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Kofi Annan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kofi Atta Annan (born April 8, 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat and the seventh and current Secretary-General of the United Nations. Annan was born to Henry Reginald and Victoria Annan in the Kofandros section of Kumasi, Ghana. Annan was Secretary-General during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and called for the United States and the United Kingdom not to invade without UN support. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kofi_Annan   (2213 words)

Regent Forum Annan, by contrast, seems to inhabit a different universe--one in which the chief problem lies not in the U.N.'s complicity, including his own, in the biggest fraud in the history of humanitarian relief, but rather in the attempts to shine any light on all that sleaze. Annan, funded to the tune of $30 million out of one of the old Oil for Food accounts it is supposed to be investigating, and not planning to clock in with any specific results until sometime next summer. Annan's response was not to throttle back on Oil for Food but to go before the Security Council a few months later and urge that Baghdad be allowed to import oil equipment along with the food and medicine to which the program had been initially limited. regentforum.blogspot.com   (18194 words)

Bible Prophecy - The Omega Letter - Christian Intelligence - News & Current Events Kofi Annan has run the UN as if it were some Third World African dictatorship, handing out sweetheart deals in exchange for favors with an abandon that would shock even entrenched dictators like Murbarak or the House of Saud. Annan knew when he was bringing Primakov into the cadre of 'wise men' that Primakov was already in Saddam's pocket. Kofi Annan's son Kobe is up to his neck in dirty oil deals through his role as a 'consultant' to Kotechna, a firm that made millions thanks to Oil-For-Food contracts that started flowing in as soon as Kobe went on staff. www.omegaletter.com /articles.asp?ArticleID=4954   (1454 words)

AEGiS-UPI: Annan: coordinate African anti-AIDS fight Annan said the world has begun to heed the call for billions of dollars in assistance, "rather than millions," to be spent on AIDS in Africa. Annan also visited U.N. agency projects and was a guest at an Ethiopian government lunch. Friday, after a news conference, Annan was to fly to Asmara, opening an air route to the Eritrean capital for the first time since war between the two neighbors began two years ago. www.aegis.com /news/upi/2000/UP001208.html   (1052 words)

Iraq: Beyond Abu Ghraib: Detention and torture in Iraq - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) During this visit he also saw his son lying on the floor of the hotel lobby with six other hotel employees with their hands behind their heads. Yet, visits to places of detention by independent monitoring bodies are an important safeguard for persons deprived of their liberty. Visits enable experts to examine at first hand the conditions of detention and treatment of detainees and to make recommendations for improvements. web.amnesty.org /library/index/engMDE140012006?open&of=eng-IRQ   (16173 words)

Kofi Annan’s Letter And Good News About Ganji (Rooz)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) At the same time, prison and Tehran Prosecutor’s Office officials continue to say that Ganji continues not to be allowed to be visited because of the request of the medical team at Milad hospital. Officials have said that doctors believed that such visitations would only encourage him to continue his strike, thus worsening his medical condition. In a related news that has made human rights and political activists happy is the news that the prison medical leave of another long-time prisoner, Amir Entezam, a former ambassador and government spokesman during Mehdi Bazargan’s premiership during the first year of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, has been extended. www.roozonline.com /english/009595.shtml   (504 words)

Tibet Initiative Deutschland - Newsletter Tibet Bureau Genf Sonam Dekyi on her recent visit to Tibet to see her imprisoned son I was filled with mixed emotions when I received permission from the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi to travel into Tibet to visit my son, Ngawang Choephel, who is serving 18 years prison sentence in Tibet. Annan saying that he could not come, but if he had been able to attend, he would have withdrawn in protest against this "disgraceful decision." The Rev. Jesse Jackson is among the prominent spiritual leaders of this country who have been invited to the Millennium Summit. Annan, giving him a chance to redeem part of his reputation as someone purportedly concerned with human rights: "We ask the U.N. to reverse its long-standing policy, one that was started long before you became Secretary General, of bowing to political pressure and choosing to ignore the genocide in Tibet. www.users.odn.de /~tid/news08.htm   (20355 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) The compromise proposal is meant to break that deadlock, said the diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the details were not released. On a visit to Vietnam, Annan urged Iran to clarify whether it is trying to develop nuclear weapons, and he appealed for a negotiated solution to the dispute. Annan said Iran should work with U.N. nuclear inspectors "to lift the cloud of uncertainty surrounding its nuclear project, whether it is seeking nuclear weapons or if it's only peaceful." www.11alive.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=80234   (508 words)

