October 27, 2016 Haiti cholera scandal: US bolsters UN wall of denial, legal investigator says The United Nations’ wall of denial about its responsibility for causing Haiti’s 6-year-old cholera epidemic is stronger than ever -- and a U.N. human rights expert has put the focus directly on the Obama administration for helping to keep the barrier in place.
August 19, 2016 UN stonewall on Haiti cholera epidemic starts to crumble The United Nations’ wall of denial concerning its responsibility for Haiti’s six-year-old cholera epidemic—and claims of diplomatic immunity regarding the consequences-- appears to be crumbling.
July 6, 2016 US punishing North Korean leader for human rights abuses The U.S. is imposing sanctions on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and 10 other top officials for human rights abuses.
May 27, 2016 Patent scandal: US outmaneuvered on UN agency investigation The only United Nations agency ever sanctioned by the U.S. State Department for failing to protect whistle-blowers has just done it again—and left the Obama Administration outmaneuvered and outfoxed in the process, at least so far.
May 24, 2016 Obama calls for greater freedoms in Vietnam after lifting arms embargo President Barack Obama on Tuesday pressed Vietnam to allow greater freedoms for its citizens, arguing that better human rights would improve the communist country's economy, stability and regional power.
May 4, 2016 UN investigators said to take nude photo, ask about prostitution in under-age rape case United Nations peacekeeping investigators looking into alleged sex crimes in the Central African Republic (CAR) have asked under-age girls if they were prostitutes and taken at least one photo of an alleged victim naked as evidence, according to an independent official with direct knowledge of the cases, ӣƵ has learned.
May 4, 2016 EXCLUSIVE: UN sex abuse scandal: Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announces new inquiry Faced with a growing uproar over the United Nations’ handling of allegations of child sexual abuse by non-U.N. peacekeepers in the Central African Republic, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has suddenly scrambled to announce an “external, independent review” panel to examine that issue, along with “a broad range of systemic issues related to how the U.N. responds to serious information of this kind.”
May 4, 2016 UN’s anti-sex abuse policy for peacekeepers is in go-slow mode EXCLUSIVE: Bureaucratic red tape, lack of funding and internal consultations mean the zero tolerance campaign touted by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to curb sexual abuse and exploitation by members of the U.N.’s peacekeeping missions is proceeding very slowly, even though U.N. officials say the campaign is a “very high priority.”
May 4, 2016 UN paid Russian air charters hundreds of millions while Putin invaded Ukraine In the 14 months since Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea and sent proxy fighters to invade eastern Ukraine, Russian companies have won more than $212 million in United Nations contracts to ferry troops, supplies and equipment -- on peacekeeping missions.
May 2, 2016 Key US senator ratchets up urgency on UN sex abuse scandal Senator Bob Corker, head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is wading into the highly charged debate about United Nations peacekeepers and sexual abuse with fast-track proposals to push back against a “culture of impunity” that the U.N.’s own experts have said still permeates the far-flung peacekeeper operations.