UN
Talks
Violence
Against Women
As Ladsous
Covers Up
Rapes, Of
NYCHA
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 25 --
While there
was much talk
at the UN
about the
Elimination of
Violence
Against Women
on November
25, that
morning a
range of
Darfur groups
wrote to the
UN to protests
its inaction
on,
and cover up
of, mass rape
in Tabit. Click
here for that.
Inner
City Press
asked Phumzile
Mlambo-Ngcuka,
Executive
Director of UN
Women, what
the UN is
doing. She
said that
things are
difficult in
Sudan, with
“limited”
civil society,
but that the
UN's presence
is helpful.
That's
something that
the Darfur
groups' letter
contests,
at least for
now.
The
UN signed an
agreement on
the topic with
New York City,
and Inner
City Press
asked Maya
Wiley, Legal
Council to
Mayor Bill De
Blasio,
about domestic
violence
victims not
having the
highest
priority for
those few
vacancy in the
NYCHA housing
projects. She
spoke about
other housing
programs;
perhaps we
will hear
more.
As
to the UN, the
cover up of
rapes in Tabit
in Darfur is
part of a
pattern. The
head of UN
Peacekeeping
Herve Ladsous
for months
refused
to answer
Press
questions
about rapes in
Minova in the
DR Congo by
his partners
in the
Congolese
Army, video
here. So
there is more
than
a little
“orange-washing”
going on at
the UN today.
Watch this
site.
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