UN GATE /
SDNY, Nov 23 - The United Nations, its
unaccountable senior leadership and
sychophantic press corps all seem pleased by
the nomination
of perceived supporters to represent the US
from January 20 on.
Witness the
canned Q&A in the UN noon briefing of
November 23, which again banned Inner City
Press - and its questions about UN corruption
and sexual abuse, Cameroon,
Honduras
and other UN failures, here.
Inner City
Press before corrupt UNSG Antonio Guterres had
it thrown
out without due process or appeal
covered not only the UN and its "Peacekeeping"
missions in Haiti and elsewhere, but also
Antony Blinken (here,
meeting Prince Zeid) and Linda
Thomas-Greenfield (here,
after a trip to Somalia; Inner City Press
covered the UN Security Council trip to
Djibouti).
So would
it be the case that Blinken and
Thomas-Greenfield would cast a blind eye at UN
censorship
and lack of
accountability, from Cameroon to the banning of
the Press that asks? Watch this site.November
23, 2020
Complicit
In Saudi Press
Murder UN
Guterres Bans
Press As State
Media
Obsequious On
G20
SDNY
COURTHOUSE, Nov 20 – The G-20
meeting by Saudi Arabia's royals, killers of
journalist like Jamal Khashhogi, is being used
by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to
promote himself, for example in a scam
November 20 press conference with state media,
video here.
After
Guterres' distribution of a redacted copy of
his pre-summit letter, this was a six question
briefing Guterres banned critical Inner City
Press from. The questions included Turkish
state media asking for praise of the Turkish
Republic of Northern Cyprus, South African
state media coyly asking for criticism of
Trump and getting only evasion (Guterres will
take money from anyone); Qatar's Al Jazeera
asking for a Qatar sound byte, useless ANSA
lobbying a softball about "COVAX" and Guterres
blathering about mis-information, meaning any
criticism of him.
Before,
these stage directions from the UN
Correspondents Association, with Xinhua and
Saudi funded media on the board:
"Dear
colleagues, The Secretary-General will
hold a press briefing tomorrow, Friday,
November 20th at 12:30 PM in the Press
Briefing Room S-237 with a limited amount of
journalists present with distancing
restrictions and the rest will continue to
participate virtually on the Webex
platform. Only a maximum of 10 UN
correspondents with 6 resident correspondents,
1 non-resident correspondents [sic], and 3
photographers can be safely accommodated.
Thank you for your attention and
cooperation. Valeria Robecco President,
United Nations Correspondents Association."
Inner City
Press on the morning of November 20 asked
Guterres, spokesman Stephane Dujarric, Melissa
Fleming and others 100+ questions including,
on this, "As to SG Guterres's November 20
press conference, (1) how it is legitimate to
outsource access to the UN Correspondents
Association, which self-servingly decided six
"resident correspondents" (some of whom
publish nothing), 1 "non resident
correspondents" [sic] and three photographers
-- does that include or not include the
publicly-paid UN Photo staff, or those who
purport to both be UN Photo and resident
correspondents? On what basis is Inner City
Press, which has questions, banned even from
posing question(s) by WebEx? How is this not
just censorship?"
"Everyone accessing UN premises in New York
confirms that they have not
had
- Any
COVID-19 symptoms in the past 14 days
- A
positive COVID-19 test in the past 14
days
- Close
contact with a confirmed or suspected COVID-19
case in the past 14 days."
What a
scam - Guterres evaded quarantine, and his
spokesman Stephane Dujarric briefs maskless
daily, give feet above Al Jazeera's Bays who
takes off his mask. The UN Censorship Alliance
- with Saudi Arabia. Inner City Press will
have more on this - watch this site.
November
16, 2020
After
UN Beer Party
Andrea Padula
Assaulted 3
Women Here Is
Transcript UN
Wants
Destroyed
UN GATE, Nov
13 – How corrupt is today's United Nations?
Even when a proceeding about the growing trend
of sexual harassment under Sec-Gen Antonio
Guterres is supposed to be public, when the
Press comes to cover it, it is denied access.
Video here.
And then
his kangaroo court demands that the Press he
excludes destroy evidence of UN sexual abuse,
or be further banned. This is today's UN.
The leaked evidence, precisely the type that
media is elsewhere celebrated for publishing
in cases like Ghislaine Maxwell (to whom the
UN is connected through Guterres' Partnerships
chief Amir Dossal), includes transcripts. Here
now, after yet another day of UN Spokesperson
Stephane Dujarric and "Verify" fraud Melissa
Fleming refusing to confirm or deny or answer
anything, is from one of the many transcript:
"I am not in a
state where I could leave the group because I
was too scared that he would follow me out of
the group, so I was staying there and seeing
where he exactly goes.... He was doing the
same thing with another UN staff, her name was
[VOLUNTARILY REDACTED BY INNER CITY PRESS], he
tried to grab her face, he tried to kiss her
and she actually pushed him away... also
[VOLUNTARILY REDACTED] of Accenture."
