Venezuela boasts of having the largest oil reserves on the planet, and a massive exodus of its people means that there are almost eight million fewer mouths to feed, but still some five million Venezuelans are going hungry in the country, the United Nations says, a number that surpassed only by Brazil and Haiti in the Western Hemisphere. According to the most recent report from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization , hunger afflicts 17.6% of Venezuela’s population, a rate that is among the highest in the region. The report,...

The United Nations’s Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Tlaleng Mofokeng, is a poster child for the campaign to revoke recognition of not only UNRWA but the United Nations itself, and pull all funding for the UN. Here is the “professionalism” Mofokeng exhibits in her social media postings, the same ones in which she touts her status as “UN Special Rapporteur Right to Health | M.D | Associate Prof: Law | Dr T: A Guide to Sexual Health & Pleasure | Cover Star.” Instead of relying on...

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President Trump’s choice to become the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations refused to say Tuesday whether the Palestinian people have the right to self-determination. New York Republican Congressmember Elise Stefanik made the comments during her confirmation hearing at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where she confirmed to Maryland Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen that she believes Israel has a “biblical” right of dominion over the occupied West Bank. Sen. Chris Van Hollen: “I’m rarely surprised by answers in my office, but I did ask you whether you subscribe...

President Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to the United Nations promised on Tuesday to push to align the global body more closely with U.S. interests and to determine whether to continue funding U.N. agencies that are “antisemitic or engaging in fraud, corruption or terrorism.” “We must drive reform,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-New York) told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a confirmation hearing. “The U.N. has not lived up to [its] founding mission, and we must demand better,” she said. “It is imperative to ensure strong American leadership.” Majorities in...

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) assured skeptical Senate Democrats during her confirmation hearing as President Trump’s pick for U.N. ambassador that she is committed to engaging in the United Nations, saying it’s a priority venue to challenge China’s push for dominance on the global stage.