UNITED
NATIONS GATE, May 1
– How corrupt
and hypocritical
is the
United Nations of
Secretary General
Antonio Guterres?
So much
so that while
Guterres claims zero
tolerance and
to be a
feminist, now he was
rewarded
and covered up
sexual
misconduct in
his own office.
In
a musical chairs
personnel move
on April
18, the day
after he continued
his 287th
(now 301st)
day censorship
of the Press,
Guterres named Fabrizio
Hochschild
Drummond of
Chile "as
Special
Adviser of the
Secretary-General
on the
Preparations
for the
Commemoration
of the United
Nations’ 75th
Anniversary."
This promotion
is,
ghoulishly,
Guterres rewarding
what multiple
staff say was
Hochschild's
relationship
with another
junior staff
member. One of
the staff
members tells
Inner City
Press it in these words: "his
promotion to
USG was
because the SG
wanted him out
of his office
after he was
caught having
an affair with
a junior staff
member. In
terms of power
play this is a
reward for
sexual
harassment."
Talk about MeToo -
the faux
feminist
Guterres covers up
and rewards
such behavior.
And it is
spreading
throughout the
UN system.
Here's from
our colleagues
The
Italian
Insider,
also attacked
by the UN and
not allowed in
unlike more tamed
faux watch-poodles
who say
nothing about
Guterres' censorship
of Press:
"IFAD
President,
Gilbert
Houngbo, is
asking the UN
agency's board
to leave the
International
Labour
Organization
Administrative
Tribunal
(ILOAT) so as
to make it
easier for
management to
fire staff at
the
poverty-busting
organisation
and strip
employees of
the tenuous
protection the
Geneva-based
ILOAT courts
provide
against abuses
including
sexual
harassment
such as a new
case it is
considering
against top
IFAD executive
Ashwani
Muthoo, IFAD
Sources said
Friday.
“IFAD staff
are in almost
open revolt,”
a senior IFAD
source told
the Insider.
“The
organization
has many cases
filed against
it in the
ILOAT,
including one
involving
harassment by
Ashwani
Muthoo.
They have lost
a lot of cases
before. Their
response is to
leave the
ILOAT, but
they are
trying to do
it in secret,”
the source
added,
speaking on
condition he
not be
named.
“A document
has been
submitted to
the board, but
it is
confidential,
and staff
don't know
what it
proposes.
This is a
violation of
IFAD's
disclosure
policy, but
there is no
accountability
and the board
doesn't
care.”
Italian
Insider
requested a
copy of the
document from
the IFAD press
office Monday
but while the
press office
said it would
reply “as soon
as possible”
there was no
concrete
response by
Friday.
The latest
ILOAT case was
filed by a
staff member
who claims
Ashwani
harassed her
and that IFAD
did nothing to
stop it or
compensate
her. IFAD has
fought the
case at every
step of the
way. “If they
really were
sincere about
‘zero
tolerance’ for
harassment
they would
have settled
the case,” the
IFAD senior
source
said.
Ashwani, now
Director of
IFAD’s Global
Engagement and
Multilateral
Relations
Division, was
suspended from
his previous
senior
position at
the agency in
a separate sex
harassment
case brought
several years
ago by an
Asian senior
government
official who
claimed he
harassed her
while on a
mission for
IFAD. He was
cleared of the
allegations by
an internal
whitewash
investigation
and allowed to
resume his
post. Ashwani
lists his
educational
achievements
as including a
PH.D from the
University of
Knightsbridge,
which is
widely
regarded as a
bogus 'mail
order'
university and
is recognised
by no
government.
Subsequently
Indian
national
Muthoo and his
father, a
patriarch in
tight-knit UN
circles in
Rome still on
the payroll at
the FAO,
showed their
gratitude when
one of
Ashwani's
brothers who
is a senior
academic at
Warwick
University
arranged for
the then IFAD
President
Kanayo Nwanze
to receive an
honorary
degree from
the hallowed
institution.
Ashwani and
his other
fun-loving
brother
Raqesh, a
director of
the Food and
Agriculture
Organisation,
a sister
agency of
IFAD, are
cronies and
drinking
buddies of
Fernando
Servan, the
Peruvian human
resources head
who had been
dubbed a ‘sex
predator’ by
former UN
investigator
Peter Gallo of
Hear their
Cries, the NGO
fighting sex
abuse at the
UN.
A macho
predatory
approach to
young women
employees
fuelled by
gallons of
alcohol has
flourished as
a lascivious
senior
management
style at the
UN food
agencies in
Rome during
the 10 year
reign of FAO
Director
General José
Graziano da
Silva, a
Brazilian, who
is sueing
Italian
Insider’s
chief editor
in two
criminal libel
cases at the
Rome Tribunal
for allegedly
tarnishing the
image of the
FAO."