This
after Q&A with a male UN "investigator"
implying that is entirely normal in the UN for
a known sexual harasser to walk around with
twelve pack of beer and... other things. To be
continued. This is what Guterres is
covering up by banning the Press that covers
it, and now claiming the authority to order
the destruction of evidence leaked by
whistleblowers.
Under
Guterres, the UN has become functionally a sex
trafficking conspiracy, moving "peacekeepers"
and staff around to committed sexual abuse for
which they are shielded and protected by
Guterres, including with censorship.
On the morning of November 12 Inner City Press
in writing asked Dujarric, Fleming, Guterres
and others including Deputy Spokesman Farhan
Haq who deleted or "left" the questions on
WhatsApp, "Immediately on the Padula UNDT case
I have asked each of you about since November
3 explain on what basis the UN is now
demanding censorship of leaked evidence of UN
sexual harassment, in a UNDT order no less:
"until Mr. Lee has demonstrated to the
Tribunal that all illegal recordings have been
removed from the public domain and destroyed,
it will hold Mr. Lee in contempt of court and
prohibit him from attending any of its future
public hearings. " But Inner City Press
was banned from the UN by Antonio Guterres
before this, for reporting on UN abuses, and
its question have not been answered. This one
should be - on deadline."
Now
November 13, no answer at all. Today's UN is
full of corruption and censorship.
Now
after asking Guterres and his spokespeople
Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming to
explain - they have refused - we are
publishing the order(s), including here
that
"According to
media reports, [the United Nations] regards
Inner City Press and Mr Lee as personae non
grata, and has withdrawn Mr Lee’s media
accreditation, as a result of myriad previous
instances in which Mr Lee has breached the
Organisation’s media guidelines.[reference to
footnote omitted] These breaches reportedly
included live-streaming a UN function that was
designated as private. [reference to footnote
omitted] … Mr Lee asserts in the Twitter
thread that he was denied entry into the
virtual hearing in this case. The tweet
includes a video which shows Mr Lee, using the
moniker ‘Press-Guest’, in the hearing’s
‘lobby’, awaiting admission by Tribunal
officials, and ultimately being denied entry.
[reference to annex omitted] The Applicant and
Applicant’s counsel recall seeing an entry
request under the name of ‘Inner City Press’
during his cross-examination of [the witness].
However, neither Applicant nor his counsel
recall seeing ‘Inner City Press’ or
‘PressGuest’ among the participants in the
hearing. … The Applicant thus believes that Mr
Lee’s assertion is correct: Tribunal officials
did not admit Mr Lee or Inner City Press into
the hearing. If so, Mr Lee or Inner City Press
could only have obtained images from the
hearing, including the confidential OIOS
witness testimony, from someone who was
admitted into the hearing: either a
participant or an observer (whether a [United
Nations] staff member or member of the
public).[reference to footnote omitted] In
other words, the information was apparently
leaked."
and then, and
order that Lee is "prohibited from attending
any future public hearings of the undersigned
Judge until he has demonstrated to the
Tribunal that all illegal recordings from the
hearing on 4 November 2020 have been removed
from the public domain and destroyed."
Inner
City Press has asked Dujarric, Amina J.
Mohammed and Fleming how the UN of Guterres
can purport to order the destruction of
whistleblower evidence of sexual abuse in the
UN. No answer.
But Inner City
Press was banned from the UN by Antonio
Guterres before this, so that Guterres could
conceal child rapes by UN peacekeepers and
drugging and raping by such staff members as
Karim Elkonany, who he never disciplined.
In this
case, Inner City Press every weekday since
November 3 has put written questions about the
case to UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric,
Melissa Fleming and others - with no answer at
all. We are now asking about these orders.
We'll
have more on this, including publishing the
UNDT's absurd orders and more. Note that Inner
City Press knows full well how to comply with
rules in legal reporting - but any tribunal
that bans the Press, then demands censorship
of material leaked by whistleblowers, deserve
more not less coverage.
On
November 3 Inner City Press arrived online to
cover a sexual harassment proceeding in the UN
Dispute Tribunal. But despite the promise of
openness, it was blocked. Still, from
exhibits, this
live tweeted thread:
This UN staff
member Mr. Andrea Padula allegedly "a.
“grabbed [Ms. VC’s] face, leaned forward and
attempted to kiss her”; b. “when [Ms. VC]
resisted [him] kissing her, [he] forced [Ms.
VC’s] down and kissed her c. “grabbed [Ms.
MV], held her closely, and attempted to kiss
her”
Those on
this UN cover-up call, blocking the Press from
an ostensibly public UN sexual harassment
hearing, include Morten Michelsen, Omar Josef
Shehabi, but ultimately the rape-cover-up-man
in chief, @AntonioGuterres . He has
corrupted the entire Organization
In the
supposedly public UN "legal" proceeding that
Inner City Press was just denied access to,
here is an exhibit being presented - a UN
cubicle, with a Patricia Dann sign on it and
an apparently inflatable kangaroo. More
exhibits from Big Tony Gutters' Animal House
UN, presented in ostensibly public legal
proceeding that Inner City Press was blocked
from - note "Dance floor" - including the UN -
and party boys / dirty old men.
