Last night the SG issued a statement expressing his deep concern at recent statements and events related to the work of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
The first children who trick-or-treated for UNICEF are likely drawing Social Security by now. And the woman who started it all, Mary Emma Allison, passed away yesterday at the age of 93. Yet the tradition lives on.
Two weeks from today, NATO is gathering for a major summit of its 28 member states, plus Russia. This morning, the U.S. Ambassador to NATO met with a few journalists in Washington, D.C. to preview the gathering.
Between 2003 and 2009, more than 4.5 million Iraqis were expelled and displaced amid Iraq’s sectarian civil war — new, grim details of which are contained in the WikiLeaks trove. It's time to revive the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission.
In regards to the cholera outbreak and whether it stemmed from the Nepalese peacekeeping camp, the Spokesperson stated that the UN is taking the issue very seriously and is currently conducting tests.
Last week, a UN compound in Afghanistan was attacked by suicide bombers. This marks about the seventh time since 2003 that the United Nations has been the target of suicide terrorism. I speak to Robert Pape, a leading authority on suicide terrorism about why the UN is emerging as a target.