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JOHANNESBURG -- The official order of business yesterday was the introduction of The Elders: convened at the request of Nelson Mandela, a collection of former leaders that has begun to work together to advance the causes of peace and global justice. Five Nobel Laureates and a handful of other eminences gathered on the stage in Johannesburg as Mr. Mandela announced that they would seek to fulfill the traditional role of elders in a village, providing wisdom and leadership and attempting to resolve conflicts, taking on everything from climate change to the fighting in Darfur.<>p>snip But as the Elders sat in...

Today’s “International Community, that group of utterly feckless, corrupt, boobs produce lots of words, resolutions and demands but of course no substantial action. The head hypocrite and the worst Secretary General in U.N history Mr. Koffi Annan has overseen the continued devolution of an already failed , corrupt and inept institution. Mr. Annan’s has overseen the devolution of this never-good institution into an institution of moral and criminal depravity. Here are some of the things Mr. Anna’s U.N has accomplished: * Engaged in the rape and pimping of adolescent refugees in around the globe. * Overseen the largest bribery scandal...

UNITED Nations chief Kofi Annan was embroiled in another huge row last night after secret changes were made to a report linking Syria to the murder of Lebanon’s ex-PM. Family members of Syria’s President Bashar Assad were implicated in the killings — but dropped from a printed version of the UN report. Amazingly, the deletions were spotted when an electronic version was issued by mistake. Computer experts said the crucial changes were made while the report’s author was meeting Secretary General Annan. The report alleged Maher Assad — brother of President Assad — plotted the killing of Rafik Hariri and...

Sudan a Painful Crisis – Help is On The Way What constitutes a “humanitarian crisis?” Sadly we all know what happened December 26, 2004. What was it? A tsunami left its signature on several nations, killing 226,000 plus people and destroyed countless lives – forever changing unnumbered individuals. But do we know what has been going on in Sudan for the last 20 years? Sudan, the war torn country of which the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has dubbed “the world's worst humanitarian crisis” is nothing less than that, a crisis. Fatima a 28 year old widow who...

World Economic Forum Pushes Global Agenda (Socialism on your doorstep!!) NewsMax.com Wires, Friday, Jan. 28, 2005 DAVOS, Switzerland -- The world's richest man, one of its most visible social activists and Britain's leader put a sharp focus on the horrors facing Africa's poor on Thursday, saying the planet's indifference to the suffering has been scandalous. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has made Africa a focus of his leadership of the G-8 this year, said the continent's plight is "a scar on the conscience of the world" and questioned whether the global community would allow such poverty to persist anywhere...

UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan won a standing ovation from the U.N. General Assembly, a rare public display of support in response to recent calls for his resignation from several U.S. lawmakers. U.S. deputy ambassador Patrick Kennedy joined fellow diplomats as they rose to their feet Wednesday, despite President Bush's refusal to support the U.N. chief pending the results of an investigation into alleged corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq.[snip]"In 15 years I've spent at the United Nations, this is the second time that the General Assembly had a standing ovation for a leader," he said. The...

WASHINGTON — The son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan used his father's worldwide connections to wheel and deal with heads of state — at U.N. gatherings — on behalf of a controversial Swiss company that won a lucrative oil-for-food program contract, The Post has learned. The intense lobbying by Annan's 29-year old son, Kojo, was disclosed in a raft of internal company documents — including Kojo Annan's expense reports — that the company recently turned over to congressional committees under a subpoena. The memos provide the most revealing look to date at the business conflicts that are now at...

If the UN doesn't aid the U.S. in rebuilding Iraq, it risks total irrelevance on the world stage Kofi Annan's ringing denunciation of unilateralism, and his spirited defence of the United Nations as the cornerstone of "collective security" in the post-Second World War era were, no doubt, music to the ears of those who deplored U.S. President George W. Bush's attack on Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein's regime. The UN Secretary-General may have been indulging in some wishful, or perhaps revisionist, thinking when he asserted that "however imperfectly, world peace and security have rested" on the UN's founding principles: collective...

By Alex Kirby BBC News Online environment correspondent The world is now in earnest about working to end poverty, according to the United Nations official running the Earth Summit, Nitin Desai. He believes the meeting will succeed, despite criticism of its huge and unwieldy agenda. A decision by President Bush to attend would be "a very important indication of support". Mr Desai said the way the world was developing lent the summit an unmistakeable urgency. He was speaking to BBC News Online about a report, Global Challenge, Global Opportunity: Trends in sustainable development, published by the UN department of economic...