| On UN Sex
Abuse in Mali Inner City Press Asked UN
After 2 Weeks MINUSMA Answers
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, Dec 1 –
In June 2021 the United
Nations published a single
line of data about a case of
sexual abuse by its personnel
or contractors in Mali,
without any indication of what
was done for the victim or to
the perpetrator.
Inner City
Press, as it does, asked UN
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres and his spokespeople
Stephane Dujarric, Melissa
Fleming and others to provide
the further information that
even under previous UNSG Ban
Ki-moon was provided.
There was
no answer, including to a
polite letter to Fleming from
the law firm of Quinn
Emanuel, asking how
Inner City Press can end the
retaliatory UN ban on it and
enter the UN briefing room to
ask this and other questions.
Video here.
On
November 18, having received a
Zoom invite to attend the
press briefing of the UN
mission in Mali MINUSMA, Inner
City Press Zoomed in and
asked, first in the chat and
then live, for
"a status report
on the case of UN sexual abuse
put on the UN's website in
June 2021 - what has been done
for the victim? What justice
has been meted
out?"
MINUSMA's
spokesperson Myriam Dessables
to her credit, and unlike
Dujarric and others he and
Fleming have been able to
reach and have ordered to
censor, allowed Inner City
Press to ask. Video here.
She said she will
revert with more information,
after first inaccurately -
perhaps unknowingly - claiming
that the UN website has all
the information. It has only a
single line.
So Inner
City Press immediately, as
UN/MINUSMA spokesperson
Dessables' request, emailed
this question to her and
Dujarric and Marcia Soares
Pinto, Amina J. Mohammed,
Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, Tal
Mekel, Eri Kaneko, Achim
Steiner, Farhan Haq, Florencia
Soto Nino-Martinez, Fabrizio
Hochschild, Daniela Gross and
spokesperson Stephanie
Tremblay:
"At today's
MINUMSA breifing I asked you
for a status report on the
case of UN sexual abuse put on
the UN's website in June 2021
- what has been done for the
victim? What justice has been
meted out? You said it is on
the UN website in all
transparency - but there is
only one line:
"unspecified... 2021."
Please email me
all if-asked information as
the UN used to provide under
Ban Ki-moon - what was done
for the victim, what has been
done with the peacekeeper,
etc. Thank you in advance -
including for your answers on
the two military incidents in
Mali I asked about."
The
military incident including
one of Estonian troop in Mali
mistaking UK troops, described
as working with MINUMSA, as
enemies. Ms. Dessables said
she had looked it and the UK
troops are with the French
"BARKHANE" or another mission,
not the UN.
And so we
published that, and stated
that we would publish the
answer - or non answer - to
the UN sex abuse questions we
have posed to Guterres and
spokespeople, who continue to
Ban Inner City Press.
Now two weeks
later, with no answer at all
from UN Headquarters,
including on the now ongoing
sex trafficking trial of
Ghislaine Maxwell, on whose
Terramar board of directors
Guterres' Partnerships
official Amir Dossal served as
only one of five members, and
no answer from new PGA
spokesperson Paulina Kubiak,
MINUSMA's Spokesperson
Dessable to her credit,
actually acting like a
spokesperson and public
servant unlike the others,
sent this on December 1: "Good
afternoon,
•
The United Nations
Multidimensional Integrated
Stabilization Mission in Mali
(MINUSMA) received allegations
of sexual exploitation
involving an employee of a
contractor in the
Mission.
•
The allegation referred to
sexual exploitative relation
that resulted in
pregnancy and subsequently of
birth that allegedly took
place over two years
relation.
•
The mission has referred the
victim for appropriate
assistance in line with the
UN’s victim assistance
protocols. The victim received
the provisions of medical,
life supporting material and
legal aid.
•
The Office of Internal
Oversight Services (OIOS) is
currently conducting an
investigation into the
allegation to establish facts.
The result of the
investigations shall be
communicated with the mission
and New York HQ.
Best regards Myriam
Dessables Director,
Strategic Communication &
Public Information
United Nations Mission in Mali
- MINUSMA ."
We publish
it in full and continue to
demand full answers from UNHQ
which takes the public's
money, and runs the UN show.
Watch this site.
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