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UNITED NATIONS GATE, January 18 -- UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says he has a "zero tolerance" policy for sexual harassment, and for retaliation. But after Guterres imposed on Inner City Press on ongoing ban against entering the UN, made permanent by his Alison Smale in an August 17 unappealable letter, his two spokesman on  are refusing to answer written questions from Inner City Press about Guterres ignoring victims of abuse and harassment including at UNAIDS under Michel Sidibe, and and by his South Africa director, see below. Now on similar rot in the World Health Organization, Inner City Press is publishing in full whistleblower's email that others report on without detail. The UN system under Guterres is getting so corrupt, so dismissive not only of Press freedom but also wider human rights (Guterres calls human rights questions "impolite" and "arrogant," see his closed door reference to PNG-ed envoy Nicholas Haysom in Somalia, here) that full details will now be published as whistleblowers say Guterres should resign or be impeached. Beyond unacceptable racism the email contains detailed allegations of the type Guterres and his spokesman Stephane Dujarric now simply refuse to answer on, about the daughter of WIPO's retaliator Francis Gurry, Celine Gurry, "Immediately after her internship Ms Celine Gurry (Australia) was hired as professional staff, which is against WHO staff rules and regulations.  At this point, she was dating Dr. William Perea, senior staff within the unit.  Ms Gurry then left WHO to pursue studies for a year and continued to receive fabricated contracts and missions throughout her time studying. Also not WHO policy. Pat Drury and Dr. William Perea then fabricated a mission for Ms Gurry to join Dr Perea in Guinea. AFRO colleagues saw Dr. William Perea and Celine Gurry together in Guinea during the Ebola outbreak in the hotel.  It is well known in the department that Pat Drury also fabricated missions to Australia for Celine Gurry, to visit her family in Australia, business class, at WHO expense. This is unethical and a corrupt abuse of power.Immediately after her internship Ms Celine Gurry (Australia) was hired as professional staff, which is against WHO staff rules and regulations.  At this point, she was dating Dr. William Perea, senior staff within the unit.  Ms Gurry then left WHO to pursue studies for a year and continued to receive fabricated contracts and missions throughout her time studying. Also not WHO policy. Pat Drury and Dr. William Perea then fabricated a mission for Ms Gurry to join Dr Perea in Guinea. AFRO colleagues saw Dr. William Perea and Celine Gurry together in Guinea during the Ebola outbreak in the hotel.  It is well known in the department that Pat Drury also fabricated missions to Australia for Celine Gurry, to visit her family in Australia, business class, at WHO expense. This is unethical and a corrupt abuse of power." This is Guterres' UN system, where he and his spokesmen won't answer on his failure to disclose paid board membership on Gulbenkian Foundation, which tried to sell its Partex Oil to UN briber CEFC China Energy, on his form covering 2016, nor answer even on a UN Security suicide. Here's in the whistleblower's email, on which readers can make up there own minds: "Sex, racism, discrimination, abuse of power and corruption in WHO 
From: [Inner City Press is redacting] 
Sent: 10 December 2018 16:34
To: EMIROGLU, Nedret; LI, Ailan; FALL, Ibrahima-Soce; OFRIN, Roderico; THIEREN, Michel J.J.; ugarteci; ZEID, Nahed; POY, Alain Nyembo; MUSA, Emmanuel Onuche; sidhus [at] who.int; WP RO Communications; KANDEL, Nirmal
Subject: Sex, racism, discrimination, abuse of power and corruption in WHO     Sex, racism, discrimination, abuse of power and corruption in WHO    
10 December 2018    
Dear Dr. Tedros,     This is a follow up to the two emails written to you on the 21 April 2018, "Systematic discrimination at WHO headquarters against Africans" and on the 25 May 2018 "Systematic discrimination at WHO headquarters against Africans" #blackjobsmatter, which raised serious concerns about the transparency, accountability and relevance of WHO recruitment to key posts in the WHO/WHE emergency department. This is particularly worrying in the WHO emergency department (WHE), where 75% of all emergencies / emergencies worldwide are in sub Saharan Africa.      Unfortunately, balanced representation and racial discrimination has worsened since the first email written on the 21 April 2018, "Systematic discrimination at WHO headquarters against Africans".     