At
UN, Nikki Haley Cites
Trafficking to Persian Gulf, ICP
Asks UN of Flow from Burundi,
UNanswered
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
March 15 – When the UN
Security Council debated
"Trafficking in persons in
conflict situations, forced
labor, slavery and other
similar practices" on March
15, US Ambassador Nikki Haley
cited people forced to make
bricks in Peru, to fix fishing
nets in Ghana, on fishing boats
off Thailand and as domestic
workers in the Persian Gulf.
Inner City Press previously
asked the UN about the flow of
such workers, underage, from
Burundi - still without
answer. This should change.
Haley also cited a proposal by
US Senator Bob Corker, including
to raise private funds to combat
trafficking. Corker has called
for reforms at the UN,
few of which are yet to be
implemented. This too should
change.
On US
inauguration day on January 20
at the US Mission to the UN
the photos of Obama, Biden,
Kerry and Samantha Power came
down. As of February 17 they
have not been replaced.
But as elsewhere an
"Alt USUN" Twitter account
continues in a parallel online
universe the views of Power, recently
calling out Nikki Haley for
only attending three of 13 UN
Security Council meetings, on
Ukraine, ISIS and Israel -
Palestine.
Fair
enough. But how many meetings
did Samantha Power attend? And
after the Israel - Palestine
meeting Nikki Haley took questions
at the Security Council
stakeout, not pre-screened by
Power's spokesman Kurtis
Cooper.
Now the
account is opposing any US
budget cuts to the UN, and
retweeting critiques of Rex Tillerson
hand picking media to
accompany his trip to Asia.
Did they say anything when UN
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
took no press, or when Antonio
Guterres handpicked Al Jazeera
to accompany him to Somalia?
In fact,
Isobel Coleman who did nothing
when the DC-based
whistleblower protection group
Government Accountability
Project wrote to her about the
UN's eviction of the
investigative Press, here,
still as of February 17 lists
herself as the US
representative on UN reform.
Is it true?
In
the UN itself, Obama and
Hillary Clinton nominee
Jeffrey Feltman has gotten his
UN contract extended. Inner
City Press first
reported, from multiple
sources, that Feltman sought
this so that his UN pension
would hit the five year
vesting dateline. The UN's
holdover spokesman Stephane
Dujarric called Inner City
Press' question, and by
implication Inner City Press,
"despicable."
Or is that, deplorable?
Meanwhile
Voice of America, which was
shown under the US Freedom of
Information Act to have asked
the UN to throw out the
investigative Press, has now
asked about Jared Kushner
(video via
here) and asked the UK
about Nikki Haley's
inexperience. Like we said, an
alternative universe.
Other
former State Department
officials like Bathsheba
Crocker wring their hands
about changes in foreign
policy. But what did they do,
when the UN killed 10,000 plus
people in Haiti with cholera?
They had their time to try to
improve the UN, and largely
failed. It's time to #MoveOn.
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