Divorce -- Sudan Peninsula On-line,: RUMBEK, Sudan: UN chief Kofi Annan said yesterday he would press donors to meet aid pledges for southern Sudan after he was confronted by a stark message on... PolitInfo.com,: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is in southern Sudan Sunday to discuss a January peace deal ending a 21-year war between the Sudanese government and southern... Reuters AlertNet,: General Kofi Annan warned on Thursday that the world was facing a race against time to resolve the crisis in the war-torn Darfur region of western Sudan. bluegrouper.com /feb2004/Divorce/Sudan.html   (4422 words)

ABC News: Annan Says U.S. Should Close Gitmo Prison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) By EDITH M. UNITED NATIONS Feb 17, 2006 (AP)— Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday said the United States should close the prison at Guantanamo Bay for terror suspects as soon as possible, backing a key conclusion of a U.N.-appointed independent panel. Annan told reporters he didn't necessarily agree with everything in the report, but "the basic premise, that we need to be careful to have a balance between effective action against terrorism and individual liberties and civil rights, I think is valid." Annan said the report by a U.N.-appointed independent panel was not a U.N. report but one by individual experts. abcnews.go.com /GMA/wireStory?id=1630421&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312   (452 words)

[News] Haiti: Ron Voss taken into police custody Von Ross' Visitation House is a nice stop in Haiti for foreigners at the scariest of times, to say the least about the post-Coup d'etat hell Haitians are living in and trying to survive. There is definitely a lot of panic in Haiti right now because of last weekend's prison break and the mounting pressure from human rights organizations denouncing the interim government's actions against the Haitian majority and the former military's executions of police officers and civilians. I tried to find the Visitation's website to share more details on Ron Voss with you but only found this brief information (which may not be updated): "The Izmery Center works in collaboration with the Visitation House in the capital. www.freedomarchives.org /pipermail/news_freedomarchives.org/2005-February/001014.html   (864 words)

Considerettes KOFI ANNAN faced growing pressure to stand down as UN Secretary-General yesterday when an independent inquiry into the Iraq Oil-for-Food scandal found that UN documents were shredded in a possible cover-up. Kofi Annan, the beleaguered United Nations secretary general, is expected to sacrifice his son's reputation today as he fights to save his own position after a damaging report into a family conflict of interest. Mr Annan has said that he was "disappointed and surprised" when he learned that Kojo continued to be paid by Cotecna after 1998 when the firm was awarded a contract to monitor the oil-for-food programme. www.thepaytons.org /essays/considerettes/2005_03_01_archive.html   (12398 words)

Terri Schindler Schiavo's Parents Denied Visitation, Information -- 10/22/2003 While Schiavo's attorney claimed doctors were afraid the wafer used in the rite might choke Terri, the family believes Schiavo did not want to risk public confirmation that Terri is capable of swallowing soft food on her own. Terri's brother, Robert "Bobby" Schindler, Jr., attempted to visit her at the hospital Tuesday night but was refused access and "was told that they could not share any information with him," Hennessy said. While Terri's life is not in as much danger as it was while her feeding tube was removed, Hennessy explained that her family still has to act because her husband still wants her dead. www.cnsnews.com /ViewCulture.asp?Try=No&Page=/Culture/archive/200310/CUL20031022e.html   (1019 words)

Expo Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) UN Secretary General Kofi Annan recently scaled down his request for funding for a Special Court for Sierra Leone, citing a shortfall in voluntary contributions to fund the court. Annan’s initial requests for 84 million dollars to conduct the court over 3 years has now been scaled down to 57 million dollars including 16 million dollars for the first year. According to a UNAMSIL press statement, Disarmament began yesterday during a visit to the area by a team led by UNAMSIL’s Deputy Force Commander, Maj. Gen. Martin Luther Agwai, the interim RUF leader, Gen. Issa Sesay, and Mr. www.expotimes.net /pastissues/issue010718/update2.htm   (1140 words)