Most emergencies happen in fragile states and in poor or rural areas. To respond effectively in emergencies, it is essential to deploy, be safe and to know how to operate in these remote areas and cultural contexts. Eyebrows and questions would surely be raised if the majority of respondents to an outbreak in Eastern Europe, Russia or China were from Africa. The inverse applies in Africa      Despite follow up meetings with Human Resources (HR) and your DG office (DGO) indicating that you seem to have taken the previous emails seriously – management has failed to demonstrate their adherence to their own policies, despite the fact that WHO recruitment policies are clear and visible for all to see – in practice, it is the total lack of follow up, the total lack of adherence to policies,  the total abuse of selection, recruitment and appointment of staff (and consultants) which is problematic and needs your urgent attention.      We are therefore obliged to protect ourselves as whistleblowers to write anonymously as the system is rigged, corrupt and retaliation the norm by Human resources (HR) and senior management.     At this stage, follow up to the “Discriminations Against Africans” email nine months ago, should have at least included the start of a full transparent investigation and action to balance the regional representation of staff in the WHO emergency department in HQ. If your management want real transparency we urge you to immediately convene an independent commission similar to the UNAIDS Independent Expert Panel.     This is the time for honesty and transparency, thus the addition of names and data.  Continued Discrimination and Abuse of Power  According to new WHO HR data circulated on 31 July 2018 by human resources and analyzed by WHO staff, currently in WHE / HQ there are:      ·      177 professional and higher grade staff   ·      Africa and other regions are chronically under represented in the emergency department  ·      119 (67%) are from 5 countries (France, USA, UK, Australia, Canada)   ·      Just 33% of staff come from developing countries (58)  ·      Colleagues from 5 countries (France, USA, UK, Australia, Canada) are 2,75 times as likely to be recruited than from developing countries.     Odds of recruitment at WHE /HQ staff – senior positions – by continent:      ·      Expert from Africa has only 0.2 chance of recruitment over Europe  ·      Expert from Europe has 5.6 times chance of recruitment over Africa  ·      Expert from Africa has only 0.01 chance of recruitment over Europe  ·      Expert from Europe has 90 times chance of recruitment over Africa  ·      Exert from Australia has 280, 583.3, 3.1 more chance of recruitment over Africa, Asia and Europe respectively  ·      Expert from Africa has 0.004 times chance of recruitment over Australia  ·       Expert from SEAR has only 0.002 chance of recruitment over Australia     Odds of recruitment by region:     ·      Expert from AFRO has only 0.1 chance of recruitment over EURO  ·      Expert from EURO has 7.8 times chance of recruitment over AFRO  ·      Expert from WPRO has 1.8 more chance of recruitment over SEARO  ·      Expert from SEARO has only 0.2 more chance of recruitment over AMRO  ·      Expert from AMRO has 5.8 times more chance of recruitment over SEARO  ·      Expert from AFRO has only 0.1 chance of recruitment over EURO  ·      Expert from EURO has 7 times chance of recruitment over AFRO  ·      Exert from WPRO has 1.8 more chance of recruitment over SEARO  ·      Expert from SEARO has only 0.3 chance of recruitment over AMRO  ·      Expert from AMRO has 3.1 times chance of recruitment over SEARO     How can WHO/WHE justify this imbalance and shocking recruitment practice?     -----While we are all responsible for creating a respectful workplace, those of us in leadership and management have a central role to play in promoting respect at WHO. We must lead by example ----- Dr. Tedros, 7 December 2018     To give just a couple of concrete examples: On 29 October 2018, Dr. Peter Salama (Australia) promoted Scott Pendergast (Australia –ex ILO) as Director of SPP (Strategic, Planning and Performance Management).  This D1 position requires a Masters degree, yet Scott Pendergast only has a BA. We request full transparency, cancellation and re-advertisement of the post.     