NGOs slam FAO complicity in Venezuela
ROME -- Fifty NGOs working in Venezuela have appealed to the Food and Agriculture Organisation and other U.N.
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ROME -- Fifty NGOs working in Venezuela have appealed to the Food and Agriculture Organisation and other U.N.
Dear Sir, Thanks for following and informing on inconsistencies related to management of human resources in FAO. While in many cases the mobility policy is strengthening FAO´s capacities in decentr
ROME – The FAO’s internal process of recruitment/promotion of General Service staff has become “a joke” since the fun-loving deputy chef de cabinet, Rakesh Muthoo, took charge of hiring decisions,
ROME — The first version of the hallowed FAO 70th year book was among the documents that had to be destroyed and re-written from scratch due to the poor language skills
ROME – While shameless croneyism is endemic in the FAO’s bloated, Spanish-run communications division, the Partnerships Division at the tro
ROME -- Palazzo Chigi's official photographer was too quick for FAO honcho Mario Lubetkin (right) in this snap of those participating at a meeting between a suntanned Italian Prime Minister Matteo
ROME – The quality of FAO documents and publications has plunged in recent months, becoming frequently unreadable gibberish as increasing numbers of poorly qualified Spanish staff are hired to the
ROME — IFAD President Kanayo Nwanze may have had to move out of his luxury villa because of an expenses scandal but Warwick University has recognized the Nigerian poverty buster's sterling qualitie
ROME – FAO Director General Jose Graziano da Silva surprised donors this week by disclosing that he intends to widen the brief of the famine-fighting UN agency to include migration, an area that is
BRASILIA— FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva has indicated he will give cash-strapped Brazil a 25 percent discount on its annual contribution to the UN agency worth some dlrs 3 million to
ROME – Embattled UN pension fund CEO Sergio Azivù flew into the Eternal City this week to reassure retired staffers owed up to eight months in pension arrears they will be paid soon, UN sources sai
ROME – A Latin American diplomat offered to arrange permanent job contracts for young women working in the messen
ROME – A day after Italy celebrated World Press Freedom day, the trial of Italian Insider’s chief editor resumed Wednesday on libel charges brought by five FAO executives at the Rome-based UN agenc
ROME – FAO general service staff union leader Mauro Pace has accused the UN agency’s management of mounting a “vicious personal attack” against him in an internal intranet communication sent to al
ROME – As FAO’s press office trumpeted José Graziano da Silva’s glorious receipt of an Italian ‘knightship,’ the UN agency director general in a major speech on Africa airbrushed out his links on t
ROME – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva may offer former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a bolthole as a “special advisor” to the UN agency to give Lula immunity from prose
ROME – The FAO has been ordered to pay an Egyptian agronomist dlrs 200,000 in compensation for harassment he underwent from bosses at the UN agency after he refused to pay bribes to a Saudi Arabian