| UN Brags of
Letting State Sponsored NGOs In While
Refusing To Answer Others & Banning
Press
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE Exclusive
Series, Nov 16 – In the UN of
Antonio Guterres, those who
ask about his undisclosed
links to Chinese bribery firm
-- and UN accrediated NGO --
CEFC China Energy, or or blow
the whistle on the UN given
China the names of Uighur
witnesses, get physically
thrown out and banned, or in
the case of staff,
fired.
Inner City
Press, which asked Guterres'
spokespeople Stephane Dujarric
and Melissa Fleming each
weekday in August and
September about the slow
motion firing of whistleblower
Emma Reilly, on the morning of
November 10 exclusively
published an answer from her,
below, and emailed a question
about it to Guterres and his
spokespeople Stephane Dujarric
and Melissa Fleming. Neither
deigned to answer.
But on
November 16 the UN patted
itself on the back for saying
it will let NGOs back into the
building in January 2022. One
who worked with Dujarric to
get the Press banned bragged
about it; Melissa Fleming,
apparently from Geneva, said
"We are so happy to welcome
you back!" Reilly said, "Oh,
please."
Because the
UN doesn't give a damn about
real NGOs. Consider those that
supported Reilly, and about
whose support Inner City Press
in writing asked Guterres,
Dujarric and Fleming without
answer - the UN doesn't care.
But CEFC China Energy? In.
See: "We, the
undersigned, condemn the
action taken by the United
Nations to fire human rights
whistleblower Emma Reilly on 9
November 2021 and call on the
Secretary-General, António
Guterres, and the UN General
Assembly to commit publicly to
critical reforms to ensure UN
whistleblower protections are
brought into the 21 st
century.
Ms. Reilly is one
of a long line of internal
whistleblowers who have
suffered for trying to do
their jobs and uphold the
human rights mandate of the
United Nations. The two should
not be incompatible...
The WIN Board of
Trustees wrote to
Secretary-General,
António Guterres, on two
separate occasions, one in
2020 and the other in early
2021 detailing the series of
procedural failures and abuses
in Ms. Reilly’s case. The
letters sought assurances that
action would be taken to halt
the unfair treatment of Ms.
Reilly and urged him to make
sure his orders from April
2018 to have Ms. Reilly
transferred and to mediate in
her case be fulfilled. No
assurances were provided.
Importantly, we called on the
Secretary-General to properly
and independently investigate
her serious concerns about the
practice of handing to the
Chinese authorities the names
of dissidents who were
providing information and
testimony to the UN Human
Rights Council.
Ms. Reilly’s
concern remains as urgent
today as it did in 2013. It is
imperative that the
Secretary-General, Antonio
Guterres and the UN General
Assembly now recognizes the UN
internal justice system is
broken and commits publicly to
critical reforms to ensure UN
whistleblower protections are
brought into the 21st century.
[Fat chance.]
Ms Reilly “…was
interested in human rights and
protection of human rights
activists. OHCHR was, by
virtue of the Complainant’s
whistleblowing, placed in a
very awkward diplomatic
position by a human rights
issue that it struggled to
handle well. A whistleblower’s
reporting of such a practice,
which was contrary to
fundamental UN principles and
values, is exactly the sort of
activity that must be
protected; it is far more
important than minor
infractions of bureaucratic
rules, which the system finds
it much more easy [“sic”] to
classify as protected.”