This one
of @AntonioGuterres ' party boys is
named Mr. Andrea Padula (in Iraq, Guterres'
Karim Elkorany went further, into drugging and
raping a UN contractors) - but here, note the
involvement of "Mariuska of Accenture."
Update - the
United Nations under
@AntonioGuterres is spending the
public's money to hold sexual harassment
dances (and fly rapists like Elkorany in and
out of Iraq) - but when the Media tries to
cover a public proceeding, access denied.
#ImpeachGuterres 202 views 0:00 / 0:27
Turns out
this @AntonioGuterres party boy
Padula "was doing the same thing with another UN
staff, her name was Verouschka.... he
tried to grab her" - note that the three UNTSO
#sexploiters are *still* being paid by the
public, despite Guterres' lies
November
9, 2020
UN
Women Staff
Sent Porn
While UN Beer
Party Staffer
Padula No
Answer From
Guterres
UN GATE, Nov 6
– How corrupt is today's United Nations? Even
when a proceeding about the growing trend of
sexual harassment under Sec-Gen Antonio
Guterres is supposed to be public, when the
Press comes to cover it, it is denied access.
Video here.
From November 3 to November 6 Inner City Press
each day asked Guterres and his spokespeople
Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming to
explain this, and to state what happened in
and was done about the case, below. No
answers.
Now
Inner City Press can report on another UN
Dispute Tribunal case, in which Karkara, "a
former Senior Advisor at the United Nations
Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment
of Women (“UN Women”) in New York, at the P-5
level, contests the decision to dismiss him
for serious misconduct. UN Women found that
the Applicant (a) sexually harassed, exploited
and abused two non-UN personnel; (b) committed
harassment and abuse of authority against an
intern with the United Nations; and (c)
misused the United Nations Information
Communication and Technology (“ICT”) resources
to obtain and distribute pornography to and
from his UN Women email account. 2. The
Applicant submits that the facts on which the
disciplinary measure was based are not
established by clear and convincing evidence.
The Applicant argues that the victims’
testimonies are not credible and that their
allegations were fabricated with the
assistance of several individuals who had
serious disputes with him. The Applicant also
submits that the investigation was biased and
ignored exculpatory evidence and several
witnesses breached the confidentiality
requirement by speaking to the media, thereby
undermining the integrity of the
investigation. 3. The Respondent submits that
based on the credible oral testimony of
victims, which are further corroborated by
other witnesses’ testimony and text messages
and the Global Positioning System (“GPS”)
records, the facts on which the disciplinary
measure was based are established by clear and
convincing evidence. 4. A hearing was held
before the Tribunal on 20-22 July 2020 at
which nine witnesses and the Applicant gave
testimony. 5. For the reasons below, the
Tribunal finds that the facts are established
by clear and convincing evidence, that they
amount to serious misconduct, and that the
imposed sanction was proportionate to the
offense."
Guterres' UN
is corrupt and he is covering it up with
censorship. Sources who contacted Inner City
Press about what they call expanding sleaze in
the UN blamed its spread on "dirty old man" SG
Guterres, as one called him. Inner City Press
has put the decision online on its
DocumentCloud, here.
Is this acceptable? Why no answer? Why the
cover up?
On
November 3 Inner City Press arrived online to
cover a sexual harassment proceeding in the UN
Dispute Tribunal. But despite the promise of
openness, it was blocked. Still, from
exhibits, this
live tweeted thread:
This UN staff
member Mr. Andrea Padula allegedly "a.
“grabbed [Ms. VC’s] face, leaned forward and
attempted to kiss her”; b. “when [Ms. VC]
resisted [him] kissing her, [he] forced [Ms.
VC’s] down and kissed her c. “grabbed [Ms.
MV], held her closely, and attempted to kiss
her”
Those on
this UN cover-up call, blocking the Press from
an ostensibly public UN sexual harassment
hearing, include Morten Michelsen, Omar Josef
Shehabi, but ultimately the rape-cover-up-man
in chief, @AntonioGuterres . He has
corrupted the entire Organization
In the
supposedly public UN "legal" proceeding that
Inner City Press was just denied access to,
here is an exhibit being presented - a UN
cubicle, with a Patricia Dann sign on it and
an apparently inflatable kangaroo. More
exhibits from Big Tony Gutters' Animal House
UN, presented in ostensibly public legal
proceeding that Inner City Press was blocked
from - note "Dance floor" - including the UN -
and party boys / dirty old men.
This one
of @AntonioGuterres ' party boys is
named Mr. Andrea Padula (in Iraq, Guterres'
Karim Elkorany went further, into drugging and
raping a UN contractors) - but here, note the
involvement of "Mariuska of Accenture."