Nothing left
to tarnish. A
fish rots from
the head:
#DumpGuterres.
In the
midst of Inner
City Press'
questioning
in 2018 about
Guterres' links to
now convicted UN
bribery Patrick
Ho's China Energy
Fund Committee and
Guterres' failures
on Cameroon
and elsewhere, his
UN Security twice
roughed up Inner
City Press on June 22 and July
3, 2018.
Then
after Inner City
Press filed a New
York Police
Department
complaint against
the UN and its
Lieutenant Ronald
E. Dobbins, none
of its written
questions to UN
Security chief
Peter Drennen
and Guterres
were answered.
There are no
due process
rights for
journalists in
the UN of
Guterres. On
April 15, a year
minus a day
since the UN
accredited
Inner City
Press on 16
April 2018, Inner
City Press
submitted a
formal
application
and letter
for
re-accreditation,
including in
light of the
guilty verdict
and
sentencing
against
Patrick Ho of
CEFC (video
here),
financial
links to which
Guterres has
failed to disclose and has for
287
days sought to
censor to conceal.
On the
morning of April
17, without
any reasoning
or
explanation,
this:
"Greetings
Matthew LEE
from
ICP
INNER CITY
PRESS,
Your media
accreditation
request, with
reference no:
M66561081, has
been
declined."
Just as there
was no
hearing, no action
on assault by
UN DSS
Lieutenant
Ronald E.
Dobbins, and
not appeals
process, no reasons.
Absolute
lawless
corruption.
The
letter was sent to
Guterres, his
USG Alison
Smale and
her
"personal assistant"
Alison Corbet, his
chief of staff
Maria Luiza
Viotti and
her staffer
Eihab Omaish,
his
Deputy SG
Amina J. Mohammed
and her chief
of
staff Nelson
Muffuh, as well
as to PGA
Maria Fernanda
Espinosa
Garces, her
chief of
staff Kwabena Oseidanquah,
her
spokesperson
Monica Grayley and
staffers Nadia
Kalb and
Raquel
Martins, to MALU
chief Tal
Mekel and
others still to
be named
along with a simple
request for confirmation
of receipt.
Even this they had not
done, a full 38
hours later. From
what's been
submitted: "A
year ago on 16
April 2018 I
was
re-accredited
to enter and
cover the
United
Nations, as
for many years
before. Then I
asked more and
more questions
about the
Patrick Ho /
CEFC China
Energy UN
bribery
scandal, about
the Secretary
General, about
Cameroon - and
on 22 June
2018 I was
pushed out of
the UN
Visitors Lobby
while other
non-resident
correspondents
remained
there.
On 3 July 2018
as I covered
the UN Budget
Committee
meetings as I
have for
years, I was
physically
roughed up by
UN DSS Lt
Ronald Dobbins
and another
who refused to
give his name.
On July 5 I
was told I
could not
enter the UN
and this
remains the
case, with no
hearing and no
appeal.
Now just less
than a year
since I was
accredited,
before the
above and
other facts of
record, I am
submitting
this formal
application
for
accreditation
which you
grant to
correspondents
who report far
less, and far
less
critically, on
the UN than
Inner City
Press.
It is
particularly
imperative
that Inner
City Press be
allowed to
enter and
attend the
noon briefing
as hundreds of
my questions
have gone
unanswered
despite USG
Smale's assurance
to UNSR David
Kaye, and
Spokesman
Dujarric's on
camera
assurance.
Beyond
the hundreds
of articles
covering the
UN since the
arbitrary
ouster of 3
July 2018, for
the
record:
March 29,
2019, Hong
Kong TV documentary
on Patrick Ho
CEFC, Inner
City Press in
front of UN
and SDNY...
For years Guterres
received money as a
board member of the
Calouste Galbenkian
Foundation, which
despite its name is
the 100% owner of
Partex Oil and Gas.
Partex
has operations in
Angola, Abu Dhabi,
Brazil, Kazakhstan,
the Netherlands,
Oman and Portugal.
It was to a
Portuguese court
that Guterres, while
justifying
no listing some of
his income,
disclosed in 2016
that he was paid at
least € 2735 per
month for his
position with the
Gulbenkian
Foundation.
But while a now
deleted Foundation
web page (archived here)
stated that Guterres
continued with
Gulbenkian into
2018, Guterres did
not list it on his most
recent, and so
far lone, UN Public
Financial
Disclosure, which
covered 2016
("Disclosing
financial and other
interests for the
2016 reporting
year").
So why did Guterres
disclose his
position with the
Club of Madrid, but
not
with the Gulbenkian
Foundation / Partex
Oil and Gas?
Inner City Press has
a right
to re-enter
and pursue these
questions.
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