Secretary General Faces a Backlash
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UNITED NATIONS -- When U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon paid his first official visit to Washington last month, he received the White House version of a seal of approval: a presidential pat on the back and an invitation to phone President Bush whenever he needs help in responding to an international crisis....
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UNITED NATIONS: The UN staff union was meeting late last night to discuss a no-confidence measure against senior management of the United Nations, which has been hit by a series of scandals involving top UN officials.
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KOFI ANNAN and his senior staff at the United Nations are facing an internal revolt that has gathered pace since the bombing of the UN office in Baghdad.
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The beating of a leader of a budding movement to uphold motoristsâ rights in the face of police corruption has prompted an outcry.
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SINGAPORE, Sept. 15 -- The leaders of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, meeting here for a gathering of financial leaders, sharply rebuked the host government on Friday for barring the entry of 27 accredited members of anti-poverty and environmental organizations. They accused...
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The former United Nations secretary general has spent the past week trying to nudge Kenyaâs government and opposition leaders toward a compromise.
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United Nations: More than 2,700 staff members of the UN Secretariat have signed a letter expressing their support for Secretary-General Kofi Annan at a time when the organization has faced allegations about its integrity.
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The vision of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is under strain, the UN's human rights chief warns.
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A plan by Indonesia's president to extend a ban on polygamy by civil servants sparks an angry response.
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This is sad. Kofi Annan convenes a grand council of the great and the good of international diplomacy and asks them to come up with a new charter that re-invents the United Nations.
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An irate Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday fired back at a UN official who called the United States &quot;stingy&quot; when it comes to providing humanitarian aid to countries in need.
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The government's GP leader is to go on a charm offensive after weeks of damaging stories about the profession.
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UNITED NATIONS: UN diplomats say they are concerned that calls for Secretary-General Kofi Annan&#39;s resignation and allegations of massive corruption in the UN oil-for-food program in Iraq could derail plans for a sweeping reform of the United Nations.
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Â· Conservative leader keen to avoid reigniting furore Â· Spokesman on Europe gets severe reprimand
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Should an ambassador speak out over human rights even if this upsets his or her own government? The question has been posed by the dismissal from his post as British ambassador to Uzbekistan
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Angered at Secretary-General Kofi Annan&#39;s dismissal of allegations against the UN&#39;s top investigator, union leaders representating over 5,000 UN employees met for a second day on Friday to decide what action to take.
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ELEANOR HALL: The United Nations Refugee agency has criticised the Italian government for the change in its treatment of asylum seekers.