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Shashi Tharoor : Reflections on a changing United Nations
Shashi Tharoor

SHASHI ON SUNDAY (1 April 2007) April Fool’s Day 2007 is actually a rather serious day for your columnist. Yesterday I ended my career as an international civil servant, just one month shy of what would have been 29 years at the United Nations. Today is the first day of the rest of my life, and yet I can’t help looking back a bit at the Organization I’ve just left behind. I joined the UN in 1978 as an…

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"ReliefWeb" Interview with Sharon Rusu, Acting Coordinator
Sharon Rusu

For humanitarians worldwide, journalists, donors and many others, ReliefWeb is a well-known name. It all started here in Geneva in the 1980s and has grown into a global reference for humanitarian information. Today, ReliefWeb has offices around the world, spanning major time zones, to ensure that nothing escapes the attention of the international community. We wanted to know a little bit more about ReliefWeb so we went knocking on their door, where Ms Sharon Rusu, the ReliefWeb coordinator, is…

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