Rapporteur
Says UN Lacks
Transparency
on
Whistleblowers,
UNCA Pulls
Rank
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 22 --
When UN
Rapporteur of
Freedom of
Expression
David Kaye
held a press
conference
before his
appearance
before the
UN's Third
Committee on
October 22,
his topic was
whistleblower
protection, on
which the UN
itself is
particularly
weak.
When
called on,
Inner City
Press asked
Kaye about
retaliation
against UN
official
Anders Kompass
for blowing
the whistle on
alleged child
rapes by
French troops
in the Central
African
Republic. Video here and embedded below.
Free
speech ironies
at the UN were
on display
right in
Kaye's press
conference.
The
representative
of the UN
Correspondents
Association,
which among
other things
took funds
from
now-indicted
David Ng's
South South
News and then
give it an
award, and gave
Ng a photo op
with Ban
Ki-moon at
Cipriani,
demanded to
ask the first
question, even
claiming that
the UN
Department of
Public
Information
has granted
this “right”
in writing.
Where?
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