tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77017015237974156902024-03-21T07:05:29.420-07:00REFORM U.N. DESAUN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.comBlogger1073125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-68133220525597685292013-08-18T19:02:00.002-07:002013-08-18T19:02:27.431-07:00Here's how you get a job at the UN – video<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-57861806474866680912013-08-18T19:02:00.000-07:002013-08-18T19:02:02.633-07:00Top-heavy U.N.: Bureaucrats ’r us<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">When Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks of reform and better efficiencies at the United Nations, it's a tad difficult to take him seriously because he's increased the number of top Turtle Bay executives by 35 percent.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Between June 2006 — six months before Mr. Ban's start date — and March 2013, about 50 U.N. bureaucrats, with the rank of assistant secretary-general (ASG) and higher, have been added to the payroll, notes U.N. watchdog Brett D. Schaefer of The Heritage Foundation. At $172,301 per ASG and $189,599 per undersecretary-general (USG), the cost quickly adds up.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">By comparison, the U.S. government is downright frugal: “On average, the U.N. has one USG equivalent for every 759 employees while the U.S. executive branch on average has one cabinet official for every 91,391 employees,” writes Mr. Schaefer, based on data from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">This bloat suggests an unprecedented level of politicization and patronage. All of which explains why the excessively top-heavy U.N. is not known for its expediency in responding to world crises — or anything else.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Far more's the pity that the U.S. gets stuck paying the largest share of the U.N.'s tab among member nations.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The U.N.'s executive excess is outrageous. And contrary to the insistence of the Obama administration, the U.S. cannot realistically reform that which stubbornly resists change.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-48031007172569525802013-08-18T19:01:00.000-07:002013-08-18T19:01:03.729-07:00UN supresses report on MDG failuers but author releases it anyway<h1>
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UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-41057294681276572032013-08-18T18:59:00.001-07:002013-08-18T18:59:00.747-07:00New Report Holds U.N. Responsible for Haitian Cholera Epidemic<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-4038563968887522872013-08-18T18:58:00.003-07:002013-08-18T18:58:26.053-07:00The UN’s Millennium Development Flop<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-16865131023948510022013-08-18T18:58:00.001-07:002013-08-18T18:58:03.494-07:00UN director in Gaza quits for new post<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-41413517010603254742013-08-18T18:55:00.005-07:002013-08-18T18:55:44.484-07:00GA sets up new UN Sustainable Development Forum<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">On July 9, the United Nations General Assembly established a new High-level Forum to focus on sustainable development. The new body replaces the UN Commission on Sustainable Development in order to catalyze efforts on global development issues.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Thursday it has procured an unarmed surveillance drone from Italian defense electronics firm Selex ES, a unit of Finmeccanica, that will be deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the coming weeks.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-65813416815069235642013-08-18T18:53:00.002-07:002013-08-18T18:53:27.026-07:00IMO - Salaries at the world body are out of control, writes a former staffer<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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The United Nations greatly overpays its staffers, argues the authors.At the UN in New York, I once had a boss who, whenever she had to take a personal trip back to Africa, found a conference to attend. The UN then paid for her business class flights between New York and Dakar, for instance, and gave her a travel allowance. She kept the mileage.</div>
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UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-815637615244490192012-11-12T19:13:00.003-08:002012-11-12T19:13:48.450-08:00Sustainable Development: The Global Challenge of Resource-Efficient Growth<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;">... The 13th edition of
TERI’s annual Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) revolves around the
theme, The Global Challenge of Resource-Efficient Growth and Development,
arguably one of the most crucial issues facing world economies at present.<span> </span>The Summit—which will be held from January 31
to February 2, 2013 in Indian capital New Delhi--seeks to facilitate
discussions to strengthen and further the resolutions adopted in The Future We
Want...</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;">Pundits insisted the
presidential race was a toss-up, but "polling aggregators" - who
analyse polls to make predictions - were being criticised for favouring
President Obama. Not any more.</span></div>
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UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-58064515105431902122012-11-12T19:13:00.001-08:002012-11-12T19:13:10.307-08:00American Contributions to the UN: Small Outlay. Big Results<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;">The House Foreign Affairs
Committee are trying to cut American financial contributions to the United
Nations. Republicans who are championing this measure say it is a way to help
balance the books. In reality, American dues payments to the United Nations
amount to a tiny fraction of the overall budget. But even for that small
investment, the United States gets a lot back in return.</span></div>
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UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-40798466175300195142012-11-12T19:12:00.002-08:002012-11-12T19:12:39.986-08:00U.K.-Funded U.N. Document Supports Online Surveillance — Just Like the Brits Want<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;">
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officials don't generally need much encouragement to snoop on people, and
they're not especially shy about the practice, either — just look at the Obama
administration's continuing argument that legal challenges to domestic spying
shouldn't be permitted because they'd expose "state secrets." But a
little cover for preferred policies is always helpful, so that politicians can
point to "expert" recommendations to justify what they were going to
do anyway. That's where a recent report from the United Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime comes in, since it urges politicos hither and yon to impose closer
scrutiny and tighter regulations on the Internet.</span></div>
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UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-67001448653996677462012-11-12T19:11:00.002-08:002012-11-12T19:11:56.565-08:00Vienna meeting to launch implementation of UN Action Plan on the Safety of Journalists - 22 and 23 November, 2012<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;">
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of 2012 UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova condemned 95 killings of
journalists, media workers and bloggers, a dramatic increase compared to
previous years. The 2nd UN Inter-Agency Meeting on the Safety of Journalists
and the Issue of Impunity will be held in Vienna (Austria) on 22 and 23
November as part of international efforts to stem this violence, which
undermines the basic human right of freedom of expression in many parts of the
world and restricts citizens’ ability to get the full range of independent
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UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-65923476765030944272012-11-12T19:11:00.000-08:002012-11-12T19:11:03.068-08:00An open letter to Obama from the world's poorest countries - VIDEO<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;">As president you have
helped those who cause climate change more than those affected most by it.
