UNSG
Guterres Hold Town Hall, Press
Banned UNlike In Previous Years
By Gallach
By Matthew
Russell Lee
Update
- UN censorship
UNITED NATIONS,
January 9 -- When new UN
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres held his first Town
Hall meeting on January 9,
Inner City Press went in early
to stake it out - that is,
stand in front and speak to
attendees -- as it has in
previous years.
But
this year, due to a
retaliatory eviction by former
Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon's head of
communications Cristina
Gallach and Ban's holdover
spokesman Stephane Dujarric,
Inner City Press could not
pass through the turnstile on
the UN's second floor. And
there was no one in Gallach's
Media Accreditation and
Liaison Unit office. Inner
City Press and its coverage
were banned.
So here
was the notice the UN sent
out, provided to Inner City
Press by UN staff:
“Dear colleagues,
Secretary-General
António Guterres will hold a
first global townhall meeting
with UN staff on Monday, 9
January 2017 from 9 - 10:30 am
(NY time) in the ECOSOC
Chamber at United Nations
Headquarters in New York.
Many duty
stations away from New York
will participate via
video-teleconference. All
staff members of the UN
Secretariat, as well as
Agencies, Funds and
Programmes, are encouraged to
attend the townhall in person
if they are in New York.
UN Staff, do you
have a comment or a suggestion
you would like to share with
Secretary-General Guterres?
You may submit
comments or questions HERE
(anonymous submission is
possible)... A selection of
frequently asked questions
submitted by staff will be
presented during the Townhall
meeting.
Warm regards,
The Department of Management “
We'll have more on this.
The United
Nations at the beginning of
2017 still has no
Freedom of Information Act,
no content neutral standards
for media accreditation and no
right to due process or
appeal for journalists.
This is UNacceptable.
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