Ban
Ki-moon
Daughter Hired
by
Douste-Blazy's
UNITAID, UN
Confirms to
ICP
By
Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive
UNITED
NATIONS,
December 31 --
The daughter
of UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon has
been hired by
UNITAID, a UN
facility for
the purchase
of
drugs against
HIV/AIDS,
malaria and
tuberculosis
that is run,
or
mis-run,
by French
politician
Philippe
Douste-Blazy.
(Click
here &
here
for previous
scoops.)
Inner
City Press
asked Ban's
top three
spokespeople
about this on
December
27, and on
every workday
since. Finally
at past 4:30
pm on New
Years
Eve the UN
confirmed the
hiring, but
did not state
what rules on
nepotism might
apply.
Inner
City Press on
December 27
asked the UN
to "please
provide the
Secretariat's
response to
the
allegation,
received by
Inner City
Press, that
'Hyun Hee Ban
has been hired
without a
legitimate
selection
process by the
UN agency
UNITAID," and
that "Philippe
Douste-Blazy,
chairman of
executive
board of
UNITAID,
arranged the
deal."
Specifically,
Inner
City Press
asked, "What
rules or
safeguards,
including
regarding the
hiring of
family members
of high UN
system
officials,
apply?"
Here
is the UN's
entire New
Years Eve
response:
From:
UN
Spokesperson -
Do Not Reply
[at] un.org
Date: Mon, Dec
31, 2012
at 4:38 PM
Subject:
Question
To: Matthew
Russell Lee
[at]
innercitypress.com
On
UNITAID: We
checked with
UNITAID. This
is their
response: Hyun
Hee
Ban has been
hired by
UNITAID with a
temporary
(limited
duration,
less than six
months)
contract as a
P3 technical
officer in
Monitoring and
Evaluation,
reporting to
the head of
Monitoring and
Evaluation in
the Department
of Operations.
She was
selected on
the
basis of her
CV,
availability
in Geneva and
the high
workload of
the
Monitoring and
Evaluation
team. As
UNITAID is a
partnership
hosted by
the World
Health
Organization
(WHO), all WHO
rules have
been adhered
to, as with
all UNITAID's
appointments.
Dr. Denis
Broun, the
Executive
Director of
UNITAID, was
responsible
for the
hiring.
To
say someone
was selected
on the basis
of their CV is
not explaining
a
recruitment
practice. And
there is a
history here -
click here
(2007) here
(2009, legal
threats)
and here
(2011).
With all due
respect to
Hyun Hee Ban's
qualification
and clearly
good
intentions,
given the
obvious
pressures and
conflict of
interest
issues raised
by a UN
related entity
employing a
direct
relative of
the Secretary
General, a
more detailed
response
that this, and
possibly
better or at
least some
rules will be
required.
But that,
based on the
timing of the
response, will
have to
be in 2013.
Happy New
Year. Watch
this site.
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