle East, Marian Houk is the editor, and an author, of UN-Truth.

For scale, Marian (find her — in the exact center of the photo) visiting Israeli excavations just outside the wall of the Old City of Jerusalem on 22 February 2010):

Other authors:

Said Ghazali is a veteran journalist from East Jerusalem who has worked on staff for the now-defunct Al-Fajr Arabic-language dailynewspaper in Jerusalem, and for the Associated Press [AP], and on a freelance basis for local, Arab, and international media.

Ben Lynfield is a veteran freelance journalist, based in Jerusalem, and Member of the Foreign Press Association (FPA) in Israel.

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Since May 2007, this blog has become more focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — which has been one of the main issues on the UN’s agenda since its founding, and which was also one of the main issues on the agenda of the UN’s predecessor, the Geneva-based League of Nations.

This blog started out hoping to shed some light on the workings of the United Nations and of issues that are discussed at the United Nations — starting with issues that are of particular concern to us. Human rights is one of those issues. Journalism – and freedom of expression, opinion, and movement – is another. The Israeli

This is of course certainly not an official UN website, and all opinions are purely personal.

However, the blog opened, and the first items were posted on UN Truth, on 24 October, UN Day, in 2006. UN Day commemorates the UN Charter’s entry into force on 24 October 1945. The UN Charter was signed a few months earlier, on 26 June 1945, in San Francisco, in the wake of the Second World War.

UN-Truth is hosted on servers that are set up and maintained by Zero-Analog in San Francisco.

In the photo below, taken at a roundtable discussion in Jerusalem in July 2004, Marian Houk is the woman wearing the sort-of-orange-colored eyeglasses. Photo courtesy of PASSIA:

In the United Nations photo below, Maurice Strong, Executive Coordinator, United Nations Office for Emergency Operations in Africa, was interviewed on 5 March 1985 for the World Chronicle [a UN Television program] by a panel of journalists: (counter clockwise) Michael Littlejohns (Reuters), moderator; Marian Houk (Al-Bayan, Dubai); David Newell (New York Times); and Robin Dilks (British Broadcasting Corporation.

UN Photo number 186279 – by Miguel Jiminez

And, click on the following link for a picture included in Liberian journalist Gabriel William’s book, Liberia: the heart of darkness: on this page.