Jan 23, 2016
News
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Queens, New York, USA, January 23 2016 – Nurses from Queens General Hospital on the way home from the NiteShift get stuck on an plowed side street of Jamaica. Winter Storm Jonas will continue bringing snow till 5pm Saturday afternoon and is expected to dump close to two feet of snow in the suburbs of New York City. Nurses from Queens General Hospital on the way home from the Nite Shift get stuck on an plowed side street of Jamaica. Winter Storm Jonas will continue bringing snow till 5pm Saturday afternoon and is expected to dump close to two feet [Read More]
Aug 12, 2015
News, United Nations
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Photos by: Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters today he is “anguished, angered and ashamed by recurrent reports over the years of sexual exploitation and abuse by UN forces.” “I cannot put into words how anguished, angered and ashamed I am by recurrent reports over the years of sexual exploitation and abuse by UN forces.” “I have appointed a high-level external independent panel to look into, more closely into the reports of sexual exploitation and abuse in the Central African Republic and our systemic response. I look forward to receiving their findings soon.” Ban also said he has [Read More]
May 11, 2015
Security Council, United Nations
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Reporter: Follow up on that? One question? Thanks. Appreciate it. One issue that has arisen that may not even need to wait for an investigation is that the Central African Republic says that they were never told of this, and given that these were their citizens, I wonder if you—does the U.S. think that when the UN system becomes aware of charges such as these, that the host country should be told? There’s also this issue, in the UN Dispute Tribunal ruling, that the Under Secretary General of Peacekeeping was reported, and the UN didn’t seem to dispute it, to [Read More]