On 12 November 2018 during the 0900 AEM meeting, Dr. Peter Salama, Deputy Director General (DDG) from Australia humiliated, disgraced and belittled a Director, Dr. Jaouad Mahjou, in front of 50 colleagues including G and P staff, interns, secondments, visitors and colleagues from our collaboration centers. Although Dr Mahjour also makes mistakes, he is the only director from EMRO and more to the point, this behavior is unnecessarily abusive and shows a serious lack of management skills and professionalism. The DDG has now lowered the standard for other managers throughout WHO/WHE HQ cluster. Is this the leading by example you are promoting?  Sex, affairs, promotions and abuse of power  Immediately after her internship Ms Celine Gurry (Australia) was hired as professional staff, which is against WHO staff rules and regulations.  At this point, she was dating Dr. William Perea, senior staff within the unit.  Ms Gurry then left WHO to pursue studies for a year and continued to receive fabricated contracts and missions throughout her time studying. Also not WHO policy. Pat Drury and Dr. William Perea then fabricated a mission for Ms Gurry to join Dr Perea in Guinea. AFRO colleagues saw Dr. William Perea and Celine Gurry together in Guinea during the Ebola outbreak in the hotel.  It is well known in the department that Pat Drury also fabricated missions to Australia for Celine Gurry, to visit her family in Australia, business class, at WHO expense. This is unethical and a corrupt abuse of power.  Other staff pay their own holidays. The trip cost more than 11 000 CHF of tax payers money. This is not the first time Mr. Pat Drury has fabricated trips for favoured staff.  Dr Tony Stewart also travelled home to Australia on a trumped up travel trip at WHO expense. Christmas is high season and once again the business class trip cost over10, 000 CHF at WHO expense.    Qualified Africans, Arabs, South Americans and Asians are being overlooked in favour of girlfriends and interns with little or no experience. A key person making these recruitment decisions is Mr. Pat Drury, P5. Although he has no academic qualifications beyond high school, Mr. Drury is more senior than many doctors and public health experts in WHO and makes key public health decisions worldwide.   Dalia Samhouri CPI manager in EMRO and the director Mahjour Jaourd also had an affair (both were married to other people at the time) - based on this relationship, much younger Dalia Samhouri was promoted then from P3 to P5.  The former director of IT was caught having sex with a colleague within WHO premises (garage). He was allowed to resign will full benefits. His contract should have been terminated.  This was not the first time he was caught in uncompromising positions with females on WHO premises.  Despite generous meeting spaces in the WHO and UN country and regional offices, various GOARN meetings and training workshop took place in exotic locations like Kruger Safari Park, South Africa. Too often, many workshop facilitators from WHO/WHE HQ outnumber the participants being trained.  When Robert Matiru (Canadian) was working in the TB department at WHO. He hired two of his girlfriends in quick succession. At one point he was directly supervising both girlfriends. A formal complaint went to the ombudsman and rather than conducting a full investigation HQ sent Robert Matiru in 2010/2011 on duty travel (full per diem for a year) to WHO Kobe office. Mr Matiru then returned to HQ and was promoted to Senior Operations Manager for WHO’s Pandemic Vaccines Donation Initiative and Chief Operating Officer of the Global TB Drug Facility (Now Director, Operations, UNITAID).  The mismanagement of funds and people continues at WHO. Funds for the 2018 Ebola outbreak are also known to not have been used judiciously. We have been informed that a plane was hired to transport three vehicles from the warehouse in Dubai at the cost of 1.3 million US dollars. Why would WHO airfreight vehicles from Dubai? We would appreciate the rationale when jeeps in DRC can be purchased at 80 K per vehicle.   Corruption stories about logisticians and procurement in WHO HQ WHE are legendary. We highly recommend an immediate comprehensive audit.   Recruitment, feedback and selection  Feedback: Crooked recruitment and selection process. Staff never receive a detailed feedback on written tests. Unsuccessful staff received the following sentence “Following a thorough review, we regret to inform you that it has been decided that your candidature will not be retained for further evaluation in this process”. How can staff improve if they are never given a detailed feedback on written exams or interviews? What exactly do staff need to do to improve?  