| UN Two Tier
System Has Tony Cronies
Off Layoff Hit List
Leaked to Inner City
Press
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE
/ Juba, Nov 15 – How corrupt
is today's UN under Antonio
Guterres? Consider South
Sudan, where UN personnel
stand accused of child rape on
which UN spokespeople Stephane
Dujarric and Melissa Fleming
have refused all Press
questions. On November 14
this, from a UN whistleblower
sent to Inner City Press:
Dear Matthew
Russell Lee,
On 8
October 2025, a message from
USG Jean-Pierre Lacroix
informed all missions of the
Secretary-General’s directive
to implement contingency plans
under the 15% downsizing
scenario, including the
execution of staff reduction
measures wherever
applicable.
Following this
instruction, the Office of
Human Resources Management
(OHRM), under the leadership
of ASG Martha Helena López,
issued guidance that
effectively dismantles the
very foundation of fairness in
performance management. OHRM
officials were directed to
treat “Fully Successful”
performance as equivalent to
zero value, recognizing only
“Exceeding Expectations” as a
positive rating. Moreover, Ms.
López instructed that the
long-service award, a
recognition personally
endorsed by the
Secretary-General, be
discontinued and reserved
solely for staff holding
continuous international
appointments — thereby
excluding thousands of loyal
national staff who have
dedicated decades of service
to the Organization in their
home countries.
This
regressive policy represents a
grave betrayal of the UN’s
core principles of equity,
integrity, and justice. Under
this distorted system, a staff
member can only appeal if
rated “Underperforming” — but
not if rated merely “Fully
Successful.” In other words,
mediocrity is
institutionalized, and
excellence is silenced. Staff
are now completely at the
mercy of their supervisors and
program managers .
Those who expose
irregularities or refuse to
conform to unethical
instructions face certain
retaliation through
manipulated performance
ratings, with no possibility
of appeal. For the first
time in United Nations
history, national staff
serving in their home
countries and deployed
internationally are being
systematically stripped of
fair recognition and
long-service consideration
because their home country
service to the United Nations
is completely denied in rating
. This discriminatory approach
signals a profound collapse in
organizational integrity and
moral leadership. Staff who
once served with pride and
dignity now describe
themselves as hostages to a
culture of fear and
favoritism, trapped in a
system that rewards compliance
over competence and loyalty
over honesty.
Even more
disturbingly, the Staff
Management Group (SMG) —
originally intended to ensure
fairness — has been assigned
to conduct ratings only for
lower-graded staff,
effectively excluding others
and centralizing judgment in
the hands of a few. This
two-tiered system has
destroyed the principles of
equality and transparency that
once defined UN service.
The United Nations, once a
beacon of justice and human
rights, now stands on the edge
of moral collapse — becoming
the very symbol of inequality,
suppression, and abuse of
authority it was created to
resist. Without urgent
corrective action and genuine
accountability at the highest
levels, this institution risks
losing not only its
credibility, but also its
soul.
Example: the
UNMISS Leadership has failed
its' Staff, as a result, staff
have lost confidence and trust
in its Leadership and in the
ongoing CRP process. On 6 Nov,
in what seems like a
pre-approved list shared by
the UNMISS-SMG by mistake -
and now given no answers
published by Inner City Press
on its DocumentCloud here
- details some offices with
specific names of
International staff, to be
considered for cuts.
Guterres,
they say, should end
censorship. Application was
made on June 19, 2025, here.
Still as of October 7 no
answer at all from Melissa
Fleming or Stephane Dujarric.
Totally corrupt. Watch this
site.
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