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Interview with Pat Banks, Co-ordinator and founder of the Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN)

02/01/2008

The Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) celebrated its tenth year of operation last year. A part of the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Human Activities (OCHA), yet independent, IRIN was established in 1995 to provide accurate and timely information about the Great Lakes crisis so that the humanitarian community would be better informed of complex situations and events. Initiated as a text service covering Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), today IRIN is…

Ban Ki-Moon, candidate for the post of the next Secretary-General of the United Nations

11/24/2007

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As you might be aware Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, concludes his term at the end of this year. However, the process of electing his success will take place before the end of his term and it’s expected that the Security Council will start the “examine” the different candidates. It is a general practice that the Security Council recommends to the General Assembly the appointment of the future Secretary-General. The government of the Republic of Korea…