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World Food Program badly mismanaged special donor trust funds, auditors say

June 27: An Afghan man carries a sack of wheat from a UN World Food Programme warehouse. Due to budget constraints, on June 27th the UN announced that it would be force to cut food assistance to more than 3…

Children of war: Iran-backed Houthis recruit kids as young as 6 in battle for Yemen

Iranian-backed Houthis fighting for control of Yemen are swelling their rebel army with children as young as 6, giving them food, a few dollars a day and the grim warning that “there is no going home to Mommy and Daddy,”…

Top violator of women’s rights around the world? It’s Israel says UN

Guess who is the number one violator of women’s rights in the world today? Israel. Violating the rights of Palestinian women. At least that is the view of the UN’s top women’s rights body, the Commission on the Status of…

Why I walked into the Sultan of Brunei’s Beverly Hills Hotel

Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah attends the formal session of the ASEAN-Republic of Korea Commemorative Summit in Busan, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, Pool) Last week I faced a tough decision. I was chosen to receive an…

UN marks Human Rights Day by promoting violation of human rights

Sixty-six years ago was the high water mark of global disapproval of xenophobia, and racial and religious discrimination. On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and then gave Eleanor Roosevelt a…