Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Marian Houk
This is an ugly and traumatic story.
Alec Collett, a former colleague accredited as a journalist at UNHQ/NY in the early to mid-1980s, was one of those internationals kidnapped during the long Lebanese civil war. Alec was taken from a car near Beirut airport in March 1985, while on a temporary assignment for UNRWA in [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Lebanon, Libya, United Nations
Posted on January 3rd, 2009 by Marian Houk
Relying on the Associated Press’ indefatigueable Edith Lederer at UNHQ/NY, we learn that “French U.N. Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert, the council president, said the 15 council members could not agree on a statement in closed discussions held after Israel launched a ground invasion into the Gaza Strip on Saturday. But he said there were ’strong convergences’ [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Libya, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet, UN Security Council
Posted on December 21st, 2006 by Marian Houk
In a bold step with a weakly-argued point, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has called on Libyan courts to review the death sentences imposed on five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor for the alleged intentional transmission of HIV to hundreds of children — in light of evidence showing that [...]
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Filed under: Libya, Torture, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
