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UNGA week Inner City Press Applies Citing
Scoops on UN Sex & China Bribe Scoops
By Matthew
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UN Gate, Sept 10
– As the United Nations after
a year of failing on Ukraine
and covering up sexual abuses
from the DR Congo to Colombia
gears up for its annual UNGA
Week this month, it has tried
to further limit access and
coverage by independent
press.
Nevertheless on
September 8 Inner City Press,
which only this month exposed
a UN sex quid pro quo scandal
in the MONUSCO "peacekeeping"
mission and the UN links of
indicted Chinese briber Cary
Yan, applied to the UN for
access:
Sept 8, 2022
United Nations SG Antonio
Guterres & USG Melissa
Fleming Media Accreditation
and Liaison Unit
I am writing to
you more than ten days before
the UN General Assembly high
level week as a journalist who
after covering the United
Nations for Inner City Press
for ten years was roughed up
and thrown out of the UN as I
covered its Fifth (Budget)
Committee on 3 July 2018 and
have been denied all access
since. There was no due
process, no right to appeal,
nothing.
The Department's
and MALU's lack of any content
neutral accreditation rules,
rule process including appeal
rights for journalists, must
also be addressed.
For the upcoming
UNGA High Level Week, I
noticed that as of Sept 8,
2022 the MALU site says /
claims: For UNGA week, the UN
has limited media access to
only to correspondents
“residing in the tri-state
area or Washington,
D.C.”
While (1)
that is discriminatory, (2)
will not be implement as
regards pro-government media
traveling with delegations - I
noted that I am an long-term
UN reporter (since 2005), se
quid pro quo scandal in the UN
Mission in the DR Congo, and
reside in NYC. My access badge
should be provided
immediately.
You and others including but
not limited to USG Fleming
have been written to on my
behalf by the Quinn Emanuel
law firm, no response yet
despite confirmation of
receipt, see this
video Letter
I
have a right to cover the UN,
the Security Council, ECOSOC
and General Assembly including
this month's High Level week.
For your information despite
the Under Sec-Gen having
assured the UN Special
Rapporteur on Freedom of
Expression that during my
exclusion my written questions
would be answered, the
questions have not been.
Nevertheless, here are some
recent stories: UN
Sexual Harassment in DRC
Leads to UNON Job as UNV
Jobs Traded For Sex Amid
Coverup
NGO
Fraudster Cary Yan Indicted
For Bribery Incl of Marshall
Islands
There are
many more Watch this
site.
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