Twenty years ago this month, a colleague saved me from a likely gruesome death. He insisted I stay in his Baghdad office of the World Food Programme (WFP) for a hot drink. “You can't leave us withou
When 150+ world leaders, including Presidents and Prime Ministers, arrive in New York to address the high-level segment of the General Assembly beginning September 19, the UN neighborhood will be turn
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 05 (IPS) - When 150+ world leaders, including Presidents and Prime Ministers, arrive in New York to address the high-level segment of the General Assembly beginning September 19, the UN neighborhood will be turned into a veritable war zone.The streets will be littered with scores of police officers, US secret service personnel, UN security officers, bomb-sniffing dogs, road closures and a stand-by ambulance in the UN campus ready to cope with any medical emergencies.
In August 2003, a terrorist attack at our Iraqi headquarters killed many of my
UN colleagues and forced the organisation to examine its own role in
politicising aid
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