News: The UN’s “Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action” released a draft report on February 6. This
In our last issue, we commented on the impropriety of the nomination of Libya to chair the UN Commission on Human Rights (CHR). In this
News: On January 20, there will be a one-day meeting of the UN Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to select a new chairman. By UN
On Monday, the UN’s World Food Program launched its “Africa Hunger Alert” campaign to draw attention to and raise funds for 38 million people facing
“Poverty breeds terror.” At the United Nations, this claim is regularly expressed in discussions on terrorism. But does the evidence bear this out? Analysis: In a
UN Special Rapporteurs are mandated to conduct fact-finding missions and bring to the United Nations informed and independent judgments. On November 5, Mr. John Dugard,
In his September 12 speech to the United Nations General Assembly, President Bush challenged the United Nations to enforce its Security Council resolutions on Iraq.
After the September 11 attacks, the UN Security Council passed resolution 1373, which obliged all states to report their counter-terrorism measures to the Security Council’s
The General Assembly met on Monday in a resumed “Emergency Special Session” on the Middle East. Confronted with the Secretary-General’s report that confirmed Israeli allegations
News: On 23 July, the UN General Assembly approved UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s nomination of Sergio Vieira de Mello for the post of High
On 2 July, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) released the Arab Human Development Report 2002. Written “by Arabs, for Arabs,” the report has received
Following President Bush’s Middle East policy speech, Secretary-General Kofi Annan commented: “[W]e had hoped that the reforms would not be a condition of the peace-process