Recruitment: We have evidence of serious issues concerning the selection of Oliver Morgan (UK) for the position of Director, Health Emergency Information & Risk Assessment (HQ/16/FT511) within WHE Program. One staff association representative, who wished to remain anonymous, described the entire hiring process of bringing in someone external to the organization and giving him one of the most responsible and senior position as tantamount to fraud, corruption, and abuse of authority by the hiring official. The vacancy notice for post HQ/16/FT511, which was originally announced during September 2016 with an initial closing date was later extended to accommodate Dr Morgan’s late application. The post was later closed sometime in November 2016. Dr Morgan, an external candidate, was given undue advantage over other qualified internal staff members to ensure his selection.  Further, this issue has the potential of damaging Organization’s credibility as bringing external individuals with limited or no prior WHO experience to the leadership post poses even greater risk for the Organization in light of the on going Ebola Virus Disease response in Nord Kivu.  We have evidence that the recruitment process (including WHO representative selections) is systematically rigged, not transparent and too often excludes Africans from the roster.  It is common knowledge that staff are deliberately being eliminated in the written exam to ensure that there are no strong candidates to interview to compete with often weaker pre-chosen candidates. How can an African colleague with 15 years experience and who has been acting as a WHO representative for a year not be placed on the roster while colleagues with one year experience at WHO HQ are placed on the roster? How is it that there are waivers for being a WHO representative? Despite WHO HR policy forbidding this, not all WHO representatives need to be on the roster to be appointed as WHO representatives.     In 2017, there was no recruitment process for emergency coordinators (incident roving managers), a photographer was hired as a roving incident manager. He and other roving incident managers were kicked out by the governments of Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan and Syria for incompetence. They were specifically hired by Dr. Rick Brennan (Australian), Rob Holden (UK) and Ian Clarke (UK).  Many Staff in the regions (EURO, AFRO, WPRO, SEARO, PAHO) are well educated and have double masters and the same work experience as colleagues at HQ but are P1/P2 staff and many are still G staff.  In contrast and in addition to the above-mentioned examples at WHE HQ, Some of logisticians are (P5 x 1) Carpenters and bricklayer (P3 / P4 x 2). Logistics are of course key to any outbreak and are doing an amazing job, but in terms of fairness and consistency. How can so many carpenter’s and bricklayers be P3/P4/P5 in WHO while medical colleagues and public health experts from the regions are not?   Although a university degree is not always needed for logistics, and although there are waivers for emergencies, is there one set of rules to recruit HQ staff and another to recruit rule for the rest of the regions?   Inequitable WHO recruitment policy and malfeasance in office will not attract the best talent in the world. As reflected in the 2018 “WHO Culture Survey”, staff morale and performance is negatively affected when there is an abuse of power and no fair or coherent promotion policy within WHO (31 January 2018).  Recent termination of African’s contract  This month in the WHE emergency programme, Ms. Lingawako Kalinde Mangachi (Malawian) and Mr. Pascoal Bento (Angolan) contract has been abruptly terminated during the middle of the Ebola outbreak in Nord Kivu. Pascoal Bento (Angolan) is the only African Luscophone in the emergency programme. The few remaining Africans are being sidelined, harassed and discriminated against.      Transformation     The transformation agenda includes yet another highly paid Mckinsey contract for yet more power point presentations - includes a lot of talk about “humans caring for humans”, “"Low-hanging fruit", "The right road, but the wrong direction.""Boiling the ocean.""Granularity",“collaboration for impact”, "Peeling the onion"“trust in our service”, “excellent professionals for health”, “persons of integrity”, diversity and values.      Transformation needs to start with transforming the transformation team and WHO. This is definitely affecting staff morale. Transformation is not dealing with the real issues.   