Kofi Annan
Former Secretary-General of the United NationsWikipedia
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Sep 14, 2026
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All non-emergency patients have been discharged from the hospital so they can have enough beds to take in the more seriously injured.
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We have, uh, reaction now from UN, United Nations General Secretary Kofi Annan.
Kofi AnnanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We are all traumatized by this terrible tragedy.
Kofi AnnanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We do not yet know how many people have been killed or injured, but inevitably the number will be high.
Kofi AnnanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We do not know yet who is behind these acts or what objective they hope to achieve.
Kofi AnnanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
What we do know is that no just cause can be advanced by terror.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That was UN Secretary General Kofi Annan speaking about the terrorist attacks today.
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The United Nations building is one of the buildings in New York that has been evacuated as well.
Ernest OwensHOST
I met him.
Ernest OwensHOST
His name was Kofi Annan.
Ernest OwensHOST
He's passed away.
Ernest OwensHOST
Kofi passed away, I believe.
Mary HarveyGUEST
So the Center for Sport and Human Rights, um, was launched in twenty eighteen by an incredible woman named Mary Robinson.
Mary HarveyGUEST
So she's the former president of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and now chairs The Elders, which is an organization founded by Nelson Mandela and then by Kofi Annan, um, that are former heads of state around the world, and they are involved in, um, key discussions, uh, in the world today, be it nuclear non-proliferation to environmental crisis to lots of things.
Mary HarveyGUEST
Um, but back then, Mary Robinson, um, who's been a warrior for human rights and climate justice her, her whole life, um, started asking questions of sport and saying: "When are you going to have accountability for human rights harms that are happening as the result of your activities, and specifically your, your big events?" This is in the wake of, you know, twenty fourteen-
David GassHOST
Hmm
Wagner MouraGUEST
And I think that I was always very fascinated by the fact that the U.N. was against the invasion.
Wagner MouraGUEST
And even though they had to go there to help the U.S. to rebuild Iraq, and there was only one person that Kofi Annan trusted to do that, and that was Sergio.
Wagner MouraGUEST
And Sergio was personally pretty much against the invasion.
Wagner MouraGUEST
And so I think there is the tragedy of all that, you know, to have someone, an organization that didn't want to be there, and especially his special representative that didn't want to be there, and then...
Mary HarveyGUEST
So the Center for Sport and Human Rights was launched in 2018 by an incredible woman named Mary Robinson.
Mary HarveyGUEST
So she's the former president of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and now chairs the Elders, which is an organization founded by Nelson Mandela and then by Kofi Annan that are former heads of state around the world.
Mary HarveyGUEST
And they are involved in key discussions in the world today, be it nuclear nonproliferation to environmental
David GossHOST
crisis to lots of
Penelope Brooke ThompsonGUEST
So that's where I see, I see ACTT and Penny.
RayganHOST
In one of the interviews, you mentioned that you used to see yourself, or you were thinking of yourself in terms of future Kofi Annan.
Penelope Brooke ThompsonGUEST
Mm.
RayganHOST
That's where you were, you were seeing yourself going.
speaker_8GUEST
Mandela was part of it.
speaker_8GUEST
Kofi Annan, the former Secretary General of the UN, was part of it.
speaker_8GUEST
Gratia Marshall Mandela was part of it, and they tried to force their way into Zimbabwe, and their eldest group was financed by none other than Richard Bryce and the Virgin Airlines, who wanted regime change in Zimbabwe so he could take over the tourism industry.
speaker_8GUEST
So, yeah, so that's just some background information on that.
Irwin CotlerGUEST
And not once, and not twice, but...
Irwin CotlerGUEST
So you have a total failure, and I keep re-recalling when I say this what Kofi Annan said, which is should be for us a, a, a kind of motto when he, when he said that a United Nations that does not put the combating of antisemitism at the forefront of its agenda is the United Nations that has betrayed its past and is forfeiting its future.
Irwin CotlerGUEST
So I think what we need to do is not sort of to say we'll have nothing to do with the UN.
Irwin CotlerGUEST
It's there.
Irwin CotlerGUEST
What we need to do is to be calling upon the UN and its institutions, et cetera, to ensure that they live up to their promise so that, yes, uh, it can be a centerpiece of our identity, but not when it singles out one member state for selective opprobrium.
Irwin CotlerGUEST
And then that, that becomes a betrayal, as Kofi Annan put it.
Irwin CotlerGUEST
So, uh, uh, unfortunately, a lot of the rot of Durban has just metastasized in the campus culture-
Yaakov KatzHOST
Mm
Tiernan DouiebHOST
And do check out comedyclub4kids.co.uk as well.
Tiernan DouiebHOST
And while you were all listening to that, I remembered loads more stuff like potatoes, toenails, that feeling you get when a roller coaster goes down a huge dip and you think you left your stomach somewhere behind you, dung beetles, Kofi Annan, the Taj Mahal and pickled trumpets.
Tiernan DouiebHOST
But I still can't remember what this lever does.
Tiernan DouiebHOST
You know what, listeners, I guess I'm just going to have to pull it right and then I'm sure it'll all come back to me.
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