Tag: United Nations

The World Food Programme: From a Small FAO Unit to Top UN Humanitarian Agency When children outgrow their parents...That is ...

My (Adventurous) Life at the United Nations: An Unexpected End to a Drafting Committee Session. 14 November 1991, 26th FAO ...

My (Adventurous) Life at the United Nations: First Mission, Mauritania October 1980. The sky is an intense blue over Mauritania’s ...

In the 1990s, the political world,  the so-called "international community" could not countenance the growth of a UN agency that apparently ...

The oldest United Nations technical agency, and at one point in its chaotic history, the largest, has a bizarre name ...

To an idle observer dropping in from Outer Space, the UN Security Council is the strongest organ of the United ...

Sorry to disappoint, but the UN is neither. Not a beast, not a dream utopia. Too often in the news ...