Posted on February 18th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Was John Holmes pointing the finger?
Would a UN official ever do that?
Well, today, the Israeli Foreign Ministry made a highly-publicized complaint directly to Holmes, in a meeting in Jerusalem.
In a statement on the MFA website — which was also sent around to journalist by email, and reported in the various languages of Kol Israel this [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Humanitarian Efforts
Posted on February 17th, 2008 by Marian Houk
On Friday, UN’s Undersecretary for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes, visited Gaza and expressed shock about the ‘grim and miserable’ situation there, and he said the Gaza Strip’s borders should be open.
On Sunday, Holmes visited the Israeli city that has been the target of many Qassam rockets fired by Palestinians from Gaza, and said, according to [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Humanitarian Efforts, United Nations
Posted on July 10th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Haaretz’s Akiva Eldar has written this week about two new UN reports on the Palestinian situation:
1. OCHA - The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
To fully appreciate this item, a little background — Kevin Kennedy is a former U.S. Marine, who became a “star” in Kofi Annan’s UN, and whose rise continues…]
“If it [...]
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Filed under: International Court of Justice - ICJ, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall, UN Humanitarian Efforts, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
Posted on April 19th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Here are excerpts from remarks made by UN SG BAN Ki-Moon at a press conference with Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey in Bern, Switzerland, this evening: “I think everybody, including myself, in the world should be very much concerned and troubled by this ongoing violence and instability in Iraq. The international community has been trying to [...]
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Posted on April 18th, 2007 by Marian Houk
At the conclusion of the Conference on Tuesday afternoon, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres ,announced that he had succeeded in negotiating with the UN to have one high-level liaison officer with international status who will be based inside Iraq, to make sure that coordination with the Iraqi Government “works properlyâ€.
There is a [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, UN Humanitarian Efforts
Posted on April 17th, 2007 by Marian Houk
One of the main aims of the International Conference on Iraq, convened in Geneva today, was to mobilize help for countries neighboring Iraq who are being flooded with refugees fleeing relentless violence inside Iraq.. Syria — a country whose rival Baathist government was profoundly distrusted for decades by Iraq’s own Baathist leadership — [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, UN Humanitarian Efforts
Posted on April 16th, 2007 by Marian Houk
A two-day ministerial-level humanitarian meeting will convene in Geneva on Tuesday and Wednesday to seek help for countries neighboring Iraq who are being flooded with refugees seeking shelter from the relentless violence in the country.
Much of the meeting will be closed, presumably to allow government delegations to speak freely.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, who [...]
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Filed under: Donors, Iraq, UN Humanitarian Efforts
Posted on March 3rd, 2007 by Marian Houk
This was posted recently on Jan Pronk’s blog:
“Weblog nr 41
February 25, 2007
Before my final departure from Sudan in December last year I addressed the UN staff in Khartoum and Juba. In my address I presented fifteen guidelines for peacekeepers. Several colleagues asked me to put these on paper. Here they are:
First: United Nations peacekeepers in [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Sudan - Darfur, Sudan - Southern Sudan, UN Humanitarian Efforts, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council
Posted on February 15th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The BBC World Service is reporing today that : “Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova has been named as a goodwill ambassador for the UN development agency, UNDP. The 19-year-old will focus on projects dealing with the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Signed on for a symbolic $1 the world’s top-ranked female [...]
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Filed under: Donors, Journalism and Journalists, UN Humanitarian Efforts, UN Peacekeeping, UN Security Council
Posted on January 29th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The continuing conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region is what the new UN Secretary-General BAN KI-MOON has said is his top priority at the moment, and he is in Addis Ababa to discuss this and other matters with African leaders meeting at the African Union Summit.
In a keynote address at the Summit meeting on Monday, BAN [...]
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Filed under: Sudan - Darfur, Sudan - Southern Sudan, UN Humanitarian Efforts, UN Peacekeeping, UN Secretary-General
