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Home> Lifestyle Flour Made From Insects Will Feed Underfed Populations Sept. 30, 2013 By JOANNA PRISCO via Good Morning America Share 875 Share on email 304 Comments PHOTO: Grasshoppers at a market near Oaxaca, Mex. MBA students at McGill University plan to farm insects in other countries and turn them into protein-rich flour for consumption by malnourished populations. Getty Images Chew on this. A team of MBA students were the recipients of the 2013 Hult Prize earlier this week, providing them with $1 million in seed money to produce an insect-based, protein-rich flour for feeding malnourished populations in other countries....

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A United Nations employee whose sexual harassment claims led former refugee chief Ruud Lubbers to resign now alleges that she was the target of retaliation, and plans to sue him and Secretary-General Kofi Annan, she said Wednesday. Cynthia Brzak, 52, said she hopes her case against Annan and Lubbers, the former prime minister of the Netherlands, will set a precedent example for whistleblowers in the U.N. who believe its internal justice system doesn't protect them against punishment. "My goal is that I don't think anyone in the world is above the law," Brzak said in an...

We've been tracking the U.N.'s sex scandal in the Congo. But over the weekend, the other U.N. sex scandal came to a head. Top U.N. official Ruud Lubbers resigned Sunday over long-brewing accusations of sexual harassment from at least four women, including an American woman who worked on the staff UN High Commissioner for Refugees. This interesting piece in National Business Review credits the old British MSM--singling out The Independent of London--for bringing Lubbers down: Flexing its old media muscle, Britain's Independent claimed the scalp of one of the UN's top leaders today -- refugee chief Ruud Lubbers, who resigned...

GENEVA (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told employees of the refugee agency that his acceptance of their chief's resignation should not be interpreted as indicating the official's guilt on sexual misconduct allegations, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. In a letter distributed to the staff of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Annan stressed that Ruud Lubbers has not been found guilty of any offense, U.N. spokeswoman Marie Heuze said. "My decision to accept his resignation should not be interpreted as a finding of guilt," Annan wrote. "I have accepted his resignation with regret because I greatly appreciate the energy and...

AMSTERDAM — Sex harassment allegations eventually got the better of Ruud Lubbers on Sunday as he quit the post of UN High Commissioner for Refugees, claiming bitterly that United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan had "insulted" him. UN report slams Lubbers over sexual harassment Lubbers announced his decision in a letter to Annan, asserting that the UN did not have sufficient faith in him to continue on in his present capacity. The letter was also sent to various media agencies on Sunday. But Lubbers made clear that he came to the decision himself. The 65-year-old will remain as UNHCR chief until...

REUTERS NEWS AGENCY GENEVA — U.N. refugee chief Ruud Lubbers resigned in the face of sexual harassment charges yesterday, saying he was insulted at the way the case had been handled by his boss, Kofi Annan. Just two days after insisting that he would stay in his Geneva post, Mr. Lubbers released a bitter resignation letter to the U.N. secretary-general in which he said he felt let down by an apparent change of mind by Mr. Annan regarding the case. The complaints, by a 51-year-old female employee of the refugee agency, were investigated by the United Nations over the summer....

GENEVA — U.N. refugee chief Ruud Lubbers resigned in the face of sexual harassment charges yesterday, saying he was insulted at the way the case had been handled by his boss, Kofi Annan. Just two days after insisting that he would stay in his Geneva post, Mr. Lubbers released a bitter resignation letter to the U.N. secretary-general in which he said he felt let down by an apparent change of mind by Mr. Annan regarding the case. The complaints, by a 51-year-old female employee of the refugee agency, were investigated by the United Nations over the summer. Mr. Annan decided...

U.N. Refugee Chief Resigns Amid Scandal Sunday, February 20, 2005 GENEVA — Ruud Lubbers (search), who stepped down Sunday amid allegations of sexual impropriety during four years as head of the U.N. refugee agency, has a long career in public service in the Netherlands and elsewhere.

On Sunday, the head of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, High Commissioner Ruud Lubbers, resigned under pressure after he was found guilty of misconduct for the sexual harassment of a subordinate female worker at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Secretary General Kofi Annan reportedly read the report showing clear evidence of Commissioner Lubbers's conduct and did nothing about it. It seems that protecting the reputation of a friend was more important to Annan than protecting the people who work for the UN. This is unacceptable. When will Annan resign? Unfortunately, this is not the UN's only...

Lubbers quits over UN sex claims Ruud Lubbers has said the claims are unsubstantiated The head of the UN refugee agency, Ruud Lubbers, has resigned following allegations of sexual harassment.In a letter to Secretary General Kofi Annan, Mr Lubbers said he was quitting because of a lack of confidence in him. In the letter Mr Lubbers again denied the allegations against him, contained in a leaked internal UN report. It said that the former Dutch prime minister had engaged in unwanted physical contact with a female employee at his agency in Geneva. The report added that claims made by...

UNITED NATIONS, (AP) -- U.N. refugee chief Ruud Lubbers told Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Sunday he was resigning because of a lack of confidence in him over sexual harassment charges. Lubbers' letter of resignation as U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees was sent to Annan on Sunday, a spokesman said.

Uncertainty hangs over the future of United Nations refugee chief Ruud Lubbers in the organization as the world body began taking a fresh look at an inquiry conducted by it into the allegations of sexual harassment against him. Lubbers asserted yesterday that he would not resign but UN officials said Secretary-General Kofi Annan was consulting lawyers over resurgence of charges of sexual abuse against him and diplomats hinted at the possibility of the top official being forced out of office months before the end of his term. Lubbers met Annan yesterday and told reporters the Secretary-General has not asked him...

U.N. refugee chief Ruud Lubbers insisted Friday that allegations of sexual harassment against him were "made up" and "slander," and said U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan did not request his resignation. But Annan's office said the focus of their meeting was Lubbers' future in the United Nations. At an impromptu news conference after the meeting, Lubbers said he intends to complete his five-year term. "That will mean at the end of this year, January 2006, you will see a new high commissioner," he said. Rumors that Annan wants Lubbers to step down as U.N. high commissioner for refugees intensified following publication...

AMSTERDAM — UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers was found guilty last year of sexual harassment in a confidential report. It also accused him of unwanted sexual advances towards four other female employees, it was revealed on Friday. The United Nation's internal investigations department OIOS found Lubbers guilty of sexual intimidation and abusing his authority. Besides one official complaint, the report said allegations from several other women indicated "a pattern of sexual harassment". British newspaper The Independent has obtained a copy of the 15-page confidential report and the paper says that the report's findings will place renewed pressure on...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. watchdog revised its annual report to state that its investigation supported a sexual harassment allegation from an employee made against U.N. refugee chief Ruud Lubbers, a conclusion the secretary-general later rejected. The revised report from the Office of Internal Oversight Services, which was circulated Thursday, revealed for the first time that U.N. investigators not only supported the allegation but recommended that "appropriate actions" be taken. U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard, pressed on why Secretary-General Kofi Annan rejected the investigators' recommendation, said Annan "sought legal advice and on the basis of that advice he concluded that...