Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Marian Houk
“The human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory remains grave”, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour informed the members of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week.
Three new reports on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory were discussed at the Human Rights Council in [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Kofi Annan, Middle East Peace Process, NGOs, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on October 28th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The Israeli Government Press Office has just sent out an UPDATE to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s schedule today — announcing a meeting early this evening with former UN SG Kofi Annan as head of a delegation of the “UN Foundation” [I think they mean "Annan's" Global Humanitarian Forum, which was just officially launched on [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Kofi Annan, Kofi Annan Watch, Quartet, United Nations
Posted on October 11th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The first I heard of the Israeli push for its “fair share” of UN posts was in September 2000, just after the failed Camp David peace talks hosted by U.S. President Bill Clinton, and just before violent repression of demonstrations against Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount/Al-Aqsa Mosque complex ignited the Second Intifiada.
The [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Israel, Kofi Annan, UN Administration
Posted on September 16th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The UN Spokesperson told journalists at UNHQ/NY on Friday that “The Security Council extended the terms of the current prosecutors for the two international tribunals in back-to-back formal meetings today. By a unanimous vote, the Council extended Hassan Jallow’s term as Prosecutor for the Rwanda Tribunal by four years. Carla Del Ponte, the [...]
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Filed under: Former Yugoslavia, International Tribunals, Kofi Annan, Rwanda, UN Security Council
Posted on March 19th, 2007 by Marian Houk
An interesting read can be found at the Nation magazine’s 2 April 2007 issue, in an article entitled “Made in USA“, which at least starts off as a rather scathing review of two of what the author, Perry Anderson, calls “fawning” biographies of Kofi Annan:
“The facts of Annan’s career are clear enough, and in [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, Kofi Annan, UN History, UN Peacekeeping, UN Secretary-General
Posted on January 20th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The Juba Post, a Sudanese newspaper, reports that former UN Envoy Jan Pronk, a liberal Dutch politician who was declared persona non grata by Sudan due to his blogging comments, has hit back at the UN for its inaction:
“Jan Pronk, former Special representative of the Secretary General of the UN, has condemned the Sudan harassment [...]
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Filed under: Kofi Annan, Sudan - Darfur, UN Peacekeeping, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council
Posted on January 17th, 2007 by Marian Houk
…or at least, words written for him, and signed in his name [was former UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric responsible, when he worked for the Oil-For-Food programme?]. Here are excerpts from an op-ed piece that was published in the International Herald Tribune in September 2005: “Oil-for-food: Far from a failure” –“After nearly a year and a half [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council
Posted on January 16th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Fox news and the BBC World Service are both reporting that Benon Sevan has been indicted in connection with some kind of financial irregularities in the UN’s Oil-For-Food programme, which Benon Sevan directed — but why is there nothing yet on the websites of the FBI, or the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, or INTERPOL?
The Fox News story [...]
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Filed under: Kofi Annan, Kofi Annan Watch, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council
Posted on January 14th, 2007 by Marian Houk
As a result of a question from an informed journalist in the regular UN Noon Briefing in NY last Froday, we now know that on 21 December 2006, in one of his last acts in office, former UN SG Kofi Annan told the UN General Assembly that he would not be sending a team to [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Kofi Annan, UN General Assembly, UN Secretary-General
Posted on January 4th, 2007 by Marian Houk
…whether or not new SG BAN KI-MOON is unable to break away from old traditions, as the NY Sun suggests in an article today. In the first place, it would be almost impossible for even the canny BAN, and even with his sharp South Korean-led transition team, to be well-versed, yet, in the UN’s “old traditions”. BAN’s [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Kofi Annan, Kofi Annan Watch, Transition, UN Administration, UN Peacekeeping, UN Secretary-General, US in UN
