** With an eye on South Korea's presidency, Ban Ki-moon seeks to burnish UN legacy
With an eye on South Korea's presidency, Ban Ki-moon seeks to burnish UN legacy On Jan. 15, 2016, Australian lawyer Philip Alston paid a visit to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on his 38th-floor office at U.N. headquarters. Alston, the U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, was preparing a report that would castigate the United Nations for skirting re..