| At UNCTAD
After UNSG Antonio Guterres Lied To Staff
On Race Biased Bias Trainer Durant
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Song
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UN GATE, June 1
– Antonio Guterres' four
and a half years as UN
Secretary General have
consisted of diplomatic failures,
cover-ups
of UN sexual abuse and UN
bribers, including his own connections
with convicted briber CEFC
China Energy, and banning
of the Press that
asked.
The whole
UN system has been corrupted,
with hypocrisy and racism
institutionalize, normalized.
Today's example is UNCTAD:
After
UNCTAD's Secretary-General
Mukhisa Kituyi left to contest
the presidential elections in
Kenya, his ASG deputy, former
Belgian politician Isabelle
Durant, took over in the
interim.
While many
directors despair about her
continued lack of grip on
substance, she has decided to
make her mark by talking about
gender. She released a memo in
which she discouraged managers
from appointing any men at
junior levels and told the
organization's millennial men,
many of whom are from
developing countries, to grin
and bear it. The staff council
looked into the matter and
reported that contrary to what
she was saying about women
being disadvantaged, Durant's
own data showed that women
applicants at UNCTAD have a 50
percent higher chance of
getting selected or promoted
than men. There was no
reaction from her on being
caught out.
She then
released a video on tackling
unconscious biases.
The only
problem, it featured three
women, all of whom were white.
The fact that two of the three
heads of trade agencies in
Geneva are black (Ngozi from
Nigeria and Coke-Hamilton from
Jamaica) passed her by or
perhaps succumbed to her own
unconscious bias.
Meanwhile staff from the
global south have complained
at the way she has surrounded
herself with women of European
descent, keeping those of
colour at a distance. She also
appointed her fellow Belgian
assistant as the pompously
titled Chief of Staff.
Fortunately her reign will end
soon - her contract expires in
December."
So she may
go - but Guterres will be
foisted on the world including
Africa for five more years, by
faux transparency mission
Estonia. ACT is an act. Watch
this site.
Guterres,
charged with racism by his own
staff, is poised to steal a
second term as SG by blocking
all opponents - Inner City
Press submitted the required
letter and C.V. to force a
much needed debate on UN
censorship - including by
sending a hypocritical letter
to staff. Just like Durant.
If the UN
is to retain or even regain
any of its credibility, there
can be no second term. Just
say no to Guterres. Song
I here. Watch this site.
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