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UN GATE, June 19 – The United Nations claims to have a zero tolerance for sexual exploitation by its staff and peacekeepers, but routinely covers up their abuses including the rape of children, withholding basic information which was provided to the Press under Ban Ki-moon but not now under Antonio Guterres. 

   Inner City Press, which Guterres has banned from the UN for 1067 days as it asks about these and his abuses, on June 23, 2020 received from outraged UN whistleblowers video of sexual exploitation, they said, in a white UN-marked vehicle, here.  Now Instagram, Facebook.

 Jump cut to June 3, 2021, when UN insider Pass Blue ran a story (since ham-handedly amended) falsely crediting another for the June 24 publication of the video - and implying that it an unfair attack on the UN.

  The article ignores that the UNDT held proceedings, and that UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on camera that three staff were suspended without pay, then never updated when they were restored to pay. All of this could have been or was known to Pass Blue from simple Google searches. But either they have an agenda, or are incompetent, or both. Before this article, Inner City Press tweeted it, and submitted a comment, blocked in "moderation."

  A full day later, Pass Blue put up one comment on the piece (only about Israel and Palestine) and disppeared the comment Inner City Press submitted; the piece's author, Maurizio Guerrero we reported a day later with a heavy heart, previously wrote to Inner City Press, "definitely there are some that want you out of the UN, as a punishment." June 4 stand-up here.

  Subsequently without posting Inner City Press' comments, or meaningfully addressing it, Pass Blue added in the body of the story: "The video was first posted on June 23 on the Twitter account of Inner City Press; it was echoed the next day by Mattea Merta, a Canadian anti-abortion activist who described herself as a “Pro-Family NGO United Nations Rep.” Then at the end of the article they added, " The article was updated on June 4, 2021, to correct where the alleged video was first reported on Twitter."

It's not an "alleged video." And still the story says, "The video surfaced on social media on June 24, 2020, but as the vehicle drives away in the recording, the UN logos on the car seem to vanish." But they'd that it "surfaced" on June 23, 2020... This is what's views as in-house UN accountability, one reason today's UN is entirely UNreformed.

  Inner City Press named to the UN the two men in the UN van: Michael Antoine and Ray Millan. The UN did not answer Inner City Press, but on July 2 Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Antoine and Milan were no longer being paid.

 Since September 9, this has been a lie as to Antoine, but Dujarric did not answer Inner City Press questions on September 14, see below.

On September 28, we reported that Millan, too, had been restored to full pay: "the Tribunal is satisfied that the nature of the alleged conduct and its unfortunate publicity...  The application, therefore, is granted to the extent it seeks to suspend the “unpaid” aspect of administrative leave." UNDT decision we've put on DocumentCloud here.  And from Guterres and Dujarric, nothing. They are lying about UN sexploitation.

 And UN staff have complained to UN about another video, here, which they have raised to Guterres' compromised OIOS investigators without action, here. They say "I was very happy to see how Inner City Press first published a video about UN staff having a sexual act inside a UN vehicle in Israel. It is thanks to you they have started an investigation and some actions were taken against those shameless UN staff.

A video of 1st September 2020 in Damascus involving a senior UN official, Mr. John Marks, Chief of UNICEF Operations in Syria. John and female UN staff are having a sexual act with an open window in the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus. A female staff member is UNHCR Public Information Officer Mysa Khalaf, ex-Al Jazeera journalist, joining UN three years ago. Here is the John Marks video in youtube https://youtu.be/sAOtsyuY4o0 .  This shameful video was taken by a local Syrians in the street next to the hotel. It was circulated inside Syria on Facebook and other social media. A lot of anger and negativity towards the UN because of this. Locals now hate the UN because of this video in social media. Person in the video says in Arabic that these people are shameless. The Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus is where UN staff is accommodated in Syria for many years now. A senior UN official like John Marks, cannot behave in this manner, showing disrespect to local traditions and culture in Syria. It is unacceptable. He is in Syria for humanitarian reason and not for having sex with open widow showing to Damascus.   Although this video was reported to UN New York, UNICEF HQ in NY and UNHCR HQ in Geneva. Senior Management in both UNICEF and UNHCR are all trying to cover it. Nothing was done to these two UN Staff so far. Their behaviour is shameful for the UN and does not match with code of International Civil Servants and UN Humanitarian workers. They both work for humanitarian agencies UNICEF and UNHCR and people in Syria are desperate with the conflict situation and living with humanitarian crises. These kind of acts in public undermine entire humanitarian work.   The UN High Commissioner Flippo Grandi is in Syria from 13-17 September. Someone should ask him why his humanitarian staff is having a sex with other UN staff in open widow in the middle of Damascus.   Millions are paid every year for UN staff to live in the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus, instead of spending these funds for Syrian people UN staff are having parties and sex in the Four Seasons Hotel.    Few months ago there was an article in local media about UN staff and UN Resident Coordinator, Head of UNDP Imran Riza with the UN country team having sushi parties in the Four Seasons Hotel where millions are hungry in the streets in Syria.Report was sent to local media from local hotel workers in Four Seasons   Inquiries should be made with UNICEF and UNHCR spokespersons so that a proper investigation starts. These kinds of people must not work in Syria as humanitarians."

Inner City Press put the question to UN Spokesman Steph Dujarric, Guterres, Fleming and others - no answer, even as on information and believe the staff member(s) asked for Dujarric to respond. He and Guterres do not care about staff, only censorship for their own corruption. So, again, video here.

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