UN Newsletter Annan said in a statement issued by a UN spokesman on the bomb explosions that killed or injured scores on people in northern Chechnya and the Saudi Arabian capital. Annan also commended the courage shown by MONUC personnel in Bunia, as well as by members of the UN agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) located there, who are trying to keep an elusive peace, despite overwhelming odds. Annan recommended deploying such a "military liaison group" to be co-located with the field headquarters of the French and ECOWAS forces, as well as those of the government and rebel forces. www.unic.org.in /News/2003/nl/nl20.html   (6245 words)

Classical Values :: April 2004 Archives The latest UN scandal, uncovered by the New Yorker magazine, is that in 1994 Secretary General Kofi Annan, then director of peacekeeping, ordered UN troops in Rwanda not to intervene to stop a planned genocide campaign that took half a million lives. Annan, a veteran UN bureaucrat, has reacted to the controversy over his role in the genocide by blaming the United States for not doing more to save lives. Doubting my sanity, I visited the Inquirer's web site, where I found what I have to assume will be tomorrow's "news" -- a thoroughly lame write-up -- which nowhere reports that the corruption involved Kofi Annan himself. www.classicalvalues.com /archives/2004_04.html   (11591 words)

J M I N e w s . c o m Salarkia, Tehran's deputy prosecutor claims that Ganji is no visitation bans, hat he could be visited on the request of his attorney and family members and the approval of the prosecutor, and that there has been no visitation request from the attorney or the family members during this period. To this I would like to respond by saying that this is the most laughable excuse ever, because as officials have repeatedly said that when a prisoner is seeing his term, as is Mr. In my last visit, Ganji weighted around 50 kg and his body was cold due to his low blood pressure. www.jminews.com /news/en?ni=101&mi=5   (654 words)

September 2000 Clashes Information Center - Press Releases 9 October 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) Azmi Bishara Urgent Appeal to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan for the protection of the Palestinian national minority in Israel The official excuse for the current violent repression of the Palestinian national minority in Israel is our public protest brought on by the visit of MK Ariel Sharon to Haram al-Sharif in the old city of Jerusalem, and its bloody aftermath. They have visited to sites in Ramallah, Nablus, East Jerusalem, Nazareth, Arabah and other parts of northern Israel, places where demonstrators have died after the Israeli security forces fired on demonstrators and rioters. www.addameer.org /september2000/pressreleases/monday9october.html   (3818 words)

VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks 31/10/05 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the other principles of the Diplomatic Quartet today consulted on the latest violence in the Middle East, condemning Wednesday’s terrorist attack in Israel claimed by the Damascus-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad and calling on Syria to take immediate action against the group. Annan, the children said they suffer from extreme financial, social and psychological pressures at the hands of the Israelis whose aim is to destroy their innocent young spirits. Nearly four years after the visits were first requested, Washington said on Friday the three envoys, including the UN rapporteur on torture, could visit foreign terrorism suspects because it had “nothing to hide”. www.williambowles.info /isrl-pal/vtjp/2005/vtjp_311005.html   (7908 words)

Isaias Afewerki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In May 2002 all Christian denominations apart from the Catholic, Orthodox and Evangelical Lutheran churches were ordered to close their churches in respect of the religious regulations in effect since Colonial Eritrea. Due to his frustration with the stalemated peace process with Ethiopia, the President of Eritrea wrote a series of Eleven Letters to the UN Security Council and Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The ruling PFDJ, which controls large financial, construction, transportation, communication and agricultural intersts, is the only party allowed to operate in the country. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaias_Afewerki   (818 words)