Update - the
United Nations under
@AntonioGuterres is spending the
public's money to hold sexual harassment
dances (and fly rapists like Elkorany in and
out of Iraq) - but when the Media tries to
cover a public proceeding, access denied.
#ImpeachGuterres 202 views 0:00 / 0:27
Turns out
this @AntonioGuterres party boy
Padula "was doing the same thing with another UN
staff, her name was Verouschka.... he
tried to grab her" - note that the three UNTSO
#sexploiters are *still* being paid by the
public, despite Guterres' lies
November
2, 2020
UN
Warns US Staff
Of Nov 3
Election
Protests As
Guterres
Favors Biden
Over Trump on
Zoom
UN GATE, Oct
30 – The UN is warning its US staff to
watching out on and after US election day.
Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary General who
rarely takes questions and even had the Press
which asked him about his links to the
convicted UN briber CEFC China Energy thrown
out of the UN, rolled up in three large SUV
vehicles to the publicly-funded mansion he
usually lives alone in, just before the
COVID-19 pandemic spread in March Video here,
& YouTube
and Facebook.
Now on
October 30 from the UN -
which bans Inner City
Press but which gets
extensive leaks -
this: "SECURITY
BROADCAST New York
Fri 10/30/2020 12:00
PM
To:
Broadcast - UNHQ NY
Secretariat;
Broadcast -
Agencies, Funds and
Programmes The
Security and Safety
Service hereby
reminds that the
outcome of the
upcoming host
country elections
could spark both
celebrations and
spontaneous
demonstrations.
UNDSS is in contact
with our law
enforcement
counterparts in
monitoring the
situation where our
personnel are
located and will
provide updates and
advice, via security
email broadcasts, as
appropriate.
In these uncertain
times with COVID-19
and the possibility
of civil unrest, UN
staff and non-staff
personnel are
encouraged for their
own safety to avoid
crowds in
general.
Should UN staff and
non-staff personnel
encounter a protest,
it is recommended
that they follow the
general safety
advice
below:
•
Remain calm and
carefully navigate
to the edge of the
crowd or where it is
safest.
•
When possible, move
away and seek refuge
in a nearby
building, or doorway
until the crowd
passes.
•
When leaving the
protest area – walk
briskly and avoid
running.
•
If you are driving,
DO NOT stop your
vehicle in the area
of the protest. Keep
windows and doors
locked.
•
Drive carefully
through or around
the crowd at a low
speed and do not
honk your
horn.
•
Follow the
instructions from
local
authorities.
•
For emergencies,
contact local
authorities at
911.
Do keep abreast of
developments in your
area by tuning into
the live media
reports which are
providing real time
information."
On October 19 Guterres
bragged that he will
travel in two weeks to
Massachusetts
to meet his
semi-estranged
wife who lives in
Portugal, a
country from which
quarantine would be
required
in New York. This
is open
evasion of
quarantine
rules - or not
open, since it
was said in a
meeting
several disgusted participants
invited
Inner City
Press to
observe.
Perhaps most
significantly,
Guterres in the
meeting expressed
open preference in
the current US
president election
saying that if
one side wins,
"Net Zero
Emissions" can
be advance,
and if the
other (Trump)
wins, Guterres
and the UN
will rely on
bankers like
JPMorgan
Chase.
Guterres
also
spoke about
social media
platforms -
not the
censorship of
investigative
articles but the
need to
censors more,
citing
what he called
"Social
Dilemna" a
show he says
he is watching
on Netflix. We
will have more
on this.
Normally,
one could ask
Guterres'
spokespeople to
explain. But
they refuse to
answer
questions, even
for
clarification
of Spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric reference to
two, and
not one,
trips. They
are corrupt.
After
his return and
faux quarantine
for ten days,
including
maskless men
going in and
out of his
mansion, on
August 19 Guterres'
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric said
that US
Secretary of
State would
be meeting
directly
with Guterres
in the mansion
on August 20 at 2 pm, see
below.
Meanwhile
Guterres ordered UN headquarters
staff to
return to New
York by
September 15 -
or two weeks
before, so
that they
(unlike him)
can
quarantine.
See video
leaked to
Inner City
Press, here,
including on
that Guterres'
contempt
for the public
is spreading.
On August 20 Inner
City Press, though
also covering
the indictment
and arraignment
of Steve
Bannon in the
SDNY
courthouse it
covers,
rushed uptown to
see if this
blatant violation
of quarantine
by Guterres
would take place.
It did:
streaming
Periscope
video here; now
on YouTube here.
There
were many UN
staff and
security, a
waste of
public money occasioned
only by
Guterres'
selfishness
and arrogance.
October
26, 2020
On UN
Day Failing
Guterres
Invites
Killers Like
Lankan
Rajapaksa As
Hides Rapes
Bans Press
UN GATE, Oct
23 -- Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary
General who rarely takes questions as he
undermines what's left of the UN's credibility
and even had the Press which asked him about
his links to the convicted UN briber CEFC
China Energy thrown out of the UN, rolled up
in three large SUV vehicles to the
publicly-funded mansion he usually lives alone
in, just before the COVID-19 pandemic spread
in March Video here,
& YouTube
and Facebook.