Dr Tedros, to conclude, it would be a shame for your leadership to be tainted by lack of action and the inability or unwillingness to address unfair recruitment practices and discrimination against minorities, including your fellow Africans.  Thank you to colleagues from the regions (AFRO, EMRO, SEARO, WPRO and PAHO) who gave specific examples and evidence on: discrimination, abuse of power, sex for jobs, corruption and conflict of interest.   And finally, please can you urge your senior colleagues to address the issues instead of focusing on suppressing emails or trying to shoot the messenger!   For the World Health Organization to reach its maximum potential, it needs to serve the world in a transparent manner and to not to sabotage genuine concerns of staff committed to attain good health for all.   These issues are not going away and if anything will worsen unless you address them with an open and transparent way with an independent commission similar to UNAIDS Independent Expert Panel and practical follow up. We urge you to personally follow up.    ---No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. Elie Wiesel---  We will not relent until we have justice!" We'll have more on this. Now after UNAIDS country director in South Africa director Erasmus Morah made legal threats in September against a women alleging, on Facebook, that he sexually harassed her, UNAIDS spokesperson Sophie Barton-Knott says the agency's South Africaa country director has (belatedly) been put on administrative leaving pending a review / cover up by WHO's OIOS which previously served Sidibe (and Luiz Loures) so well. Reuters, typically, does not mention Michel Sidibe or name the country director or his legal threat, which is easily found online. Guterres and his enablers are making the UN system more and more UNaccountable each day. See November 20 video here. After refusing Inner City Press' Cameroon question and driving off in his / your Mercedes, Guterres left town, without the UN saying to where or who's paying. Now, even while banned from entering the UN by Guterres, this is an exclusive, too: in an October 31 meeting in Conference 6 in the UN from which Guterres has in retaliation banned Inner City Press for 119 days and counting, staff were initially told that "off color jokes" could not be sexual harassment. This from a UN official who admitted that if it were his family member who was the victim, he would go to the 17th Precinct of the New York Police Department. What hypocrisy, when this same part of the UN refuses to investigate and act on Guterres' Lieutenant Ronald E. Dobbins' July 3 (and June 22) assaults on Inner City Press with other UN DSS officers unnamed, and UN Security lobbies NYPD not to respond to Inner City Press' Freedom of Information Law requests. Another UN official said that harassed staff members are pressured not to go to the press. And in Rome, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization mimics Guterres by attacking - there legally, not like Guterres physically with Security and lawlessly with a secret list - the media that reports on it. The Italian Insider has reported in detail on sexual harassment charges against FAO's human resources official Fernando Servan. On November 6, still banned from the UN noon briefing for the 125th day and with no one who is allowed in asking about this, Inner City Press asked Guterres' spokesmen and Deputy and USG Smale questions including: "November 6-4: On UN system sexual harassment, what is the SG's comment and action on the involuntary kissing of an FAO staffer by Peruvian human resources official reported in The Italian Insider, and on FAO / official suing Italian Insider?" There was no answer to this, despite the promise Guterres' USG Alison Smale made not only to the Government Accountability Project then to Inner City Press, but also to the UN's own Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Information David Kaye, in her evasive answer two months after to his (some of) his questions about her ouster of Inner City Press -- no answer on appeal. Inner City Press asked the question again, sharpened, on November 7:

Hours later, rather than response by Guterres who claims he takes sexual harassment seriously, another buckpassing and bout of impunity as with Michel Sidibe at UNAIDS: "Regarding your questions on FAO, FAO has the following to say: 'The allegation was made in an article by the Italian Insider on a rumour concerning activities outside the workplace and, pending any formal complaint, it would be inappropriate to comment at this time.
