UN ‘cannot be trusted to police itself,’ whistleblower says
ROME-Peter Anthony Gallo, Director of ‘Hear their Cries’ and former UN investigator, speaks to the Italian Insider about Oxfam and the UN admission that privileges and im
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ROME-Peter Anthony Gallo, Director of ‘Hear their Cries’ and former UN investigator, speaks to the Italian Insider about Oxfam and the UN admission that privileges and im
ROME – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) announced the signing of a new agreement between the UN agency and the government of Saudi Arabia “to help boost agriculture produc
ROME - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) announced that they put together a financing package with the Republic of Tajikistan worth dlrs 39.3 million, in order to “help red
ROME – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) announced on Thursday that it would be hosting the 41st session of its Governing Council annual meeting over two days ne
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
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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