UN
Report on COVID and Cities Is
So Empty Guterres Spox Had
Press Removed From Promo
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Video here,
Vine here
UN
GATE, July 27 -- UN
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres says
he has a "zero
tolerance"
policy for
sexual abuse,
exploitation
and harassment,
and for
retaliation.
But he engages
in all of
these.
Now he is releasing
a bogus report
on COVID 19
and Cities -
while his own UN
Security
violated New York
City's
prohibition on
leaving gyms
open. Inner
City Press
exclusively
reported that,
but in the run
up to the
release of
this fraudulent
report was
"removed" from
the UN
briefing
about it.
Guterres is a
criminal.
On
July 27 when
Inner City
Press signed
in to a UN
briefing on
COVID-19 and
cities,
including
HABITAT's
Maimunah Mohd
Sharif, another
Guterres self
promotion, in
order to ask
about
Guterres'
personal
guards violating
New York City
prohibitions
on gyms being
open, it was
"removed
by the host."
Photo here;
video here.
This is
on Haq - and
Achim Steiner
and Maimunah
Mohd Sharif.
Here
is what was
forwarded
to Inner City
Press by
several of
Guterres'
disgusted
in-house
scribes:
"Invitation to
journalists to
attend
briefing:
A media
briefing will
be held on
Monday, 27
July at 8:30
am NY time,
ahead of the
release of the
Secretary-General’s
brief on
COVID-19 and
Cities which
will be
published on
Tuesday, 28
July. If
you know
journalists
who would wish
to attend this
briefing and
respect the
embargo,
please RSVP
with their
names to
Florencia Soto
(sotonino at un at org).
Currently, no
materials are
available to
send to
journalists –
we hope to
receive
English key
messages
tomorrow (24
July).
You are also
invited to
attend and
listen in –
questions
being reserved
for
journalists.
The briefer
will be the
Executive
Director of
UN-Habitat
Maimunah Mohd
Sharif. Please
note the
briefing is
embargoed
until the
policy brief
is out on 28
July at 00:01
a.m.
The report
will give an
overview of
the stark
impact of
COVID-19 on
cities so far
and will
demonstrate
how the crisis
has
exacerbated
existing
inequalities
and
development
deficits and
has thrown the
UN’s
sustainable
urbanization
policies into
question.
Instructions
to
connect:
Direct link
for
interactive
participants
only, here
You may be
asked to enter
the following
info to join
the
meeting:
Event number:
129 555 4460
Event
password:
noon_briefing
All
participants
should keep
their mics
muted when not
speaking.
Who to contact
if
participants
have a problem
with the
connection?
Participants
should send an
email to unvc at un dot org
with reference
to the Webex#
along with
their phone
number and a
BCSS
technician
will contact
the
participant
ASAP.
Background
information on
communications
planning for
the policy
brief:
Key points in
the policy
brief:
UN-Habitat is
the penholder
with
contributions
from UNDP,
UNEP, DESA,
ECLAC, ESCWA
and ESCAP. The
target
audience is
policymakers."
Haq
is refusing to
provide basic,
historically disclosed
information
about UN
sexual exploitation
and abuse
cases - this despite
Haq's road to
his gatekeeper
position
running
either through
the defunct
newspaper the
City
Sun, or
being the son
of UNDP
economist
Mahbub ul Haq.
In either
case, this is
a new low,
withholding
information
about a UN
"international"
engaging
in sexual
exploitation
in so
often
mistreated South
Sudan - all the
more so give
Haq's online
connections to
women's
studies in the
Garden State. We'll
have more on
this.
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