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Freedom Hypocrisy in UN Has Corporate
Promotion But No Response on 1st Amendment
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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UN GATE / SDNY,
May 5 – In the United
Nations there is a flurry of
statements about World Press
Freedom Day, not least for the
so-called UN Correspondents
Association.
But this group
has refused to respond in any
way to a July 6, 2021 letter
to each of its Executive
Committee members about the
UN's banning of investigative
Inner City Press, roughed up
inside the UN on July 3, 2018
and banned since. See below.
But UNCA
partners in a "confidential"
advertisement for a
corporation, sending its
members (several of whom,
disgusted, leaked to Inner
City Press) -- "On Wednesday,
11 May, the Office of the
Secretary-General’s Envoy on
Youth, in collaboration with
The Body Shop International,
will announce a major new
global campaign calling for
more youth voices in the halls
of power. The
Office of the
Secretary-General’s Envoy on
Youth is confidentially
inviting interested
journalists to attend a
virtual launch event that will
reveal the new campaign and
the new research behind it,
informed by the largest-ever
survey undertaken by The Body
Shop, covering 26 countries
and over 27,000 respondents.
This will be followed by a
panel debate with leading
youth activists addressing the
question ‘What if young people
ruled the world’, where we
will discuss how to raise the
voices of young people and
increase youth representation
in politics and public
decision-making.
The panel will include:
Moderator: Versha Sharma,
Editor in Chief of Teen Vogue
(TBC) Jayathma Wickramanayake,
UN Secretary-General's Envoy
on Youth David Boynton, CEO of
The Body Shop Gina Martin,
Campaigner for equal rights
and Ambassador for UN Women UK
and Beyond Equality
Campaigner, speaker and
writer, Gina is an advocate
for creating change in
communities for equal rights.
Her national campaign to make
upskirting illegal and
changing the English and Welsh
law resulted in the Voyeurism
Act."
Oh. Inner City
Press these days daily covers
the Federal courts, where it
covered the trial that
convicted on bribery charges
Patrick Ho of CEFC China
Energy, which sought to buy
the oil company of Gulbenkian
Foundation which paid
Guterres.
But on
July 3, 2018 Inner City Press
was inside the UN, as an
accredited journalist, putting
questions to the Ambassador of
Cameroon about his claims that
Guterres in his 38th floor
office never asking him about
his government's killing of
Anglophones, only about favors
he could do while Cameroon was
chair of the UN Budget
Committee.
Inner City Press
was roughed up and ousted, and
had been banned since.
In July
2021 the law firm of Quinn
Emanuel, pro bono, wrote
on behalf of Inner City Press
to Guterres' head of media
accreditation Melissa Fleming,
and to each executive
committee member of the United
Nations Correspondents
Assocation, seeking a dialogue
to get Inner City Press back
into the UN.
There was no
answer from these, who have
all virtue-signaled about
press freedom and WPFD since.
Guterres' spokesman Stephane
Dujarric was asked about the
Quinn Emanuel letter and
confirmed receipt, saying he
didn't know if it would be
responded to. Video.
It hasn't been.
Late
in 2021 Quinn Emanuel sent a
copy of the letter to the US
State Department, through
Laurel Rapp, asking the
Department and US Mission to
the UN and its Ambassador
Linda Thomas-Greenfield to
ensure Inner City Press'
re-entry into the UN.
No answer, nor to
Inner City Press' direct
request the the USUN Mission
for access to ask questions on
May 3, 2022. So
now we publish the letter, on
DocumentCloud, here.
Those
in receipt of
the first,
friendly
letter:
melissa.fleming@un.org,
marialuiza.viotti@un.org,
mekel@un.org,
malu@un.org,
and UNCA
Valeria
Robecco, ANSA
News Agency,
Nabil Abi
Saab,
Al-Araby,
Jianguo Ma,
Xinhua News
Agency, Edith
Lederer,
Associated,
Giampaolo
Pioli,
Quotidiano,
Linda Fasulo,
Ibtisam Azem,
Al-Araby
Al-Jadeed
Newspaper, Ali
Barada, France
24, Asharq
Al-Awsat;
Oscar Bolanos,
OMB News,
Sherwin
Bryce-Pease,
SABC South
Africa -
Alexander
Hassanein, The
Tokyo Shimbun,
Maria
Khrenova,
TASS, Philippe
Rater, Agence
France-Presse,
Kaori Yoshida,
Nikkei, Betul
Yuruk, Anadolu
Agency at
president@unca.com,
valeria.robecco@gmail.com,
nabisaab@gmail.com,
mjg222888@gmail.com,
elederer@ap.org,
giampioli@aol.com,
lindafasulo@gmail.com,
ibtisam.azem@alaraby.co.uk,
abarada@hotmail.com,
ombyvozque@gmail.com,
s.brycepease@gmail.com,
alexander@tokyoshimbun.us,
khrenova_m@tass.ru,
philippe.rater@afp.com,
kaori.yoshida@nex.nikkei.com,
byuruk@aa.com.tr
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Watch this
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And we will have
more, much more, on
this.
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