Now on October 23 - UN Day -
Guterres has bragged
to staff that "our
global survey to mark
this anniversary
confirmed that the
people of the world
continue to put their
trust in us to prevent
conflict, promote
human rights, advance
justice, protect our
planet and uphold the
equality of women and
men." This
as he daily covers
up rapes by UN
peacekeepers
and bans the Press
which asks, as he
fails on Cameroon
and the
UN has on other
conflicts
like in Sri Lanka
and as even
the Mayor of
New York won't
meet with UN
officials
like the PGA.
For UN
Day, as
simple one
example, the UN
invited
a speech by
Sri Lanka's
Mahinda Rajapaksa,
responsible
for the
Bloodbath on
the Beach, which
the UN supposedly
learned from.
The UN75 event
is led by a
sexual harasser
on the 38th
floor, as
Guterres
covers up for
UN staffer
Elkorany who drugged
and rapes women
in Iraq and
refuses to
answer why his
own head of
Partnerships
Amir Dossal
was on the
board of sex
trafficker
Ghislaine
Maxwell's
Terramar.
Back on October
19 in a
session exposed by
Inner City
Press - after
an invite by a
disgusted Ambassador
-- Guterres
bragged
that he will travel in
two weeks to Massachusetts
to meet his
semi-estranged
wife who lives in
Portugal, a
country from which
quarantine would be
required
in New York. This
is open
evasion of
quarantine
rules - or not
open, since it
was said in a
meeting
several disgusted participants
invited
Inner City
Press to
observe.
Inner City
Press asked UN
Spokespeople
Stephane
Dujarric and
Melissa Fleming:
"Immediately
confirm what
SG Guterres
said this
morning, that
he plans to
travel to
Massachusetts
in two weeks
and meet his
wife coming in
from Portugal
and explain
how his is not
evasion of
applicable
quantantine
rules."
Hours later,
no answer
at all. (Contrary
to, for example, IMF
answers to
Inner City
Press here.)
Perhaps most
significantly,
Guterres in the
meeting expressed
open preference in
the current US
president election
saying that if
one side wins,
"Net Zero
Emissions" can
be advance,
and if the
other (Trump)
wins, Guterres
and the UN
will rely on
bankers like
JPMorgan
Chase.
Guterres
also
spoke about
social media
platforms -
not the
censorship of
investigative
articles but the
need to
censors more,
citing
what he called
"Social
Dilemna" a
show he says
he is watching
on Netflix. We
will have more
on this.
Normally,
one could ask
Guterres'
spokespeople to
explain. But
they refuse to
answer
questions, even
for
clarification
of Spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric reference to
two, and
not one,
trips. They
are corrupt.
After
his return and
faux quarantine
for ten days,
including
maskless men
going in and
out of his
mansion, on
August 19 Guterres'
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric said
that US
Secretary of
State would
be meeting
directly
with Guterres
in the mansion
on August 20 at 2 pm, see
below.
Meanwhile
Guterres ordered UN headquarters
staff to
return to New
York by
September 15 -
or two weeks
before, so
that they
(unlike him)
can
quarantine.
See video
leaked to
Inner City
Press, here,
including on
that Guterres'
contempt
for the public
is spreading.
On August 20 Inner
City Press, though
also covering
the indictment
and arraignment
of Steve
Bannon in the
SDNY
courthouse it
covers,
rushed uptown to
see if this
blatant violation
of quarantine
by Guterres
would take place.
It did:
streaming
Periscope
video here; now
on YouTube here.
There
were many UN
staff and
security, a
waste of
public money occasioned
only by
Guterres'
selfishness
and arrogance.
October
19, 2020
At UN
Ivory Coast
Majority
Against
Outtara No
Answer From
Guterres So
Q&A With
Bamba
UN GATE / SDNY
COURT, Oct 15 – A fight is brewing in the
corrupt UN of Antonio Guterres, and current UN
Security Council President Russia.
It involved
Ivory Coast or Cote d'Ivoire, where
octogenarian ruler Ouattara seeks another
term.
Former
Cote d'Ivoire ambassador Bamba called Inner
City Press on October 3 and expressed
frustration at the UN Security Council. France
will support whoever wins and gives it money.
Tunisia is in chaos.
Inner
City Press informed the seasoned diplomatic
who colonial Guterres was willing to support
another octogenarian FrancAfrique asset Paul
Biya in Cameroon. "Keep up the fight," he
said.
