UN GATE, Nov 1 –
The UN system hypocrisy
emanating from COP26 in
Glasgow is itself like global
warming. From UNICEF, which
banned the Press on October
27, and its outgoing chieftain
Henrietta H. Fore who headed a
steel company and then
something called Pozacorp,
this: "“COP26 must be the COP
for children,” said UNICEF
Executive Director Henrietta
Fore. “Climate change is one
of the greatest threats facing
this generation, with 1
billion children at extremely
high risk. Yet, while the
outlook is dire, world leaders
at COP26 have a significant,
time-sensitive opportunity to
redirect the terrible path we
are on." Yeah.
On
October 27 Inner City Press
received an invite from
UNICEF to sign into
WebEx online briefing to ask
questions to Yasmine Sherif,
Education Cannot Wait
director.
But when it did,
with questions about
Afghanistan and UNICEF
including its use of the
public's funds, and about UN
staff abandoned by Guterres ,
it was "removed by the host."
Video here.
By contrast, only
on October 26 Inner City Press
was interviewed by NBC TV in
Buffalo here.
Inner City Press
more than eight hours ago
asked three at UNICEF / ECW
including Kent Page and Anouk
Desgroseilliers for an
explanation:
"Subject: Press
question about ECW/Sherif
presser from which Inner City
Press was "removed by the
host" - Inner City Press is
waiting for an explanation. On
deadline, thanks in advance.
To: kpage [at] unicef.org,
adesgroseilliers [at]
un-ecw.org, info [at]
un-ecw.org
Hello. This is in
the first instance a formal
Press inquiry as to why, when
yesterday I clicked the WebEx
link to virtually attend and
ask questions at Yasmine
Sherif's press conference, I
was first muted, and then
"removed by the host" -
presumably you /
UNICEF.
This occurred
October 27 at midday and Inner
City Press is waiting for an
explanation. On
deadline, thanks in
advance. Matthew Russell
Lee, Inner City Press
Suprising,
perhaps, for an organization
asking the public for money -
but banning and even ousting
the Press that has questions
about it - no answer from
these three. We will ask more.
Where is Gordon Brown?
For now, podcast here.
Meanwhile
Guterres pmitted his personal
financial links to UN briber
CEFC China Energy, convicted
in the SDNY court, including
by banning Inner City Press
which reported on that case
and asked UN Spokespeople
Stephane Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming about it.
(Neither has
answered a polite letter from
the Quinn Emanuel law firm
seeking Inner City Press'
re-accreditation and an end to
UN censorship).
This is today's
UN - and, it seems, UNICEF.
Watch this site.
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