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UN investigators said to take nude photo, ask about prostitution in under-age rape case
This undated filed photo shows MINUSCA, the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (CAR), on patrol in the capital Bangui. (UN photo)
Please see the bottom of story for update
EXCLUSIVE: United Nations peacekeeping investigators looking…
UN benefit boost to outgoing ethics watchdog questioned in light of sex abuse scandal
On April 14, 2015, Joan Dubinsky, the top ethics officer of the United Nations, got a small but important extension of her final two-year employment contract with the world organization. It could be worth about $1,000 a month for the…
Perry points way forward for GOP on race
What is Rick Perry up to?
The former Texas governor looks to be cutting himself out of the conservative herd. He recently blasted his fellow Republicans for losing “our moral legitimacy as the party of Lincoln, as the party of…
Taxpayers funding portion of Smithsonian’s Bill Cosby art exhibit?
LOS ANGELES – Despite the dozens of accusations of drugging, rape and sexual assault against Bill Cosby, the federally-funded Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art is continuing with its current exhibition “Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue,” which…
Two more Cosby accusers speak out, demand courts unseal 2006 depositions
Nov. 6, 2014:Bill Cosby gestures during an interview about the upcoming exhibit, “Conversations: African and African-American Artworks in Dialogue, ” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
The Cosby saga is deepening by…
‘We are all sick’: FBI boss says gun check breakdown allowed Dylann Roof to buy weapon
Charleston gunman Dylann Roof should never have been been able to buy the gun he used to kill nine worshippers at a church Bible study last month, the FBI director said Friday, citing a breakdown in the national background check…
Ban names U.N. sex abuse scandal panel
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrives on the eve of the Geneva Consultations on Yemen at the European headquarters of the United Nations, UN, in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, June 14, 2015. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)
A former Canadian Supreme Court…
Gun-free zones an easy target for killers
The horrible tragedy last night that left nine people dead at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., probably could have been avoided. Like so many other attacks, the massacre took place in a gun-free zone, a place…
Hillary Clinton’s Speech On Voting Rights Is All Upside
Slowly but surely, Hillary Clinton is making her positions known.
And earlier this week, she came out strong on voting rights.
To my mind, Clinton’s speech on voting rights was designed to accomplish two things:
First, her speech clearly associates…
Judge slaps down U.N. on sex crimes reporting
The United Nations’ suspension of a top human rights official who passed evidence to French authorities of rape and sexual abuse of starving children in the Central African Republic by French and African troops last year was unlawful, a U.N.…
