| UN Volker Turk
Collaborated in Banning
Press Now Failed Town Hall
with Staff in Geneva
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
March 18 – 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: When Volker Turk
appeared before OHCHR staff
last week flanked by soulless
DHC Nada Al Nashif and
dissembling Kim Taylor, we,
the staff, knew the dice were
cast. Turk said that OHCHR has
received only 23% of its
annual budget. What does he
propose? That staff donate to
OHCHR! And to cut the
contracts of temporary staff!
This is a “management-made
crisis”. OHCHR has been
wasting un earmarked XB funds
in useless positions and
activities (6 million in
UDHR75, 8 million in an
Innovation hub, 12 million in
a Human Rights Inquiries
Branch, many useless posts
working for Al Nashif, many ex
OCHA friends brought by
Taylor! All the new
Scandinavian directors, and a
Resource Mobilization section
that does not bring funds!).
The reality is that for every
dollar spent in the field four
are spent in Geneva. Is that
sustainable? Is that what is
expected from the UNHuman
Rights? There is no
accountability and now they
want to fire the temporary
staff when the problem are the
posts funded with UXB funds.
Those should be cut. OHCHR
will fire temporary staff
under earmarked projects and
charged UXB staff against
those projects, fraud to the
donors, like when the thematic
work and Special Procedures
files were merged to charge
thematic work to SPB earmarked
funds, fraud again. No
oversight, no accountability.
Turk proposed a human rights
coalition when the reality is
that member states and civil
society do not trust him. The
reality is that member states
do not fund OHCHR because they
do not trust Volker Turk, Nada
Al Nashif or Kim Taylor. OHCHR
needs urgently an audit by
member states. The UN
needs a credible High
Commissioner for Human Rights.
Member states must intervene
now. After another
townhall meeting without
solutions OHCHR staff are
losing the fear to speak up
and to defend our rights. Do
not blame member states: this
is a management made crisis."
This is the UN of Guterres.
Turk as a staffer
on Guterres' 38th floor did
nothing when his boss 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. Some
human righters.
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