Protecting public
interest whistleblowers is no
longer a niche issue, if it
ever was, it is essential to
upholding human rights and
protecting the public’s right
to know. The United Nations
must lead the way. We remain
at your disposal to help in
any way we can. Yours
faithfully
African Centre
for Media and Information
Literacy (Nigeria) Alison
Tilley, Attorney (South
Africa) Blueprint for Free
Speech Campax (Switzerland)
Cathy James, Solicitor (former
CE of Protect) (UK) Centre for
Free Expression, Ryerson
University (CAN) Centre for
Research in Employment and
Work (CREW), University of
Greenwich (UK) Daphne Caruana
Galizia Foundation (Malta)
David Lewis, Professor of
Employment Law, Middlesex
University (UK) Drago Kos,
GRECO Chairman (form.) Edward
Patrick Flaherty, Senior
Partner, Schwab Flaherty
& Associes,
Attorneys-at-Law (Switzerland)
Emmanuel Jacob, President
European Organisation of
Military Associations and
Trade Unions (EUROMIL), EU
GlobaLeaks (Italy) Government
Accountability Project (USA)
Guernica 37 International
Human Rights Law Chambers (UK)
James I. Wasserstrom, Founder
and CEO, The Integrity
Sanctuary Kosovo Democratic
Institute / Transparency
International Kosovo Martin
Bright, Acting Editor, Index
on Censorship (UK) Martin
Jefflén, former Eurocadres
President, initiator of
WhistleblowerProtection.EU OBC
Transeuropa (OBCT) Oziveni
(Czech Republic) Peter A.
Gallo, Attorney (and former UN
Investigator) Pan African
Anti-Corruption Network, UNIS
Parrhesia Inc (UK) Pištaljka
(Serbia) Platform to Protect
Whistleblowers in Africa
(PPLAAF) Page 4
Protect (UK) SpeakOut-SpeakUp
Ltd (United Kingdom) The
Signals Network (USA and
France) Transparência
Internacional Portugal
Transparency International
Slovakia Transparency
International Slovenia
Transparency International
Ireland Transparency
International Italy Xnet
(Spain) WBN - Whistleblower
Netzwerk (Germany)
Whistleblowing International
Network CC: Ms. Michelle
Bachelet, High Commissioner
for Human Rights."
Bachelet
too is a joke, on the firing
of whistleblowers and
colluding with Guterres'
censorship of Press, often
away from Geneva at her real
home while still drawing her
large salary.
While
refusing to answer Inner City
Press written questions
despite an on
camera (broken) promise
to do so, Dujarric told those
he let into his briefing that
Reilly is NOT a whistleblower,
and that the UN will not talk
about "private" communications
- i.e., firing her.
Reilly to Inner
City Press: "I was
retrospectively placed on
special leave with full pay
from the moment the UN sent
armed police to invade my
home. They stopped even
pretending I had functions -
why bother, when they can just
fire any judge at the Tribunal
who isn't willing to simply
copy-paste their
position?
And I was fired
for daring to tell the truth.
I am not and have never been
accused of lying about this
policy, just of revealing it
and trying to warn people. The
UN "anonymous" source in Le
Monde (Eric Tistounet) all but
admits the destruction of
evidence I've reported -
sorry, but a list of names
handed over was allegedly
stolen? Did the dog eat the
UN's homework, too?
I, of course,
dutifully reported that
directly to the
Secretary-General yesterday.
The UN has absolutely no idea
how many times names were
handed over, whose names were
transmitted, and whether it
continues. Names appear to be
now given orally. Still nobody
thinks that it's worth
investigating why this policy
was put in place.
Guterres told me in a personal
email once that he would see
what he could do about my case
with the "people in charge."
His words. I guess the Chinese
delegation gave its
orders.
There isn't an amount of money
on earth that I could be paid
to be complicit in torture and
genocide.
The UN considers
my lack of "remorse" for that
an aggravating factor
justifying my immediate
dismissal. I have a
message for UN managers. I no
longer have immunity. Sue me
for defamation if you pretend
anything I have ever said is
untrue. I will certainly be
suing those who lied about
me. And you can quote me
on all of
that."
This is today's
UN under Guterres: absolutely
corrupt. Inner City Press has
applied to re-enter and cover
it as closely as it does the
SDNY court these days; a
polite letter to this effect
from law firm Quinn Emanuel
has yet
to be answered by
Fleming or any of her allies
in censorship. Watch this
site. For more on Guterres' UN
and China, see (just out)
"Belt and Roadkill," here.
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