ROME - The U.N.

 ROME - After being roughed up by New York United Nations Security while covering the U.N.

ROME – A third migrant boat sank whilst tackling the treacherous Mediterranean crossing, UN refugee agency, UNHCR Libya confirmed on Tuesday, adding as many as 114 lives to a soaring death toll.

 ROME - Mediatrends America hosted the ‘Climate Change and Energy in South America’ conference on Friday where the Food and Agriculture Organisation presented the troubling recently-published stati

ROME – As many as 523 migrants, saved in seven separate rescue missions, arrived at the port of Pozzallo, Ragusa, aboard the Italian Coast Guard ship Diciotti on Wednesday, officials said.

MILAN – On Monday, League leader and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini announced his intention to hold a special sort of “census" of the Roma population in Italy.

ROME – The court case against British editor John Phillips, accused of defaming the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), has been adjourned once again until Jan 15, 2019.

ROME – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released a statement on Wednesday about the upcoming Italian Insider court case, condemning the “disproportionate” measures taken by FAO officials to silence

ROME – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Nepal have agreed to invest US$68.1 million to significantly improve incomes and food security for 35,000 rural farming househo

ROME – A distinguished delegation of Chinese government officials, representatives from Italy, several African countries and the United Nations, participated in a workshop on Tuesday, aimed at boos

Dear valued reader, The Italian insider Chief Editor John Phillips will appear in the Rome Tribunal on Jan. 14, 2019.

ROME – The League reacted furiously on Monday to accusations from billionaire financier and philanthropist, George Soros, that the far-right Italian party may be financed by the Kremlin, political

ROME — FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, is evidently in a rush to fill vacant posts, fearing negative repercussions from country members of the UN agency which have been raising questio

 ROME –  Programme and Finance Committee Meetings of the FAO being held this this week were expected to hear 'flimsy excuses' from Director General José Graziano da Silva seeking to justify delayin

ROME – As the end of FAO Director General Josè Graziano da Silva’s turbulent term off office approaches, foreign diplomats are asking whether the Brazilian agronomist will, like his predecessors, d

ROME  - Survivors of a migrant shipwreck are taking Italy to court after their work with the Libyan coastguard led to grave violations of human rights, officials say. 

ROME – The FAO in its latest curb on press freedom has banned a reporter from attending a Year of Zayed event to which Italian Insider was invited by the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates, disreg

ROME – Chilean honcho Samuel Varas is expected to become Assistant Director General for Corporate Services at the Food And Agriculture Organisation as Brazilian Director General José Graziano da Si

ROME – The Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD organised a two-day long international conference to explore the critical question: “Rural Inequalities: Evaluating Approaches to Overcome Dispar

ROME – WFP have announced some important expansions in their health coverage for Consultants, short-term International Professional staff (STP) and short-term General Service staff (TAU), who work

 ROME -- The World Food Programme said Wednesday it cannot confirm or deny reports by UN sources that a second WFP country director has been suspended following an investigation. 

 ROME -- A second senior WFP executive and country director of the UN agency has been suspended from duty following a sexual harassment investigation, UN sources said Wednesday.