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Update: U.S. walks out on A-jad. When Ahmadinejad was ushered to the podium of the General Assembly to speak, the U.S. delegation walked out, leaving only a low-ranking note-taker to listen to his speech, which indirectly accused the United States and Israel of major human rights violations. The Iranian president spoke hours after French President [...]

Henchmen for Saddam.

More run-of-the-mill corruption at Turtle Bay.

Reuters reporting: The U.N. Security Council voted on Wednesday to establish a special court to prosecute the murder two years ago of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri. Ten council members voted for the Western-sponsored resolution and five — Russia, China, Qatar, Indonesia and South Africa — abstained, with no votes against. The resolution will [...]

Do As I Say… Kofi Annan plans to give the United States the finger in his farewell address. USA Today reports: In a farewell speech on U.S. soil today, retiring United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan plans to deliver a tough critique of President Bush’s policies. He will accuse the administration of trying to secure the [...]

Cam Edwards reports on the U.N. confab in NYC this week on renewed international efforts to undermine the Second Amendment: A remarkable thing happened at the United Nations yesterday. We, the United States, told the world “no”. The messenger was Robert Joseph, the Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. Speaking before the [...]

Hands off of our 2nd amendment, you blue-helmeted bullies. Alan Gotlieb reports: In what can only be a carefully-timed, deliberate insult to the United States and its Constitution, the United Nations is hosting a conference on global gun control aimed directly at our Second Amendment, on dates that include our national holiday, July 4. The [...]

***scroll down for updates*** United Nations Undersecretary-General Jan Egeland–yeah, the same jerk who called America “stingy” during the Indonesian tsunami disaster last year–has come around to offering the U.N.’s help to victims of Hurricane Katrina (hat tip: Catez Stevens, who has more): United Nations Undersecretary-General Jan Egeland, who oversaw relief efforts after the Indian Ocean [...]

The United Nations is trying to figure out how to get its paws on the Internet and take over governance of cyberspace. The good news, for now, is that it can’t decide on how to do it. Via Declan McCullagh: A United Nations working group has published a long-awaited report that effectively challenges US supremacy [...]

Looks like Kofi Annan has not been honest about his relationship with his son’s employer, Cotecna Inspection Services, a major U.N oil-for-food contractor.

Bumping this story to the top from my a.m. post on the NYC blasts. A few more details from CNN: The detainee works at the world body’s weapons inspection agency as an analyst, the official said. Another U.N. source said the man is a satellite imagery analyst. The FBI is not calling the man a [...]

Unbelievable. (Hat tip: GaijinBiker)

The much-anticipated Volcker report on the U.N. Oil for Food fiasco is scheduled to be posted here at noon today. The Wall Street Journal editorializes further on Kofi Annan’s son, Kojo, and his smelly Iraq connections–first reported by investigative blogger Roger L. Simon on Sunday night. Simon mentions that he will work in tandem with [...]

From the London Sunday Times: KOFI ANNAN, the United Nations secretary-general, is said to be struggling with depression and considering his future. Colleagues have reported concerns about Annan ahead of an official report this week that will examine his son Kojo’s connection to the controversial Iraqi oil for food scheme. Depending on the findings of [...]

The Washington Post reports on the broadening of the United Nations sex scandal: The United Nations is facing new allegations of sexual misconduct by U.N. personnel in Burundi, Haiti, Liberia and elsewhere, which is complicating the organization’s efforts to contain a sexual abuse scandal that has tarnished its Nobel Prize-winning peacekeepers in Congo. The allegations [...]

Yesterday morning, I received notification of a new blog ad submission titled “The UN Counterterrorism Program.” The ad text is as follows: “…every time we stand up for human rights and fundamental freedoms, we stand up against terrorism. Every time we act to resolve political disputes, we act against terrorism. Every time we make the [...]

