ROME – Three United Nations agencies based in Rome were marking International Women’s day with an event focusing on the role that technology plays in supporting the empowerment of women in rural ar

 ROME – The flamboyant Brazilian Ambassador to the FAO, João Carlos de Souza-Gomes, was expected to return to his post in the Eternal City this week despit

ROME – Less than half of United Nations staff believe that they will be protected from retaliation if they report misconduct or cooperate with audit investigations, according to a leaked UN interna

GENEVA -- The FAO director general and management are planning to abolish the living allowance for the UN agency's interns, according to the Fair Internship Initiative, an advocacy group based in G

ROME - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Sudan signed a financing agreement worth dlrs 47.5 million that aims to improve the country’s resilience to climate change and

 ROME – A senior World Food Programme executive may have sparked a sex harassment probe by allegedly making "homophobic remarks" to gay employees at the agency’s Kabul office, UN sources have said.

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 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