Inner
City Press has in writing asked Guterres, his
spokesman Stephane Dujarric and Deputy Amina
J. Mohammed, chief of staff Maria Luisa Viotti
and chief censor Melissa Fleming: "On Cote
d'Ivoire, what are the comments and actions if
any of SG Guterres on events and upcoming
election in the country - has the Secretariat
heard from former Ambassador Bamba, now in
NYC? and this: A delegation of African and UN
envoys on Wednesday expressed "deep concern"
ahead of Ivory Coast's tense presidential
election this month as it wrapped up a visit
to the capital Abidjan. Envoys from the West
African regional bloc ECOWAS, the African
Union and the United Nations met with
government officials, the opposition and civil
society as calls grow for a postponement of
the West African country's October 31 vote."
As of
this writing on October 15, no answer.
On October 15 Inner City Press, invited to the
press conference, asked Ambassador Bamba and
Herman J. Cohen about the response of the UN.
Ambassador Bamba said Cote d'Ivoire has been a
failure of the UN, failure to monitor. No
follow through the DDR, nor SSR. Cohen
suggested the AU could be trusted more.
Inner City
Press says Guterres has gutted the UN, siding
with octogenarian dictators like Paul Biya in
Cameroon. Inner City Press asked a follow up
question about France, whose interference in
Cote d'Ivoire Inner City Press has long
reported on.
Inner City Press
will have more on this. Watch this site.
October
12, 2020
Antonio
Guterres
Botched UN
Racism Study
Over 50% Has
Examples
Requiring His
Ouster
UN GATE / SDNY
COURT, Oct 9 – While it took Antonio
Guterres' tweet about patriachy to push the
calls for him to resign into new audiences,
many of whom had not even been aware who the
UN Secretary General was, it is the hypocrisy
that should ensure his needed departure.
This hypocrisy
and incompetence, shielded by censorship of
Press, extends to matters of race as well.
Today
Inner City Press exclusively publishes
findings from the UN racism (UNPAD) survey
leaked to it. Over 50% of those surveyed (52%)
have experience racism. And here are some
examples from the report - Guterres must go --
I have heard
colleagues being referred to as monkeys on
occasion. • Once a colleague referred to
Africans as still living in trees. • I was
harassed by my own staff and encouraged by my
manager to resign without a proper process. •
I found a way to test the racism in my
organization by drafting something and asking
my European junior to send it – it received
praise whereas when I would submit my work
myself, I would face negative comments. • A
white colleague once asked me “Can you speak
English” while mocking my accent.
Many Black
colleagues are sent to particularly difficult
duty stations – in the deep field as
retaliation. • I was told to hand over my
duties to a junior White colleague and
redeployed to a remote field location. •
Blacks receive the most severe punishment. • I
witnessed a woman of colour get punished and
kicked out ruthlessly for reporting bad
procurement practices. • I was transferred to
a remote area as punishment because of my
race. • The feeling of everyone in the office
is that the Westerner has benefitted from
senior management’s indulgence and given a
second chance while the African has been
punished harshly for the same thing. • I face
retaliation for reporting wrongdoing – abuse
of power and mismanagement of resources. •
There is retaliation if you stand up for
yourself by damaging your reputation and
blacklisting you. • I have been threatened
with job termination and retaliated against
when I challenged decisions that put me in a
compromising position in relation to my
professional integrity
It’s very hard
to see Africans appointed at HQ level. • Under
qualified White candidates are often given
jobs over qualified Black ones. • The most
important decisions such as the recruitment of
an international staff are based on racial
criteria. • When a recent recruitment exercise
resulted in only Whites being selected, I was
told it was because there were no qualified
black people
A white
colleague refused to report to a Black
Supervisor. • The white staff in my office did
not accept my leadership and would
systematically undermine me. • Whites at a
lower grade do not accept Black supervisors
(P3/P4 level) and prefer to report to more
senior supervisors who tend to be White. • As
a team leader, I get described as aggressive
and abrasive if I put my foot down. •
Gaslighting and general disrespect to local
staff
The UN proudlyquoted
Guterres, on Twitter,
"The #COVID19 pandemic is demonstrating what
we all know: millennia of patriarchy have
resulted in a male-dominated world with a
male-dominated culture which damages everyone
– women, men, girls & boys."
But
this is the same Guterres who in June when
Inner City Press, which Guterres has banned
from the UN for 798 days and counting,
published a video
of UN staff in Tel Aviv having groups sex with
a prostitute in a UN van, refused to answer
about.
Then
Guterres lied that the driver Juan Carlos
Cunillera has been put on leave without pay,
even when that wasn't true: he is being
paid.