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UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-2361560334305204832012-11-12T19:10:00.003-08:002012-11-12T19:10:35.430-08:00Appoint Bill Clinton Peace Envoy <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;">
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of Government at Dartmouth College.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;">President Obama's next
move in the Middle East is so obvious I almost hesitate to suggest it: before
the Israeli election season completely unfolds, ask, cajole, or beg Bill
Clinton to take on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;">Clinton understands the
details and the players. He naturally symbolizes the achievements of the
Abbas-Olmert negotiations, which picked up where the Clinton parameters left
off. He is extremely popular in Israel and (through Ehud Barak) very close to
the Israeli defense community. He is insanely popular among American Jews.</span></div>
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UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-29118076868712987152012-11-12T19:10:00.001-08:002012-11-12T19:10:04.609-08:00UN encourages staff to show solidarity with victims of Hurricane Sandy - AUDIO<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;">
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UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-36096201712781059242012-11-12T19:09:00.001-08:002012-11-12T19:09:39.591-08:00Mending Misperceptions about the United Nations<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;">
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represent the tip of the iceberg. Other UN detractors have suggested the
upcoming meeting of International Telecommunications Union members in December
represents an insidious attempt by the UN to control the Internet—a prospect
rendered impossible not only by the role and function of that institution, but
also by the fact that delegations attending the meeting have little taste for
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UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-65560586350843233802012-11-12T19:08:00.003-08:002012-11-12T19:08:36.556-08:00UN Envoy Susan Rice Is Top Candidate to Succeed Clinton<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;">Susan Rice, the U.S.
ambassador to the United Nations, is emerging as the favored candidate to
succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, even with the political
controversy over her remarks about the fatal Sept. 11 attack on the American
diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.</span></span></div>
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White House officials, who all spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss
internal deliberations, said Rice remains close to President Barack Obama and
shares many of his views on foreign policy. They emphasized that the president
hasn’t made a final decision, and Clinton may remain in her post for some
months into Obama’s second term.</span></span></div>
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UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-45307859932409474672012-11-12T19:08:00.001-08:002012-11-12T19:08:06.069-08:00United Nations Foundation President Timothy E. Wirth Congratulates President Obama<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;">Continued bipartisan
support for United States-United Nations relationship remains critical to U.S.
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President Timothy E. Wirth today issued the following statement on the results
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;">“Congratulations to
President Obama on his victory last night. The United Nations Foundation looks
forward to working with the Obama Administration to maintain strong U.S.
engagement and leadership at the United Nations — a policy priority favored by
the majority of Americans across the political spectrum.</span></span></div>
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UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-25051423969893697152012-11-12T19:07:00.001-08:002012-11-12T19:07:37.717-08:00Secretary-General Ban congratulates US President Barack Obama on re-election<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;">
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warmly congratulates President Barack Obama on
his re-election as President of the United States, a spokesperson for the world
body's head said overnight.</span></span></div>
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looks forward to continuing to work with President Obama and his administration
in the spirit of the enduring partnership between the United States and the
United Nations,” Mr. Ban's spokesperson added in a statement.</span></span></div>
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UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-19070535049259263952012-10-19T06:29:00.001-07:002012-10-19T06:29:23.491-07:00UN announces Jeffrey Sachs' leadership of new Sustainability Initiative (PDF)<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;">"Government,
Geography, and Growth: The True Drivers of Economic Development," Foreign
Affairs, September/October 2012.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/1804" target="_blank">www.earth.columbia.edu/<wbr></wbr>articles/view/1804</a></span></div>
UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-40820990484570073022012-10-19T06:28:00.002-07:002012-10-19T06:28:52.120-07:00How to Advance the Rule of Law (Hint: Outside the UN)<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;">At the United Nations,
support for the rule of law has the aura of mom’s apple pie: Everybody loves
it. Unfortunately, consensus ends there. UN member states can’t agree on how to
define it, much less how to advance it globally. It’s unsurprising, then, that
last week’s “High-Level UN Meeting on the Rule of Law” (perhaps you missed it?)
was a bust. The meeting’s final declaration was a festival of empty blather,
even by UN standards. And that is a wasted opportunity. For as my friend and
colleague Mark Lagon points out in a just released policy innovation memorandum
from the Council on Foreign Relations, improving the rule of law worldwide may
be the critical step in improving prospects for human dignity and prosperity in
the twenty-first century.<span> </span>The lesson of
the last week is that this effort can’t be left to the United Nations.</span></div>
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UN DESA REFORMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363994817522925461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701701523797415690.post-60865305924087596962012-10-19T06:28:00.000-07:002012-10-19T06:28:11.991-07:00United Nations wants more power<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;">
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United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday called upon nations to grant the UN
more authority over global affairs.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight: normal;">“In reviewing the many
statements that have been made, I have been struck by how much common ground
exists on a wide range of issues," said Assembly President Vuk Jeremic of
Serbia. "Obviously, significant differences of opinion remain to be overcome.
Nevertheless, I believe there is room for optimism.”</span></div>
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