FAO has a policy of zero tolerance towards any form of sexual harassment, sexual exploitation or abuse. The Organization is committed to ensuring a work environment that is free of harassment, in particular sexual harassment, as well as the highest standards of conduct for its employees with regard to sexual exploitation and abuse.'" So when UNSG Guterres is asked about FAO allowing rank sexual harassment, Guterres' spokesmen provide only the self-serving response of FAO which is suing the press that reported on the harassment, with Guterres silent or cheering, as he bans Inner City Press... Guterres after his junket in Lisbon is meeting with the UN Chief Executives Board, who have put up with his censorship and debasement of the UN, including the Director of FAO. We'll have more on this.
This Guterres cover up extends to what the UN views as separate, sexual exploitation and abuse. Inner City Press asked, without answer by close of business: "November 6-5: On UN sexual exploitation and abuse, yesterday you said “Vannina in my office has more information.” But all I was sent was the script / note that was read out, nothing additional. So what was the additional information you said on camera was in your office? Please immediately provide it - including figures for civilian personnel, partners, and personnel of UNSC authorized operation (not, it seems, on the Conduct and Discipline website)."  In the October 31 meeting - we have the names but out of respect for now for some current UN staff don't use them - an intern complained about the prevalence of sexual harassment for delegates or diplomats. It was claimed that Guterres is working on this - while he most recently had a female foreign minister change from a meeting in his office on the 38th floor to his residence on Sutton Place and even then summoned her upstairs, not from the flags and meeting room on the mansion's first floor but up into his personal quarters. A fish rots from the head. This meeting and the claims made about Guterres' responses were a matter of derision and disgust among many staff members - we'll have more on this.

This also was an Inner City Press exclusive: at the International Civil Service Commission, sexual harassment at which Inner City Press asked Guterres spokesmen about in person until roughed up and banned, the chairman Kingston Rhodes facing complaints is rounding up signatures of support, much like Louis Loures and now Michel Sidibe at UNAIDS. This is Guterres' UN: no standards, every man for himself and smash and ban the Press that asks. Here is a photo of the "petition" Kingston Rhoades has launched. We are also informed from UN / OIOS sources, not the filer, that a filing has been made with the Office of Internal Oversight Services, which has yet act on Inner City Press' filings on Cameroon, Guterres, Dujarric, Smale and others. This is Guterres' UN. And so, since corrupt Guterres, Smale and Dujarric continue to ban Inner City Press from their dying briefing since July 3, but we are here asking these questions: How many signatures one would need to clear a perpetrator?
How many signatures are needed to protect victims not only from sexual harassment, but from continuous retaliation and intimidation?
What are the duties of the UN staff during an investigation, are they allowed to harass further the victims and whistle blowers?
Is this how SG Guterres is protecting from victims from retaliation as he promised?
Is this what 'gender equality and empowerment of women" when women are used by those in power to attack the victims further?"   We'll have more on this.

For the PBS Frontline "UN Sex Abuse Scandal" documentary, Guterres arrogantly refused to be interviewed - by contrast he did 30 minutes with RT recently - and went on vacation on the broadcast date, after ousting and banning Inner City Press which has asking him about UN sex abuse. Guterres foisted off Jane Holl Lute, who has been saying the same thing on the issue for a decade. On August 27, Inner City Press asked Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric and Farhan Haq, as well as Smale and Guterres' Deputy SG Amina J. Mohammed, "August 27-2: As asked Friday, please confirm that the SG's envoy Jane Holl Lute is still on the Board of Directors of Union Pacific railroad AND the President and CEO SICPA, North America. Given that she now has two UN jobs and these other two jobs, at least, please explain how there are no conflicts of interest and why she had not made public financial disclosure -and, as Inner City Press has repeatedly asked, why USG Smale has not." On August 28 at 11 am Dujarric replied on this (nothing on Cameroon) that "MS. HOLL LUTE SERVES “UNDER WHEN ACTUALLY EMPLOYED CONTRACT.” SHE’S FULFILLED HER OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE RELEVENT ETHICS RULES OUTLINED HERE: https://undocs.org/ST/SGB/2006/6 . HER OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES ARE CLEARED BY THE ETHICS OFFICE." We'll have more about this - but what about Smale, who without due process and without recusal banned Inner City Press for life? 

