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Parliament Cites UN Sex Abuse As Guterres
Cons BoJo For UNmerited 2d Term Bans Press
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Song
I
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UN GATE, Jan 14
– Antonio Guterres' four
years as UN Secretary General
have consisted of diplomatic failures,
cover-ups
of UN sexual abuse and UN
bribers, including his own connections
with convicted briber CEFC
China Energy, and banning
of the Press that asked.
Now even
the UK Parliament has
highlighted the impunity for
sexual abuse in the UN of
Guterres - so they should
ensure no second term, right?
Here it is: "6The United
Nations (UN) Key challenges
101.Our predecessor committee
described in detail the
weaknesses in the UN system
which have enabled the sexual
exploitation and abuse of aid
beneficiaries by employees of
UN agencies to persist, in its
2018 report into Sexual
exploitation and abuse in the
aid sector.135 UN agencies
suffer from the same
weaknesses as other aid actors
outlined in the this report,
including a lack positive
safeguarding culture,
inadequate reporting
mechanisms and ineffective
investigations procedures. The
UK is a major donor to UN
agencies and should ensure
they uphold the same rigorous
safeguarding standards that
the FCDO outwardly demands
from its non-governmental
organisation (NGO)
partners. 102.Witnesses
to this inquiry told us that
typically, when UN agencies
receive reports of sexual
exploitation and abuse
involving UN staff,
investigations into the
perpetrators are undertaken
internally to the UN system
and lack transparency. Founder
and Senior Partner of Schwab,
Flaherty & Associés,
Edward Flaherty raised
questions about the
independence and competence of
the investigators themselves
and explained that most UN
agencies enjoy immunity from
local and national laws.136 He
told us their legal liability
on a national basis is
zero.137 Representatives of
the UN and UN agencies have
stressed repeatedly that UN
immunity does not apply in
cases of sexual exploitation
and abuse, however, Edward
Flaherty described that in
spite of these claims,
immunity is lifted on a
case-by-case basis, and it
doesn’t happen very often, if
at all.138 103.We took
oral evidence from
representatives from UNICEF,
The United Nations Children’s
Fund and UNHCR, The United
Nations Refugee Agency who
explained the measures that
their organisations have taken
to improve investigations into
sexual exploitation and abuse
including hiring investigators
and providing them with
specialist training.139 They
stressed that when complaints
are substantiated the
perpetrator’s contract will be
terminated.140 The UNHCR
received 34 allegations of
sexual exploitation and abuse
involving its personnel in
2018 and 83 allegations of
sexual exploitation and abuse
involving its implementing
partners. In 2019 it received
26 allegations involving its
own personnel and 95 against
its implementing partners.
Between 1 January and 30 June
2020, it had received 12
allegations involving its own
personnel.141 We were
disappointed to hear that in
2018 the UNHCR only
substantiated and dismissed
one staff member on the
grounds of sexual exploitation
and abuse despite the number
of allegations reported.142 In
2019, one case was
substantiated but the
disciplinary process was not
completed before their
contract expired. The UNHCR
said this case was registered
in the UN clear check database
to avoid this person being
rehired in any UN entity.143
The UNHCR cites three further
members of its workforce who
resigned from the organisation
before the investigation into
allegations was
completed.144 104.The UN
should not invoke immunity to
protect perpetrators of sexual
exploitation and abuse from
robust investigation. The UK
should work with the UN to
ensure that UN immunity is not
being used to protect
perpetrators and call-out UN
entities that have misused
immunity provisions." Watch
this site.
For Christmas
2020, violating what the
public is told to do with the
UN's WHO and by Joe
Biden, among others,
Guterres has traveled on
vacation to Portugal (and,
it's been said, then to the
UK). He is a
hypocrite.
Why did
Guterres thumb his nose as his
own organization's directives
and travel to Portugal?
Was it meet up
with his son Pedro, whose African
business deals like a
meeting with Rwanda Paul
Kagame Guterres has refused to
disclose or explain, when banned
Inner City Press
asked?
Well, with
Guterres in Lisbon, that
city's and his organ of choice
Expresso has begun Guterres'
campaign for an entirely
unmerited second term as SG,
with Helder Gomes writing (or
reciting,
dictated by Guterres) that
"the former Portuguese prime
minister will fulfill the next
12 months with the promised US
return to multilateralism. For
now, Guterres maintains the
taboo, but has already
indicated that he still has a
lot to do."
More bribes to
take? More civilians to sell
out, as he has the Anglophones
of Cameroon?
If the UN
is to retain or even regain
any of its credibility, there
can be no second term. Just
say no to Guterres. Song
I here. Watch this site.
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