Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Marian Houk
From Haaretz today, this headline and sub-head: “UNICEF severs ties with Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev: UN children’s fund says company owned by mogul has been involved in building settlements in W. Bank“.
And from the text of the story: “UNICEF decided to review its relationship with Leviev after a campaign by Adalah-NY and found ‘at [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Millennium Goals, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall, Sanctions, UN Administration
Posted on November 8th, 2007 by Marian Houk
It appears that the UN’s highly-flawed system of internal justice will not be revamped until 2009. at the earliest. Here is an exchange from the UN’s daily Noon Briefing on Monday 5 November:
“Question: What reasons were given, with respect to not readying the new justice system until 2009?
“Spokesperson: What was the reason [...]
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Filed under: UN Administration, United Nations
Posted on October 31st, 2007 by Marian Houk
About ten days ago, it emerged that the SG’s son-in-law is being moved to Iraq. Journalists at the UN probed the move. Here are some excerpts from an exchange between Inner City Press’ Matthew Lee and UN Spokesperson Michele Montas at the UNHQ daily Noon Briefing for journalists on 19 October:
“Question: And there’s [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Iraq, Journalism and Journalists, UN Administration
Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by Marian Houk
The Associated Press reported over the weekend that “The United Nations said an interpreter responsible for an erroneous report that Syria has a nuclear facility has been reprimanded and the organization has apologized to Syria’s UN Mission. Earlier this week, Syria denied that one of its representatives told the UN General Assembly’s committee that [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Syria, UN Administration, United Nations
Posted on October 19th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The UN, predictably, is moving to punish one of its staff members who is accused of making a mistake in interpretation from Arabic to English — which, as a result, caused apparent misinformation when picked up and published in a UN Press Release.
The UN spokesperson told journalists yesterday that “Action will be taken against the [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Syria, UN Administration, 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
Despite the fervent U.S. wish to have a larger UN staff presence ensconced in the Green Zone in Iraq — and UNSG BAN Ki-Moon’s wish to accomodate the U.S., irregardless of continued opposition from the UN Staff, the decision has not yet been made, as revealed by this exchange between the UN Spokesperson and a [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Iraq, UN Administration, US in UN
Posted on September 11th, 2007 by Marian Houk
On Friday, the UN spokesperson announced the composition of “the fact-finding panel that will be tasked with investigating the circumstances surrounding the discovery of a substance [emphasis added - latest reports suggest it was not a dangeous substance, but can we really believe this?] at UNMOVIC premises two weeks ago. The panel will have [...]
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Filed under: UN Administration
Posted on September 9th, 2007 by Marian Houk
A headline from the UN News Centre: “UN TO LOOK INTO WHETHER MATERIALS AT WEAPONS INSPECTORS’ OFFICES WERE MISLABELED”
Mislabled?
Here is what the UN News report said: “Asked whether the United Nations would look into whether materials at the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) offices were mis-labeled, the Spokeswoman said that a [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, UN Administration
Posted on September 9th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The UN reported last week that “Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has proposed, in an exchange of letters with the Security Council, that Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, who currently heads the UN Office in West Africa, be appointed as his Special Representative for Somalia. Mr. Ban also suggested upgrading the position to that of Under-Secretary-General. Meanwhile, [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, UN Administration
