Four out of five dentists agree: the UN isn't doing the deal in Darfur.
Surprisingly, even the UN agrees with that assessment. Those dentists are onto something!
GENEVA - The United Nations is failing to protect millions of people displaced by conflict in Sudan's Darfur region and violence in other hotspots around the world, a U.N. report said Friday. The world body's approach to the problem of people who have fled their homes but not crossed any international borders "is still largely ad hoc and driven more by the personalities and convictions of individuals on the ground than by an institutional, systemwide agenda," the report said. {...}Three different U.N. agencies have staff in Darfur, but their access to the displaced and their activity there have frequently been limited because Sudan's government has at times been reluctant to allow outside involvement, McNamara said. The Sudanese government is allowing the United Nations access to camps in Darfur, but U.N. activity is still limited by a lack of staff and funding. That shortage means the world body has been unable to provide AIDS tests and psychological counseling for rape victims in Darfur's camps, which McNamara called unacceptable. Why, those pesky UN officials are just like cavities! People starve in one country (Iraq) because of the UN's internal graft protection system and they're investigating the matter! People are dying, being forced to flee from their homes, and enough raping and pillaging is going on in Darfur to make a Centurion proud, and they're issuing a report about how they're not doing so good of a job. Wow. I'm impressed, aren't you? It's as if the plaque in the veritable mouth of the UN just stood up and screamed to be removed. I'm all for whipping out the drill and having at it. Posted by Kathy at November 1, 2004 10:43 PM | TrackBack