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ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

Major Hollywood Connection!!!!! Someone please archive these photos of Jay Leno, Charleze Therone, Jake Jillenhall, Idrus Elba, Paige Hathaway, and even Oscar at the HDI Global Creative Forum 2010/2011.

http://thehdi.org/global_creative_forum_gallery.html#

ORDOTEMPLIINTERNETIS ago

The man at the podium with Bill and Demi (and in so many other GCF photos) is UN Secretary Ban Ki-Moon

When UN peacekeepers were accused of sexual abuse in 2014, in the Central African Republic, Mr Ban’s administration turned on the whistleblower – who resigned in June, frustrated at “impunity”.

There were no fewer than 99 allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation by the “blue helmets” – as UN military personnel are nicknamed – last year, and there have been 25 new claims this year. And those are just the ones we know about.

Of 69 allegations of abuses levelled against UN peacekeepers in 2015, only 17 investigations were completed by January 2016 – and only one perpetrator was punished, with a nine-day suspension.

He will perhaps, however, be remembered most harshly for his handling of the Haiti cholera crisis, which begun in the autumn of 2010, in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake.

The outbreak killed more than 9,300 Haitians while infecting at least 780,000 overall. Cholera, not seen in Haiti for over a century, is now endemic – and experts determined that the source of the disease was a UN peacekeeping camp.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/what-has-ban-ki-moon-done-for-the-world/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-assembly-ban-idUSKCN11Q1RD

Ban Ki-moon says sexual abuse in UN peacekeeping is 'a cancer in our system’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/14/ban-ki-moon-says-sexual-abuse-in-un-peacekeeping-is-a-cancer-in-our-system