Publication: Inner City Press

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated 9 hours ago - 4 reports

As UN's Censorship Alliance Lashes Out from Anonymity, UN Does Nothing

Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, May 24 -- UN scribes from Reuters, Bloomberg News, Voice of America, Agence France Presse and others on the board of the UN Correspondents Association tried to get Inner City Press thrown out of the UN in 2012.In 2013 ... [Published Inner City Press - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Inner City Press, United Nations, Censorship

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

Australian Lesbian Medical Association Wins Vote 19-6, Sudan Complains

Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, May 24 -- A week after the day against homophobia, the Australian Lesbian Medical Association won a vote at the UN for recommendation as special consultative status to ECOSOC. When ALMA's application came up, Pakistan ... [Published Inner City Press - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Sudan, Lesbian, Inner City Press, United Nations

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

International Monetary Fund

As IMF Half-Answers on Tunisia, Grilled on Lagarde, Called on Carpet for Tapie

Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, May 23 -- When the International Monetary Fund held its biweekly embargoed press briefing on Thursday morning, its managing director Christine Lagarde was being grilled in the Court of Justice of the Republic, set up ... [Published Inner City Press - May 23 2013]

Entities: International Monetary Fund, Bernard Tapie, Christine Lagarde

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 4 reports

UN Surveillance Camera Still Up, Palestine Video Still Down, Banning Press

Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, May 23 -- Basic principles of press freedom that the UN abided by in the past are now being violated without so much as an explanation.In 2009 when the UN "inadvertently" installed security cameras over the press offices ... [Published Inner City Press - May 24 2013]

Entities: Inner City Press, Stephane Dujarric, United Nations, surveillance camera

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Kenya Asks UNSC for ICC Cases To Be Dropped, Kiir Slams ICC, Lanka Compared

Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, May 23 -- It took Kenya two letters to get the meeting, but on a rainy Thursday afternoon in New York Kenyan Permanent Representative Kamau Macharia address the 15 members of the UN Security Council. He told them the ... [Published Inner City Press - May 23 2013]

Entities: Inner City Press, Kenya, United Nations, Security

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

On Syria Chemical Weapons, Kane Has Reporter's Information, Sellstrom Next

Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, May 23 -- Back on April 30 at the Russian Mission to the UN, a Russian state television reporter who spent eight months in Syria, Anastasia Popova, told Inner City Press that , the UN panel headed by Paulo Sergio Pinheiro ... [Published Inner City Press - May 23 2013]

Entities: Angela Kane, Chemical Weapons, Inner City Press, Syria

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Uganda Media Closures Brought to Ban's Attention, Free Press Begins at Home

Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, May 23 -- Calling in from Kigali, Rwanda to the UN noon briefing in New York, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's spokesperson Martin Nesirky described a visit to the genocide memorial in the rain; somber. Inner City Press ... [Published Inner City Press - May 23 2013]

Entities: Uganda, Inner City Press, Matthew Lee, United Nations

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 2 reports

On S. Sudan's Oil Cut Off Charges, Sudan Shows ICP Denial, UN on Darfur

Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, May 23 -- Amid charges by South Sudan that Khartoum is responsible for a cut off in the flow of oil for export and sale, Sudan's Permanent Representative Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman arrived at the UN Security Council ... [Published Inner City Press - May 23 2013]

Entities: Sudan, Inner City Press, Darfur, United Nations

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

UN Said It'd Put Erekat Speech Online May 21, Hasn't May 22, Banning Press

Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, May 22 -- On what continuing basis does the UN, after but saying the video would be put online on May 21, not follow through or explain by the end of May 22? Inner City Press asked the first question on May 20 right ... [Published Inner City Press - May 22 2013]

Entities: Stephane Dujarric, Inner City Press, United Nations

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 3 reports

UN Rules Banning Press Work at UNSC Slated for May 24, Now Online Here

Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, May 22 -- The , which provide that the "Security Council stakeout area, including the Turkish Lounge, is not to be used as a permanent workspace for the media," would go into effect after May 24 when the Council moves, ... [Published Inner City Press - May 22 2013]

Entities: Inner City Press, United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, Security, Stephane Dujarric

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

UN Blames "Clerical Error" For Cutting Off UNTV of Palestine's Erakat Speech

Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, May 20 -- On what basis does the UN decide to ? Inner City Press asked the question right after the cut-off, wrote about it, and six and a half hour later was told by the chief of UNTV Stephane Dujarric, "On the video ... [Published Inner City Press - May 21 2013]

Entities: Stephane Dujarric, Saeb Erakat, United Nations, Inner City Press

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 2 reports

UNreal: At UN, Kingdom of Atooi Claims "Seat 25" and Pitches New Currency, Follow this Money?

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, May 20 -- Puerto Rico is debated at the UN as a case of decolonization, but Hawai'i is not. Still on Monday the King or Ali'i Nui of of the Polynesian Kingdom of Atooi appeared at a UN press conference to launch ... [Published Inner City Press - May 20 2013]

Entities: United Nations, Inner City Press, French Polynesia, Fiji, Puerto Rico

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...Inner City Press and FUNCA asked for an update. Dujarric replied at 5:01 pm, copying Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's three top spokespeople, "I have nothing to add to what I've already told you on record on all the issues you raise in your email." So: nothing was done, or will be done. By 8 pm, the UNCA trolls -- Dujarric's personal friends -- began again, celebrating their anonymity...

As UN's Censorship Alliance Lashes Out from Anonymity, UN Does Nothing [Published Inner City Press - 9 hours ago]

...and another, Nesirky's office did answer another of Inner City Press' questions, asked recently at the noon briefing and again Thursday in writing: "On Uganda, I'd like to ask again if any Secretary General or Secretariat views on actions against the media -- Daily Monitor, Red Pepper, Dembe FM and KFM -- in the run upup to the S-G's arrival." Well less than an hour later, this response was provided, which we publish in full:

Uganda Media Closures Brought to Ban's Attention, Free Press Begins at Home [Published Inner City Press - May 23 2013]

...Now a rule has been proposed -- and presented as final -- that "f. The Security Council stakeout area, including the Turkish Lounge, is not to be used as a permanent workspace for the media. When the Council is not in session, correspondents should minimize the amount of time in the area, unless interviewing or conversing with a U N delegate or official."

UNSC Move Rolled Back to May 31, UN Says "No Table" - No Permanent Members? [Published Inner City Press - May 23 2013]

"On the guidelines, we gave you a chance to comment and I thank you for those comments. In the end, these are the UN's guidelines. While we give you a chance to input, we reserve the final say. What I can tell you know is that there will be no tables or work stations set up at the Security Council stakeout when we return. That area is reserved for stakeouts. If you need to work you can do that in the office which has been provided to you by the United Nations."

Less Press Access to UNSC Under Ban, UK May Not Agree, Censorship Alliance [Published Inner City Press - May 23 2013]

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