A Baltimore Sun article about sex columnists includes an interesting aside about the priorities of staffers at the United Nations Association (a non-profit organization that supports the work of the United Nations): After Jess Beaton’s boss recovered from his initial embarrassment, [her sex column] became kind of “an office joke” – which got old fast. [...]

As the United Nations’ 49th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women meets this week in N.Y., Wendy McElroy of ifeminists.com asks an excellent question: How can a self-respecting woman, let alone a feminist, legitimize the U.N. through her presence? Read the whole thing.

Reuters reports on a possible resignation in the wake of the U.N. Congo peacekeepers/predators crisis: UNITED NATIONS, Feb 28 (Reuters) – The U.N. representative in the Congo, American William Lacy Swing, may soon resign his post following allegations of widespread sexual abuse by peacekeepers, diplomats said on Monday. Swing, due in New York on Thursday [...]

This time in Haiti. From AP: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – The United Nations is investigating a woman’s allegations that she was raped by three U.N. peacekeepers from Pakistan, a U.N. official said Tuesday. The men claim they paid to have sex. The 23-year-old woman made the report to the police over the weekend, said Damian [...]

Didja hear about the U.N.’s new blog, run by former Kerry aides Peter Daou and Debra DeShong? Among the blog’s initial entries are an attack on FOX News’s Oil for Food investigative report and links to pro-Kyoto Treaty propaganda. Yeah, that’ll solve Kofi Annan’s problems. Interestingly, in a mass e-mail I received frou Daou yesterday [...]

My new column today focuses on the United Nations’ continuing rape scandal. In addition to the crisis in the Congo, I remind readers of the rampant sex crimes uncovered in Bosnia: In 2001, American whistleblower Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska policewoman who worked for U.N. security in Bosnia, uncovered scores of sex crime allegations and prostitution [...]

Six U.N. peacekeepers from Morocco have been arrested for alleged sex crimes in the Congo. The BBC report is here. The head of the Moroccan contingent of UN peacekeepers and his deputy have also been canned. Now, let’s move on to U.N. headquarters. Kofi? Hat tip: Wes Roth *** Previous: Who is Didier Bourguet? The [...]

Source: ABC News This is Didier Bourguet. He’s a United Nations senior official from France accused of running an Internet pedophile ring in the Congo, where the U.N. was supposed to be protecting vulnerable people. Last night on ABC’s 20/20, one of the MSM’s best investigative reporters, Brian Ross, broadcast a damning segment on Bourguet [...]

Benon Sevan is the name that will be on everyone’s lips tomorrow. Bunch of media outlets have previews of the U.N. Oil For Food investigative report to be released in the morning. The Washington Post writes: The report, by a U.N.-appointed inquiry headed by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul A. Volcker, alleges that Benon Sevan’s [...]

He’s got the votes of the grass-roots organization Move America Forward, which is spearheaded by the forces behind the Gray Davis recall. According to WND: “The United Nations is a corrupt and failed institution that dedicates much of its time to attacking American policy and passing anti-American initiatives,” said Move America Forward co-chairman Melanie Morgan, [...]

Shame, shame, shame. This just in from UPI: The U.N. watchdog office says peacekeeping troops have continued to abuse girls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, sometimes paying two eggs for sex. U.N. peacekeeping officials say member states providing the soldiers must send sterner commanders and toughen punishment for perpetrators. A report from the [...]

The U.N.’s Mr. Stingy now says our military assets–helicopters, boats, and other transport equipment–are “worth their weight in gold.” You’re welcome, ingrate. Meanwhile, The Diplomad reports on an outrageous suggestion from a local U.N. rep that our military personnel in Aceh (as well as Australians helping out with air ops) take off their uniforms and [...]

Kofi Annan is assuring victims of the massive earthquake/tsunamis overseas that help is on the way: The United Nations is sending special teams to countries hit by the killer quake and the tsunami waves, even as all UNICEF offices in the quake-hit region have been mobilised to support relief efforts. “UN disaster assessment and coordination [...]

Annan Pledges to Aid in Oil-For-Food Probe