American
at UNESCO quits amid auditing rebuke [ 20 March 2007 ]
This is an unusual one. He was at it [ or
not ], rather than the auditor. Normally it is auditors who get leaned
on for exposing the fraud. Perhaps he didn't pay the right people
enough.
UN Fraud Department Under Investigation For
Thieving [ 16 December
2007 ]
QUOTE
Over the past four years, Inspector General
Stuart W. Bowen Jr. and his staff have
probed allegations of waste and fraud in the $22 billion U.S. effort to
rebuild
Iraq.
Their work has led to arrests, indictments and millions of dollars in
fines. And it has earned Bowen, who had been a legal adviser to
President Bush, many admirers among both
parties on
Capitol Hill for his efforts to identify
overspending and mismanagement.
But
Bowen's office has also been
roiled by allegations of its own
overspending and mismanagement. Current and former employees have
complained about overtime policies that allowed 10 staff members to
earn more than $250,000 each last year. They have questioned the
oversight of a $3.5 million book project about Iraq's reconstruction
modeled after the
9/11 Commission report. And they have
alleged that Bowen and his deputy have improperly snooped into their
staff's e-mail messages.
UNQUOTE
Sed quis
custodiet ipsos custodes
- But who shall guard the guardians? Some one was not happy.
His snout
was not in the trough deep enough. The UN was the bunch of comedians who
brought us the food for oil boondoggle that fed billions to Saddam
Hussein.
UN
peacekeepers sexually abuse children
[ 27 May 2008 ]
QUOTE
More than half of the children interviewed in three countries,
Ivory Coast, South Sudan and Haiti, knew of cases of forced sex with aid staff
or peacekeepers................
Similar allegations have dogged UN missions since the organisation sent peacekeepers to Cambodia in the 1990s. However, today's report, from Save The Children, is the first to point the finger at civilian aid staff, including those working for British charities, as well as soldiers.
Its findings suggest a continuing lack of action despite promises to tackle
alleged abuse made at a conference of UN officials and aid agencies in December
2006.
UNQUOTE
The UN is corrupt. It has long been corrupt and does not really care. It has
power. It can so it does.
Unleash The Dogs Of Peace [
29 July 2009 ]
QUOTE
In November 1999, the United
Nations Security Council authorized sending peacekeepers to the Democratic
Republic of Congo. Since then, despite the growth of the UN force to more
than 18,000 personnel, at a cost of more than $1 billion a year, violence
and turmoil have killed millions more Congolese. Of course, some things
haven�t helped, like the Pakistani peacekeepers who rearmed, in return for
gold, the militia they were supposed to be disarming; or the Indian troops
who reportedly traded arms for ivory from the rebels and bought dope from
them in the bargain; or the contingent of UN troops who failed to stop a
massacre of 150 people taking place less than a mile away..........
There is a different, more robust approach to making peace in nasty
places: deploy private military companies like Executive Outcomes, whose
small, highly trained force defeated insurgencies in Sierra Leone and Angola
during the 1990s. Executive Outcomes is now out of business. But as
researchers like Peter Singer have documented, the private-military-company
marketplace now fields scores of firms (including the U.S. giants Xe�formerly
Blackwater�and DynCorp) that take in billions in revenue. Put them on
retainer, and they�ll go where they�re paid to go�unlike every one of the 19
countries that had pledged troops on a standby basis for UN peacekeeping and
then refused, in 1994, to send them to Rwanda.
UNQUOTE
Corrupt,
incompetent and armed. It could be fairly good idea for those with the guns.
UN peacekeeping force turns blind eye to mass rape in Darfur, victims say
[ 7 November 2015 ]
What's new? Nothing.
UN Soldiers Are Committing Widespread Child Rape [ 31 May 2016 ]
See if you can guess what colour the perpetrators are.
UN troops 'abused at least eight women and girls' in Central African Republic
[
4 February 2016 ]
They can so they do.
New allegations of gang rape against UN peacekeepers in Central African Republic [ ? ]
UN reveals claims of sexual assault by peacekeepers
The UN human rights office has disclosed new claims of abuse by
peacekeepers in the Central African Republic. The accused soldiers
are said to have been part of the European Union's contingent in the
war-torn nation. (29.01.2016)
New rape allegations against UN troops in Central African
Republic UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic are facing new
rape allegations. The news comes after the head of the mission was
fired due to several scandals involving the troops. (19.08.2015)
The activities of UN soldiers in Central African Republic are in the spotlight, following the sacking of their head of mission. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon acted following a string of allegations, including rape. (13.08.2015)
South Sudan releases UN peacekeepers, contractors still detained
Rebels in South Sudan have freed UN peacekeepers after seizing a
fuel barge, but have not released crew members. The UN is "extremely
concerned" about its contractors amidst reports of war crimes in the
volatile country. (30.10.2015)
