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If UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon were a puppet of the West, particularly of the US, as he is often criticized to be, he would ‘have supported the International Criminal Court and the Responsibility to Protect while on the hustings for the UN’s top job, nor would he have pushed so hard on climate change issues for two years of the Bush/Cheney [...]

He is actually ‘tougher than his mild diplomatic manner may suggest.’ He ‘can do a great deal to foment that global opinion’ and does not hesitate doing so. According to a poll conducted by the WorldPublicOpinion.org, he is ‘the second most trusted global figure after Obama.’ He heads the United Nations, the international membership club [...]

Based on the proceedings of September 22 ‘disappointing climate change summit’ at the UN headquarters in New York, there is now a nagging doubt that not much can be achieved in the huge climate change summit to be held in Copenhagen this December. So far, the said pre-Copenhagen UN summit has been ‘the highest-level summit on climate ever convened,’ [...]

In the countdown to the much-awaited and carefully-prepared for climate summit to be held in Copenhagen towards the end of 2009, ‘the United Nations is planning a form of diplomatic shock therapy for world leaders this week in the hope of injecting badly needed urgency into negotiations for a climate change treaty that, it is now widely acknowledged, [...]

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned that ‘the Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth’ and ‘could be ice-free by 2030.’ Ban recently visited the Polar Ice Rim in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard where he observed firsthand the impact of climate change on the Arctic. Ban promptly called on governments to achieve in the international [...]

If there is one bastion of bureaucracy, it is the United Nations. Embarrassing as it is that the organization is deluged with sexual harassment complaints within its own ranks, this agency that is mandated to protect human rights across the globe, has an arbitrary and unfair system of handling its internal sexual harassment cases. The processing of [...]

The vaccine specific to Influenza A (H1N1) virus, formerly known as swine flu, will be available by November at the earliest. The predicted production timeline has been set back by two months from the earlier September schedule. The World Health Organization (WHO) has requested the vaccine makers to reserve a portion of the production for poor countries. The [...]

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met this Saturday with Sri Lanka government leaders on the situation of the 280,000 people displaced by war. Ban was also scheduled to visit several camps for the displaced refugees in the north. “After winning the war of 26 years this week, the government of Sri Lanka needs to win the peace solution to the conflict,” [...]

The United States will not participate in the UN conference against racism which begins Monday in Geneva, as reported by the US State Department in Washington. Preparations for the conference were made unilaterally on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Washington believes that there are ‘key assumptions’ that can only be resolved in negotiations [...]

The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, urged the citizens of the world to honor the victims of the Holocaust that was perpetrated by the Nazi regime during World War II, through the reaffirmation of the belief in the values and standards promoted by the UN. In a corporate message on International Day in Memory of Victims of the Holocaust, [...]