Jan Egeland, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, on the world’s greatest problems in 2008: One is still eastern Congo, catastrophically neglected. It was the biggest loss of lives on our watch these last fifteen years: five million people died. Darfur has spread as a conflict and as a catastrophe…
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Standing up for your constituents
Obvious lesson in history number 2673: John Dugard, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights for the Palestinian territories, has told the BBC that the UN should stand firmly against the global powers denying human rights to the Palestinians (by not pressuring Israel): “In my most recent report to the General Assembly”¦I will suggest that…