 On July 25, banned from entering the UN by Guterres for the 22nd day Inner City Press put written questions to several missions and has received this, to his credit, from Swiss Mission spokesman Johann Aeschlimann: "I do not have any comment on Cameroon, but regarding your question on sexual abuse, I would like to assure you that for Switzerland these matters are of high importance. Consistent with our national approach, we consider all instances of sexual misconduct by UN peacekeepers as unacceptable. Switzerland is working closely with the offices of the Special Coordinator on improving the United Nations response to sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), Ms. Jane Holl Lute, and of the Victim’ Rights Advocate (VRA), Ms. Jane Connors. Moreover, the President of the Swiss Confederation is a member of the Secretary-General’s Circle of Leadership on the prevention of and response to SEA in United Nations operations. Switzerland holds that an adequate response to SEA should be victims-centered. In the upcoming negotiations in the Fifth Committee this fall, Switzerland will engage for a strengthening of the office of the VRA... On the matter of your access problems to the UN premises, I appreciate your information." We'll have more on this - including on the EU response. It was covering the July 3 meeting of the referenced Fifth (Budget) Committee that Inner City Press was roughed up by Guterres' Security and has been banned by him since, 24 days and counting. Back on July 25, banned from entering the UN by Guterres for the 22nd day Inner City Press put questions on First Avenue to the French Mission's political coordinator (who refused to answer, video here) and French UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric who said without explaining that Guterres chosen to to speak and sent Lute. Inner City Press in the morning wrote again to the French Mission: "Dear Ambassador Gueguen,, Ms Bree, Ms Negga, others: This is a reiterated request for your, your Mission's and Ambassador Delattre's comment on three issues: first, the troubling issue of UN sexual abuses, detailed in a one hour Frontline documentary broadcast an hour ago, for which UN Secretary General explicitly refused to be interviewed while now going on vacation. What is your mission and country's comment on  this? Here at the Delegates Entrance, banned from the UN for 22 days with no end in sight, I asked your Mission's political coordinator this morning. Nothing. Second, again, the human rights abuses by the Cameroon army and security forces, not only in the Anglophone areas (which I have been asking about in the UN since early 2017) but now also in the north, video linked to in Inner City Press, here, as verified by Amnesty International. (Now HCHR has commented, today - why is there no meeting of the UNSC, at least under Any Other Business?) Given that the Security Council has supported these Cameroonian forces, and given France's role in Cameroon and the region, this is a request for comment on deadline including on whether your Mission will now seek and/or support a Security Council meeting on these abuses, and if not, why not. I am asking these questions in writing now because I was banned all week from entering the UN and could not ask them at the Security Council stakeout.This notifies your Mission that I have been banned from the UN since at latest July 5, with no due process. See, The Independent (UK), July 12, 2018, “UN 'roughs up and bans' investigative reporter long considered thorn in side of world body officials, Mr Lee has written about UN in connection to Haiti, Burundi, Sri Lanka and other nations." Frontline did well by interviewing victims, but entirely misrepresented several interviewees' roles, most notably Isobel Coleman, who did not criticize the UN when she worked for Samantha Power, and stood by as the UN evicted Inner City Press from its work space and made it a "non resident corresponent." (Guterres has gone much further, trying to strip even that, deploying violence and banning the Press.) There was no mention of "R&R" Ladsous' role, nor of Lacroix. It was filmed some time ago, with David Gressley. But a key point is the 32 new allegations this year, each of which Inner City Press has asked the UN about before being targeted with violence and Guterres ban. That, and his arrogant refusal to answer, and going on vacation, should have consequences. Watch this site.

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