| UN Wastes
Money As Guterres Snubs
Staff and Still Bans Inner
City Press UNICEF Voice
Here
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
Oct 6 – How corrupt and
decrepit has the UN system
become under Antonio Guterres,
in this case due to Guterres?
Inner City Press
is today publishing below
another letter to it from UN
staff. First:
Dear Mr Lee,
Guterres’s UN is corrupt,
irrelevant and incompetent.
UN80 will end up with many of
us fired while those
responsible and their petty
bureaucrats will stay. The
reform of the UN cannot be led
by those who brought the UN to
irrelevance and bankruptcy.
The UN secretariat has
announced 20% cuts and many
contracts have not not been
extended. Yet, all the cuts
are made at junior P2 and P3
level. Why are the over 60
year-old P5s, D1s, D2s, ASGs
and USG not taking retirement
and leave space to young staff
that can regenerate an old,
obsolete, patriarchal and
elitist organization?
They should lead
by example, take their
pensions and leave. Instead,
they stay taking fat salaries
and preaching about the value
of youth, while the UN
bureaucrats age in luxury in
New York and Geneva and young
staff get fired. That’s UN
hypocrisy. What about
duplication and triplicacion
and mandates and cost?
If UNICEF is the
dedicated agency for children
what are the added value of
Virginia Gamba and Najat
Maalla other than wasting
funds? Same applies to UNWomen
and Priscilla Pattern.
How many administrative
services does the UN need?
How efficient is
to have multiple
administrative services in
costly New York and Geneva?
Guterres, Amina Mohamed, Guy
Ryder, Atul Khare,
Melissa Fleming, Rosemary di
Carlo, Catherine Pollard,
Marta Helena Lopez, Najat
Maalla, Volker Turk, Nada Al
Nashif, Ghana Walt, Jean
Pierre Lacroix, Fatou Ndyiaye,
Miguel Ángel Moratinos and all
the other cronies should
resign if they had any decency
left before they destroy the
UN. Those who brought the UN
to bankruptcy should not lead
its recovery. Member states
cannot remain silent. Staff
says no to management
incompetence!
On October 6, as
to UNICEF, we publish:
"a pressing
concern regarding the recent
decision to terminate my
position at UNICEF's Sudan
Country Office, which I
believe is a clear violation
of my rights and professional
integrity.
The abrupt termination of my
role, which I have diligently
held since 2015, was executed
without following the proper
procedures typically
associated with such actions.
Despite assurances of
prioritizing impacted staff in
cases of redundancy, my
position was swiftly filled by
another candidate as part of a
group recruitment process that
notably included an external
candidate unaffected by the
job elimination. Throughout my
tenure, I have maintained an
impeccable professional record
and have never been subject to
any disciplinary measures, or
investigation.
This unfair treatment has
deeply troubled me, reflecting
a situation where my removal
seems to have been
orchestrated to accommodate
external interests rather than
considering the rights and
well-being of current staff
members.
Despite internal efforts to
address this issue through
engagement with the Chief of
HR and panel members,
unfortunately, no satisfactory
resolution was achieved.
Furthermore, a consultation
with the UNICEF SCO
Rep/Sheldon on October 13th
did not result in the promised
follow-up.
It is disheartening to witness
such injustices within an
organization dedicated to
upholding human rights
principles, where the rights
of staff members appear to be
overlooked in favor of
personal motives or senior
management preferences (Chief
of Field Office, Blue Nile
Damazine – Khalid Musa)"
Inner City Press
applied to re-enter on June
19, here.
What will
incoming PGA Annalena Baerbock
do, including on Press
freedom? Watch this site.
Guterres had the
critical Press roughed
up and thrown out. There
has been no due process since,
not even a response to Guterres'
Melissa Fleming to a pro bono inquiry
for Inner City Press from the
law firm Quinn Emanuel. We'll
have more on this.
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