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Against 2d Term Guterres Who Lies on
Rights Inner City Press Feb 26 Wrote to
PGA
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Song
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 9 – How corrupt and
undemocratic is today's United
Nations?
Well, now that
Antonio Guterres is pushing
for a second five-year term,
while banning
the Press for the 980th day
for daring to ask about his
finances and failures, he has
collaborators.
The
current President of the
General Assembly Volkan
Bozkir, a strongman from
Turkey who due to his bigoted
comments even pro-UN New York
City Mayor Bill de Blasio
wouldn't meet with, has the
duty of circulating letters
from candidates. But he
hasn't, and his spokesman
Brenden Varma on March 9
continued to dance around it.
Later on
March 9, Guterres who fails in
Cameroon, supports the
narco-president of Honduras
and lies about tipping of
China about Uighur dissidents,
issued to staff empty words on
his scam commitment to human
rights: "Dear
Colleagues, Today, the
world and the Organization
find themselves at a
crossroads. We
have left a devastating year
marked by the COVID-19
pandemic behind us and entered
a new year with a sense of
hope and determination to
rebuild better. Going forward,
I am convinced of one thing:
human rights must be at the
front and centre of all our
collective efforts. My
Call to Action for Human
Rights, launched a year ago,
is therefore more urgent and
relevant than ever. As
the pandemic has turned out to
be a human rights crisis at
its core, human rights must be
the building blocks as we now
have a unique and historic
opportunity to support Member
States in building a new
social contract that puts
dignity first. The seven
areas of the Call to Action
remain critical areas of focus
in this regard:
sustainable development, times
of crisis, equal rights for
women, civic space, future
generations and climate
justice, the digital world;
and – in order to achieve it
all – collective
action. We have
made important progress in all
areas over the past
year. This would not
have been possible without the
enthusiasm and resolve that
the Call to Action has
generated across the
Organization: I am proud
of, and energized by, your
commitment to translate this
system-wide initiative into
meaningful change for the
people we serve. Indeed,
it is not optional: as a
core purpose of the United
Nations set out in the
Charter, human rights are the
responsibility of each and
every one of us. It is
also, according to the UN75
global survey, what the people
of the world expect first and
foremost from us. How
could they not, when every
right in every region has been
hammered, and pre-existing
inequalities, marginalization
and vulnerabilities only
further deepened? Much
like COVID-19 vaccines, human
rights will not lead to a
healthier world if they are
only available to the
privileged few. That is
why, while marking the first
anniversary of the Call to
Action in February this year,
I appealed to Member States to
do more to advance our human
rights objectives [while
trying to steal a second term
to keep taking bribes.]
my overall
intention is to strengthen the
leadership of the United
Nations in advancing the cause
of human rights. You can
count on my full
support. We are in this
together. Yours
sincerely, António
Guterres." Lies.
But for
nearly the entirety of
February 2021, Bozkir has
refused to circulate the
letter of UN staffer candidate
Arora Akanksha.
Bozkir's
spokesman Brendan Varma, who
blocks Inner City Press
on Twitter, dances around what
the rules are and won't
answer.
So, as a
test - and to raise the issue
of the UN's lack of content
neutral media access rules, lack
of a Freedom of Information
Act (fought for the Free
UN Coalition for Access) and
lack of scruples - Inner City
Press on the morning of
February 26 submitted a signed
letter
and C.V. to the PGA's Office
and to Varma.
Also to the
President of the Security
Council for February, Barbara
Woodward of the UK Mission,
along with a formal request
for confirmation of receipt.
By 5 pm on
February 26, nothing.
Absolutely corrupt.
Dereliction of duty. But we
will not rest. Watch this
site.
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