| UN Volker Turk
Collaborated in Press Ban
Staff Pan His Mediation Room
amid Guterres Layoffs
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
Dec 24 – How corrupt and
decrepit has the UN system
become under Antonio Guterres,
in this case due to Guterres?
Today's example is again from
the Office of the High
Commission for Human Rights,
to which Guterres appointed
his unqualified crony Volker
Turk more than two years ago.
From OHCHR
staff: "Dear Matthew Russell
Lee - Help us to expose how
bad the situation has become
on OHCHR under Guterres’ crony
Volker Turk. 350 fired this
year and more lined up for
2016. “Small moments of
clarity can be enough to
transform stress into
perspective” writes Volker
Turk in X as he gets his
meditation room in UN Geneva.
Those are his priorities.
Meditation as he sinks OHCHR
confirm Volker Turk lacks
touch with reality. His words
are a ridiculous and cruel
slap in the face to more than
350 junior (and mainly female
P2 and P3 including soc and
pregnant ones) fired in 2025.
Meditation will be no
consolation for them or for
their families.
Perspective is
useful to review his
performance as High
Commissioner for Human Rights
in 2025: deficit doubled from
45 to 97 million dollars in
one year, all cash reserves
were spent in expensive units
like his “Analític Hub” (the
fact that it was established
in the most expensive duty
station, Geneva, same as with
his questioned “Investigations
Branch”, is testament of how
money has been wasted), most
field presences have lost
capacity to pay for expenses
in Geneva and in Colombia all
field offices closed and 70%
of the staff fired, globally
OHCHR is irrelevant as the
High Commissioner models after
his master SG Guterres who has
made the UN invisible.
Stress is what
350 young colleagues fired
face. Perspective is, against
the Controller’s instructions,
not one single ASG, D2, D1 or
P5 have been part of the mass
dismissal in OHCHR.
Stress is what 120 staff and
their families face as they
have been threatened
“relocate or will be
fired”. Perspective is
the Cleptocracy headed by
Volker Turk and his cronies
including Nada al Nashif, Kim
Taylor, Maarit Kohonen, Peggy
Hicks, Mahamane Cisse Gouro,
Michael Camilleri, Matthias
Behnke, Francesco Motta,
Dimiter Chalev, Abdul Aziz
Thioye, Juliette de Rivero,
Scott Campbell, Beatrix
Balbin, Veronica Birga and
those who run OHCHR like a
family affair.
Earmarked money
is routinely deviated to cover
financial holes. Reprisals
against whistleblowers are
tolerated routinely. Do not
forget, Volker Turk’s term
ends in September 2026, watch
out Master Guterres does not
extend him as his farewell
present. The UN needs a new
High Commissioner for Human
Rights before Volker Turk and
his gang destroy the Office
and deplete all the accounts."
Inner City Press
re-applied to re-enter the UN
on June 19, 2025 - no answer
at all from Melissa Fleming,
Tel Mekel, Stephane Dujarric.
Today's UN is corrupt.
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