H.E. Museveni, 07/12/2000, ADF 2000 Although the visitation was worldwide, sub-Saharan Africa, with 10 per cent of the world's population, accounts for 24.5 million people or 71 per cent out of the 34.3 million people in the world estimated to be living with HIV. Those who carried the cross of HIV/AIDS and their relatives, given the stigma attached to the disease as a disease of shame, especially when it became clear that it was mainly sexually transmitted, did what they could to conceal and deny their condition. Moreover, in the tyranny and anarchy that reigned in out country at that time, nothing was done to respond to this serious visitation. www.uneca.org /fda2000/daily_updates/speeches/001207_museveni.htm   (1900 words)

the fourth rail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) Visit Sunbreak City to see how an Army recruiter was treated at Seattle Central Community College. Masked men visited people in their homes and shops to warn that going to the polls would mean death. Men used to wielding power and influence in their nations are reduced to petty squabbles amongst themselves over latrine duty and other chores, status in the prison hierarchy, visitation rights, and other concerns They also bear witness against each other in an attempt to gain the upper hand. billroggio.com /archives/iraq/index.php   (15504 words)

Adventist Review : World Religion News On August 18, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan told the Security Council that even as a fragile peace appears to tenuously hold in the south, the war in Darfur, which erupted in February 2003, is destroying that region. Gay Catholic groups are worried that the visits may become an inquisition for gay seminarians; Pope Benedict XVI reportedly is considering guidelines on whether the church should ban all gay men -- celibate or otherwise -- from the priesthood. The visits will encompass seminaries run by dioceses and religious orders (such as the Jesuits or Franciscans); about one-third of U.S. priests are trained by religious orders, according to Catholic News Service. www.adventistreview.org /2005-1538/worldnews.html   (1608 words)

Tourism - Dominican Today   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) Madrid.– United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan praised the part played by tourism in encouraging the development of poorer nations and the World Tourism Organization's (UNWTO) role in this when he visited the organization in Madrid on 7 April. In welcoming Mr Annan, UNWTO Secretary-General Francesco Frangialli said that as one of the biggest categories of international trade, tourism has "the capacity to contribute decisively in the fight against poverty". Kofi Annan praises tourism’s potential on visit to UNWTO www.dominicantoday.com /app/article.aspx?id=12359   (871 words)

Investigate Human Rights Abuses and Detention Policies: Letter to Congress - FCNL Issues And, the practice of mass detentions in the name of fighting the “war on terror” and in violation of international law must end. The International Secretariat of the World Organization Against Torture, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and the UN Special Rapporteur on torture have all expressed grave concerns over the reports of torture, and cruel and degrading treatment of prisoners by U.S. forces. The Iraqi people continue to live in fear of night-time raids, the detention of family members without notice or information of their whereabouts, and violence perpetrated by occupying forces in military prisons like Abu Ghraib. www.fcnl.org /issues/item.php?item_id=1062&issue_id=119   (519 words)

AZM | Israeli MIA's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) ASK the Red Cross to assure humane treatment, visitation rights and the release of the prisoners. URGE UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to continue his important efforts to bring about the release of the captives. Kofi Annan Secretary General United Nations New York, NY 10017 inquiries@un.org www.azm.org /mia.shtml   (374 words)

Bits 'n' Pieces - Interim, Aug 2003 The Canadian Press reports that "a part-time job counselling United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is almost a certainty" for Jean Chretien once he steps down as prime minister... Near the nation's capital, Delhi, there are only 869 females born per 1,000 males, as baby girls are more likely to be aborted and uncared for after birth than boys. Argentina grants same-sex partners legal status, giving them special insurance and hospital visitation rights, but not the ability to "marry" or adopt children. www.theinterim.com /2003/aug/bitsnpieces.html   (759 words)

[No title] "Our planet is still in need of intensive care," said United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in his World Environment Day address. At the web site of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) on World Environment Day 2002, it is made clear that in spite of the progress made in recent years, many of the human activities that hurt the planet in the 20th century persist today. A recently released UNEP report, Global Environment Outlook, states that within a few years 70 percent of the world's land surface could be seriously damaged by infrastructure projects, resource exploitation and the expansion of… civilization. www.tierramerica.net /english/2002/0602/iconectate.shtml   (891 words)

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