| UN
Staff Critics of
Rights Commish Volker
Turk Say His Tenure
Has Been Like That of
Guterres
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
Sept 14 – 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, Many thanks for exposing
corruption in the UN...
"For four years Volker Turk has bragged
about reforming OHCHR. The truth is that over
300 staff have been fired (mainly junior women
including pregnant and some colleagues with
medical conditions), while 300 education
grants have been awarded!, some 60 staff
have been transferred from Geneva to
regional offices (including to Vienna,
Volker’s capital city, no conflict of interest
there).
But Geneva remains top heavy, more than 840
staff still there, most OHCHR work force.
Worst, thanks to Volker Turk’s incompetence
not a single senior post has been abolished.
So the overall budget of OHCHR remains in
deficit. And what is Volker’s reaction? Take
money from any country willing to patch
the sinking boat in return for Volker Turk
turning a blind eye to their human rights
abuses. [Sounds like Guterres]
Sadly, OHCHR’s public voice, once the moral
bar of the UN, now it’s a sad list of
predictable calculated platitudes about Volker
Turk’s personal feelings. Worse, what applies
to some countries do not apply to others,
depending on Turk’s personal preferences or on
the contributions to OHCHR. Same applies to
senior staff, where Volker Turk’s cronies are
favored regardless of their performance.
Having lost Palais Wilson to UNHCR, OHCHR is
now cornered in Building H of PdN, in
inadequate premises and hardly showing in the
office twice a week.
Will Amb
Waltz and Amb Steggerda hold
SG candidates accountable and
force them to seriously look
into OHCHR mismanagement?
For now, doesn't
look like it. Inner City Press
remains banned from the UN,
despite July 25, 2026 application,
and its questions are not
being answered... Watch this
site.
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