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 ROME – Amid concern over ICCROM’s hiring of a constellation of cronies from the FAO by the cultural quango's Director-General, Aruna Francesca Maria Gujral, dipl

ROME – The recruitment by ICCROM of highly paid, officialy retired FAO consultants could be in direct violation of the United Nations Pension Fund rules of which the cultural quango is a participan

 ROME – The appointment of multi-millionaire heiress Annick Van Houtte to a sinecure at a Rome-based UN cultural quango has called into question again the leaders

  Sir, Stephanie Hodge, a former senior manager within the UN system, has publicly revisited her grievances about her departure—echoin

 ROME – The ICCROM cultural heritage quango director general Aruna Francesca Gujral is “running unchecked, squandering public money on her friends while crying for an increase in funding,” diplomat

 ROME – The proposed 2026-2027 regular budget for troubled ICCROM completely ignores the likelihood of the United States pullings its funding for the Rome-based c

 VIENNA -- Rafael Grossi, the UN atomic agency chief, proudly touts gender parity at the IAEA while performing a comical tightrope act—distancing himself from the very DEI policies he once champion

 VIENNA -- Rafael Grossi, the IAEA’s fun-loving Director General, is parading as a reformer while presiding over a cesspool of privilege and hypocrisy that inside

 ROME – An ‘honorary judge’ has ruled that the trail of Italian Insider’s chief editor on charges of allefgedly threatening the FAO chief economist, Maxim Torero,

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ROME-Famine threatens people across Gaza as violence intensifies, border crossings remain closed and food is dangerously scarce.

   VIENNA— As if the meteoric rise of Tunisian Imed Zabaar at the IAEA were not enough, diplomats are bewildered by his younger brother Ahmed Zaabar’s equally rap

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 VIENNA – As the ambitious Argentine head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi,  seeks to burnish his credentials as a candidate to be the next UN secretary general, diplom

  GENEVA– Earlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its “Summaries of Outcomes of Substantiated I

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 ROME – World Food Programme employees held one of their most important all-staff meetings in the history of the UN agency this week without Executive Director Ci

 ROME -- Veronique Sainte-Luce, Chief of NGO Partnerships at the World Food Programme, and Stefanos Fotiou at the FAO office of Sustainable development goals, as