ROME — The ever-smiling IFAD czar Gilbert Houngbo's new restructuring plan unveiled at a "town hall meeting" a week-end ago purportedly aims at achieving "excellence" but it features a “Pol Pot” s

 ROME -- Luiz Loures, an assistant secretary general of the UN, and deputy executive director of programme at UNAids, has been cleared of sexual harassment allegations following a UN investigation,

ROME – Magistrates who prevented Ignacio Lula da Silva attending an FAO conference in Africa last week-end suspected the trip may have heralded an attempt by the former Brazilian president to avoid

 ROME — A senior Food and Agriculture Organization human resources executive “tried to force himself” on a female member of staff and in another episode began groping an employment candidate during

ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)  claims it is tightening its policy on sexual harassment but critics at the UN agency say the policy is “going backwards” by removing clear deadli

ROME – Apparently a typical former British Army officer, the senior WFP official at the heart of a mushrooming sexual harassment probe became a member of the UN committee setting up rules on sex ab

ROME—The World Food Programme, taking the lead among UN agencies in the Eternal City, is tightening its policy against sexual harassment “to strengthen protection for victims as well as to find and

ROME – A senior World Food Programme executive responsible for the UN agency’s hunger-fighting operations in strife-torn Afghanistan has been suspended from duty in Kabul following an external inve

ROME— One of the few women executives to reach a high-level position in the macho-dominated world of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, Fernanda Guerrieri, has been

ROME – The World Food Programme boosted its income by up to dlrs 1 billion last year as the UN agency retained “strong support” in the United States while Britain, Germany and the EU also are stepp

ROME – A senior FAO official told a court Thursday that Italian Insider had "scandalously" accused him of "providing prostitutes" for former FAO director general Jacques Diouf, strongly denying any

ROME – FAO staff representation bodies have lambasted Director General José Graziano Da Silva at the UN agency’s annual council, saying that under his leadership “FAO seems to continue on a path to

ROME – A number of high level FAO staff are asking for and receiving from Director General José Graziano da Silva a special exemption to the UN agency’s official retirement age of 62, FAO sources s

 ROME — FAO staff are up in arms over the Brazilian management’s decision to close the UN agency over Christmas week but t

 ROME -- The FAO Director General, José Graziano da Silva, reportedly has applied for Italian citizenship but the Italian authorities evidently are dragging their feet over the request, perhaps bec

ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organisation, in an evident, costly move to provide support for the growing flock of rooky Latin American staff members hired by Director General José Graziano da Si

ROME - The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Fellow’s Programme operates in a manner counter to the employment laws of some member states, a well placed FAO source contends.

GENEVA - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, urged EU Member States to promptly relocate all asylum-seekers eligible under the EU’s emergency relocation scheme, and for the scheme to continue b

 ROME – The FAO plans to close shops and commercial banks in its building evidently to prepare for hosting a UN secretariat to coordinate the work of  UN agencies in the Eternal City and provide a

ROME – Will IFAD President Gilbert Houngbo be able to resist the charms of the UN agency’s veteran American spin doctor Cassandra Waldon?

 ROME- Robert Jenkins, UNICEF representative in Jordan, talked Wednesday about the treatment of child refugees in the Kingdom and strategies that the organisation has put into place to ensure that