The United Nations logo is displayed on a door at U.N. headquarters in New York February 26, 2011. REUTERS/ JOSHUA LOTT
Anthony Banbury, New York Times: I Love the U.N., but It Is Failing
I HAVE worked for the United Nations for most of the last three decades. I was a human rights officer in Haiti in the 1990s and served in the former Yugoslavia during the Srebrenica genocide. I helped lead the response to the Indian Ocean tsunami and the Haitian earthquake, planned the mission to eliminate Syrian chemical weapons, and most recently led the Ebola mission in West Africa. I care deeply for the principles the United Nations is designed to uphold.
And that’s why I have decided to leave.
The world faces a range of terrifying crises, from the threat of climate change to terrorist breeding grounds in places like Syria, Iraq and Somalia. The United Nations is uniquely placed to meet these challenges, and it is doing invaluable work, like protecting civilians and delivering humanitarian aid in South Sudan and elsewhere. But in terms of its overall mission, thanks to colossal mismanagement, the United Nations is failing.
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WNU Editor: I worked for the UN for 6 years. It was the best of times .... and it was the worst of times. Anthony Banbury analysis is spot on ... mind you .... I was saying the same thing 25 years ago.
2 comments:
The U.N. is failing also for the rising role of international organization like G8, G20, IMF, ECB and NATO.
Those are organization for the rich elite and not want a better U.N. that eventually can change their politics.
So the League Of Nations is going down the crapper I'll shed no tears, biggest nothing in history.
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