During
this time, Inner City Press published
Guterres' racial survey. It was retracted, but
it now being relaunched under the very
official who was in charge of the first
fiasco, Catherine Pollard (who laughed
heartily as Guterres guards pushed Inner City
Press out in June 2018). Here it is:
Subject: SG
letter to Staff Members on
Task Force on Addressing
Racism and Promoting Dignity
for All in the United
Nations Sent:
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Dear
Colleagues, I write to inform you
that I have established a Task Force on
Addressing Racism and Promoting Dignity for
All in the United Nations for one year. This
is a continuation of my efforts to strengthen
my campaign of dialogue and action on
eradicating this scourge from the
Organization. The Task Force is
mandated with identifying the extent of
personal, interpersonal, structural and
institutional racism in the Organization and
its impact on mandate delivery. On this basis,
the Task Force is required to devise a
long-term Strategic Action Plan for my
consideration on how to end racism and racial
discrimination in the United Nations, propose
measures to promote diversity and inclusion
and on how to develop policies and tools to
create a safe environment in which racism can
be reported and addressed promptly without
fear of reprisal. The Task Force
will be chaired by the Under-Secretary-General
for Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance
and will comprise a diverse group of senior
level staff and a staff representative from
the Staff-Management Committee. During the
execution of its mandate, the Task Force will
also engage with other key stakeholders and
experts on racism and racial
discrimination. Based on the
legitimate concerns raised by staff on the
content of the recent Survey on Racism, I
requested its suspension to allow for
necessary revisions in order to address the
issues raised by staff. On this note, the Task
Force is also mandated with directing and
overseeing the Survey process prior to its
relaunch. As we move forward in
earnest to address the issue of racism and
racial discrimination in the Organization, I
would like to take this opportunity to urge
you to continue to hold deeper and honest
dialogues on the issue of race and ethnicity,
deliberately and harmoniously, and with great
sensitivity and awareness. Since
assuming office, I have placed the issue of
diversity and inclusion at the heart of my
reform agenda. As we make progress in
addressing gender equality and geographic
representation in the Organization, I count on
you all once again to give the same zeal to my
efforts of ensuring a United Nations where
every race, colour, gender, religion, creed or
sexual orientation finds a sense of belonging
and safety and is granted an equal opportunity
to participate in the activities of the
Organization at all levels. Yours
sincerely, António Guterres."
Fraud.
Last
week another UN staffer, Karim Elkorany, was
arrested and arraigned in the U.S. Court for
the Southern District of New York for drugging
and raping
women in Iraq where he was a UN communications
strategist.
Guterres has refused to answer Inner City
Press' written questions about why, once the
UN was informed Elkorany's drugging and
raping, he was allowed to simply leave Iraq
and set up shop in New Jersey.
This
same "repatriation" is the only punishment
Guterres mete out to UN Peacekeepers accused
of raping children, most but not all of these
girls and some as young as five, in the DR
Congo and Central African Republic and Haiti.
Then, unlike
even his predecessor Ban Ki-moon, Guterres
through his spokesman Stephane Dujarric refuses
to provide basic if-asked information about
the cases. Inner City Press has also
published leaked audio about Guterres ordering
the end of a probe of sexual harassment by one
of his cronies, audio here.
Also in
the SDNY is the higher profile sex trafficking
case of Ghislaine Maxwell, on whose Terramar
Project board of directors Guterres' head of
"UN Partnerships" Amir Dossal was one of only
five members. Guterres has refused to answer
or act on this as well.
So alongside his talk of patriarchy, Antonio
Guterres sits atop what could be described as
an international sex trafficking conspiracy,
misusing the UN's and his own legal immunity
and having roughed up and banning the Press
which asks about it.
The UN
being the UN, with full impunity, will probably
double down and have propagandist Melissa
Fleming, funded by IKEA and Pierre Omidyar,
claim that Guterres being under fire for saying
patriarch makes him a hero. But he is a
hypocrite.
October
5, 2020
As Law
Professors and
OSI Sue Trump
For ICC Free
Speech They
Ignore UN
Press
Censorship
UN GATE / SDNY
COURT, Oct 3 – A group of law
professors, represented by a Washington
lobbyist firm, has sued on the theory that
their First Amendment rights to support the
UN-affiliated International Criminal Court
have been impaired. Fine.
Interesting.
But the
parties should be aware: the UN is no friend
of free speech.
Under
current Secretary General Antonio Guterres,
the UN roughed up and has banned Inner City
Press 823 days now, for its questions about
Guterres' failures on Cameroon
(a France-supported mass killing event not
taken up by the ICC) and his undisclosed links
to convicted UN bribers at CEFC China Energy.
Video
here, background here.
Guterres'
spokesman Stephane Dujarric - a US as well as
French citizen - helped organize the rough up
then initially promised on
camera to at least answer Inner City
Press' request questions, here. He has since
stopped, and said
"Mr. Lee's status remains unchanged."
With
that unacted on, and Guterres' head of media
accreditation Melissa Fleming - a US citizen -
denying
Inner City Press' application for
re-accreditation last months without even
giving a reason, the ICC / Trump complaint
says:
“The executive
order and the regulations impermissibly
restrict plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights to
freedom of speech by prohibiting them from
providing the speech-based services and
assistance described above, including with
respect to ICC investigations and prosecutions
that the United States supports. The executive
order and the regulations also lack the
clarity required by the Fifth Amendment as to
which acts subject a person to enforcement or
designation, or which persons they
cover.” Yeah.
