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To Access UNGA week Inner City Press Applies Citing Scoops on UN Sex & China Bribe Scoops

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UN Gate, Sept 10 – As the United Nations after a year of failing on Ukraine and covering up sexual abuses from the DR Congo to Colombia gears up for its annual UNGA Week this month, it has tried to further limit access and coverage by independent press. 

Nevertheless on September 8 Inner City Press, which only this month exposed a UN sex quid pro quo scandal in the MONUSCO "peacekeeping" mission and the UN links of indicted Chinese briber Cary Yan, applied to the UN for access:

Sept 8, 2022 United Nations SG Antonio Guterres & USG Melissa Fleming Media Accreditation and Liaison Unit

I am writing to you more than ten days before the UN General Assembly high level week as a journalist who after covering the United Nations for Inner City Press for ten years was roughed up and thrown out of the UN as I covered its Fifth (Budget) Committee on 3 July 2018 and have been denied all access since. There was no due process, no right to appeal, nothing.

The Department's and MALU's lack of any content neutral accreditation rules, rule process including appeal rights for journalists, must also be addressed.  

For the upcoming UNGA High Level Week, I noticed that as of Sept 8, 2022 the MALU site says / claims: For UNGA week, the UN has limited media access to only to correspondents “residing in the tri-state area or Washington, D.C.”     

 While (1) that is discriminatory, (2) will not be implement as regards pro-government media traveling with delegations - I noted that I am an long-term UN reporter (since 2005), se quid pro quo scandal in the UN Mission in the DR Congo, and reside in NYC. My access badge should be provided immediately.    You and others including but not limited to USG Fleming have been written to on my behalf by the Quinn Emanuel law firm, no response yet despite confirmation of receipt, see this video  Letter

   I have a right to cover the UN, the Security Council, ECOSOC and General Assembly including this month's High Level week. For your information despite the Under Sec-Gen having assured the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression that during my exclusion my written questions would be answered, the questions have not been. Nevertheless, here are some recent stories:  UN Sexual Harassment in DRC Leads to UNON Job as UNV Jobs Traded For Sex Amid Coverup 

NGO Fraudster Cary Yan Indicted For Bribery Incl of Marshall Islands

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