Yet the month just ended created what passes for an enthusiastic buzz in UN headquarters.It drew attention to some of Africa's most pressing problems: AIDS, refugees and displaced people, and the wars in Burundi, Angola, Sierra Leone and Congo.
But Mr. García, now 26 and living, legally, in New York, plans to attend a so-called shadow summit meeting down the street from the United Nations headquarters to draw attention to what he considers the refugee crisis on America's doorstep.
PARIS — Not so long ago, when employees at the Banque de France's headquarters needed medical attention, all they had to do was cross the Rue de Valois and climb the stairs of the Palais-Royal to visit the bank's doctor.
In one segment, the Food and Drug Administration, represented by an exhausted and concerned-looking official at a lectern, stages an urgent Class I product recall of "piping hot" potpies and asks that they be delivered to the F.D.A. headquarters — to the attention of the F.D.A. panel conference room.
Also in December, a number of blind users protested in front of the company's headquarters to bring attention to the Kindle's lack of features for visually impaired users.
On Thursday, Fahd Ahmed, an immigrant rights advocate who helped coordinate the strikes, planned to rally outside Hillary Clinton's New York City campaign headquarters to draw attention the effort and try to win support for it.
He was heading back to England, after attending a summit about antigay bias in sports at the Nike headquarters in Portland, Ore ."Any attention is nice.
CORAL GABLES, Fla .— Now that the Obama and Romney campaigns have closed their headquarters in Chicago and Boston, the attention of the political world is shifting to an office suite tucked behind the colonnades of the Biltmore Hotel complex here.
"We would turn to each other and say, 'Headquarters isn't paying attention.' " Despite the impediments — tight budgets were another — Mr. Oynes won what felt to him like significant victories.
Publicity about Palmetto's decision apparently attracted some attention from Medicare headquarters and the notice has now been removed from the Web site.
