| UN Rights
Commish Volker Turk Wastes
Public Funds in Mexico
Dodging Disappearances
Staff Say
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
April 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, Today Volker Turk
traveled to Mexico with full
entourage (a media officer, a
cameraman and his personal
friend and crony Matthias
Behnke). As OHCHR office in
Mexico has had to fire half of
its staff due to the budgetary
crisis (aggravated by
flamboyant Turk’s
mismanagement) many wonder
whether this is efficient use
of tax-payers money. Does
Volker Turk need to spend four
business class plane tickets
from Europe, plus hotel plus
DSA, for a three day visit?
Will “timid” Volker Turk dare
to raise sensitive human
rights issues with the
authorities or he will
continue his silent diplomacy
approach avoiding speaking up
to try to secure an extension
of his cozy mandate?. The bar
is low. Expectations are
lower. Only the bill is high.
And from staff,
after the junket:
Dear Matthew
Russell Lee: Many thanks for
your efforts to expose
corruption in Guterres' UN. We
are still wondering why
narcissist Volker Turk
traveled to Mexico with a 3
person entourage (including
his personal friend Matthias
Behnke and two press
officers).
Apart from videos
in touristic spots and
admiring murals it is hard to
see what was the objective of
his mission. The most visible
outcome is that timid Volker
Turk succeeded in undermining
the UN Committee on Enforced
Disappearances that had issued
a red card to Mexico’s
government and had requested
the issue to be elevated to
the UN General Assembly.
Equidistant
Volker Turk avoided the topic
and the conflict with the
authorities and authored a
joint press-release (something
unprecedented in OHCHR but the
main Mexican objective to
neutralize the Committee on
Enforced Disappearances
report). Turk’s staff also
succeeded in offending many of
the victims who got excluded
from meeting the High
Commissioner. So what was the
purpose of the mission apart
from very expensive bills?
(Four business class tickets
from Geneva, 5 star hotel,
meals plus 230 dollars per day
of DSA each!…. Member states,
watch out, this is how the
unearmarked funds are wasted.
This is fraud to tax payers.
Volker Turk, and all his
cronies, must go at the end of
his term. UN needs a new High
Commissioner for Human Rights.
As must
Guterres at UNHQ - Inner City
Press and FUNCA have sent a
questionnaire on transparency
and accountability to the now
four (so far) candidates for
UNSG, no answer from Rebeca
Grynspan, watch this site. And
nothing from Mike Waltz.
Meanwhile both Big Tony and
Amina are due on April 15 at
the IMF which Inner City Press
is accredited to cover,
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
for six months, then a denial
with no reason at all given.
Today's UN is corrupt.
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