The
plaintiffs' lawyers are Shrutih
Ramlochan-Tewarie and Nicholas Marcus Renzler
of Foley Hoag LLP. The plaintiffs are The Open
Society Justice Initiative, Diane Marie Amann,
Milena Sterio, Margaret deGuzman and Gabor
Rona. Are these professors,
and Foley Hoag, really for free speech with
regards to the UN and ICC? So far, it seems
not.
Their case is
Open Society Justice Initiative et al v. Trump
et al, 1:20-cv-08121 (Failla)
September
28, 2020
UN of
Guterres
Blocks From UN
Website IP of
Inner City
Press After
UNCA Says Do
Not Leak
UN GATE, Sept
24 – While the United Nations speaks about
press freedom and the upcoming UN General
Assembly week under new President Zolkan
Bozkir of Turkey, UN Secretary General Antonio
Guterres has banned
Inner City Press amid its questions about his
finances and failures on Cameroon and in
combatting or even just disclosing UN sexual
abuse.
Complicit in
all this is the UN Correspondents Association.
On
September 17, Guterres' spokesman Staphane
Dujarric was publicly asked about Guterres'
ban on Inner City Press, and said "Mr. Lee's
status remains uncharged. Video here.
But
then something changed. On September 19 and
still as of this writing on September 20, the
IP address Inner City Press uses was blocked
from the UN's website. Video here.
The UN sites worked when checked from
another's laptop. So can the UN use public
money to block Internet access to their
"transparency" page by media which ask and
criticize them about it?
Certainly the UN Censorship Alliance / UNCA
will not try to stop the UN's descent under
Guterres.
On September 23, the UNCA Executive Committee
of Reuters, France 24, Xinhua, AFP and others
-- list of those most responsible for this
censorship of Press here
-- issued this, forwarded to Inner City Press
by several of their disgusted members: "Dear
colleagues, The UNCA Executive
Committee deplores the situation that
transpired in reference to the email from U.N.
spokesman Stephane Dujarric on the background
briefing by Assistant Secretary-General Volker
Turk on the Secretary-General’s upcoming
speeches that was sent last
Friday. This behavior directly
compromises the work of colleagues who respect
and abide by the code of conduct outlined in
the media guidelines when receiving
accreditation as a United Nations
Correspondent and will inevitably affect
access to such briefings for all of us moving
forward. We strongly advise that
all colleagues reporting at the United Nations
continue to conduct themselves in a
professional manner and adhere to the ethical
standards and the code of conduct as
expected. Thank you for your
attention and cooperation. On
behalf of the UNCA Executive
Committee, Valeria Robecco
President, United Nations Correspondents
Association."
[Note: This
seems to obliquely refer to this
video
Let's
review: first this UN Censorship Alliance
tried to suck up to Guterres by supporting the
ouster of independent Press. Then when some of
their members, as they should, leaked - UNCA
supported blocking Press access to the UN's
websites. This organization is a travesty.
Also: Inner
City Press deals with and respects embargoes
all the time - at the IMF, State Department,
in the courts. But even organizations with
lame representatives on the UNCA board agree,
when one is not party to an embargo agreement,
one is not bound. UNCA has supported ouster of
media that actually covers the UN, in favor of
retirees and state media. UNCA is anti-press,
anti press freedom.
On September
20, as Guterres' UN blocks Inner City Press
not only on Twitter but from its publicly
funded websites, a strange message
from UNCA bigwig Ali Barada of whom we've
previously reported " Ali Barada of
An-Nahar, filed a complaint against
Inner City Press with the "Special
Investigations Unit" of the UN Department of
Safety and Security. The
only basis? What Inner City Press said when
Barada bragged that he immediately deleted
without opening Inner City Press' email
requesting to see the "information available
on request" listed in the report Barada signed
off on - and which was then sent anonymously
to the government against Inner City
Press. In fact, while all
Inner City Press responded with was a run of
the mill host country insult, Barada cited his
involvement with a "terrorist" group, as a
reason Inner City Press shouldn't express its
opinion. Update: And on Friday, July 6,
Inner City Press had to spend two and a half
hours with UN Security responding to Barada's
frivolous and pretextual complaint."
There's been more since - watch this
site.
Watch this
site.
Brenden Varma,
for PGA Bozkir, has refused to answer Inner
City Press' questions about his backsliding on
the one reform from the UN corruption scandal
Inner City Press reported on, often
exclusively, about PGAs Ashe and Kutesa;
Bozkir has an empty
"Ethics" page.
Varma then
blocked Inner City Press on Twitter. This is
today's UN - we'll have more on this issue.
Inner City Press should be given the codes to access
and ask questions at briefings immediately, like
the state media and retirees Guterres and
Melissa Fleming prefer and favor.
September
21, 2020
UN
General
Assembly of 4
Day Old
Speeches For
100 Tired
State Media
But No Inner
City Press
In Other
Media e.g. Somalia,
Ghana,
Azerbaijan,
The
Gambia
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