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UN GATE, Feb 17 -- The UN under Antonio Guterres, which covers up child rape by Cameroon peacekeepers and itself roughs up the Press which asks about it, has propounded a harassment policy - through Jan Beagle, who is accused of harassment, as Inner City Press noted on 21 August 2019. Now Beagle has been found guilty, in the case of "Ms S.C.N." whom we know. From the finding of the ILO Administrative Tribunal: "Judgment No. 4241THE ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL,Considering the second complaint filed by MsS.C.N.against the World Health Organization (WHO) on 15December 2017 andcorrected on 20January 2018, WHO’s reply of 2May, the complainant’s rejoinder of 9August and WHO’s sur-rejoinder of 13 November2018;Considering Articles II, paragraph 5, and VII of the Statute of the Tribunal;Having examined the written submissions;Considering that the facts of the case may be summed up as follows:The complaint challenges the decision to dismiss her complaint of harassment as unsubstantiated.Facts relevant to this case can be found in Judgment4240on the complainant’s first complaint, also delivered  this  day,  in  which  she challenged  the  decision  to  reassign  her  from  the  post  of  Director, Technology  and  Innovation  Department  (TIN),to  the  post of Senior Advisor on Innovative Strategic Information, Strategic Information and Evaluation Department (SIE). On 19January 2016 the complainant submitted a formal complaint of harassment to the Director, WHO Internal Oversight Services (IOS),against her first-level supervisor, the then Deputy Executive Director, Management  and  Governance  (the DXD/MER)  at UNAIDS –a  joint and co-sponsored United Nations program on HIV/AIDS administered Judgment No. 42412by  WHO. She  also  made allegations  of  harassment  against two other staff  members,  MsE.  (the  DXD/MER’s  Senior  Advisor)  and  MsF. (the Director of the DXD/MER’s Office). The  complainant  alleged  that  from  September  2012,  while  she occupied the post of Director, TIN, at grad eD.1, the DXD/MER engaged in behavior that violated the Policy on the Prevention of Harassment at  WHO.In particular  she  alleged  that the  DXD/MER isolated  her, inappropriately delegated management responsibility to her subordinates MsE. and MsF., imposed an excessive workload on her, and engaged in conduct she described as “gaslighting and mobbing”, which ultimately led  to  her sick leave  from  June  2015  to  January  2016  and  to  her reassignment to the post of Senior Advisor, SIE, as of 1February 2016. IOS conducted an investigation into her allegations of harassment and,  in  its  report  submitted  to  the  UNAIDS  Executive  Director  on 13 July 2017, it concluded that there was insufficient evidence to support the complainant’s allegations and recommended to close the case.Meanwhile, the complainant was informed in March 2017 that her appointment would be terminated following the abolition of the post to which she had been reassigned.  She was separated from UNAIDS on 24 July 2017. On  14August  2017  the  Executive  Director  submitted  the  IOS report to the Global Advisory Committee on Harassment (GAC), which agreed  with  the  findings  and  conclusions  of  the  IOS’s report  and recommended, on 6September, that the Executive Director close the case. By a letter of 13September 2017 the Executive Director informed the  complainant  that,  based  on  the  reports  of  the  IOS  and  the  GAC, he had  decided  to  close  the  case  without  further  action  pursuant  to paragraph7.19(i)  of  the  Policy on  the  Prevention  of  Harassment  at WHO.... DECISION For the above reasons, 1.The impugned decision of 13September 2017isset aside. 2.WHO  shall  pay  the  complainant  50,000 Swiss  francs  in  moral damages. 3.WHO shall pay the complainant 8,000Swiss francs in costs." More here.

   Stephane Dujarric, the lead spokesman of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, has joined his boss in personally covering up child rapes and sexual abuse by UN personnel, including recently a Tanzanian peacekeeper's alleged sexual exploitation in DR Congo. On August 9 Inner City Press in writing asked Guterres, Dujarric and others: "This is a Press request that you immediately provide all if-asked and additional information about the new allegation of SEA announced at 12:01 pm today, apparently of SE by a Tanzanian "peacekeeper" in DR Congo - and also why previously published charges are no longer in the data to which UN Peacekeeping Conduct and Discipline points, including what if being done for these victims and any steps taken to avoid this constant repetition of abuse despite the SG's ostensible commitments. Again, are new allegations being buried elsewhere on the data page? Inner City Press is asking in writing because banned from the noon briefings and any follow up questions, now for more than a year. Today as before none of Inner City Press' written questions, including on Cameroon, have been answered. This is a request that you immediately confirm receipt of these questions." But there was no response.

 At the August 9 UN noon briefing from which Guterres and Dujarric banned Inner City Press for the more than 400th day, Dujarric said, "from Tuesday to Friday next week, my office will not hold daily noon briefings, but I understand Monica will be here.  The office will be staffed, and we will be able to answer your questions."

  So on the morning of Tuesday, August 13 Inner City Press asked again, in writing, including to Guterres' incoming Communicator Melissa Fleming: "August 13-3: On UN sex exploitation and cover up(s), as Inner City Press asked on August 9 without any response to day, This is a Press request that you immediately provide all if-asked and additional information about the new allegation of SEA announced at 12:01 pm today, apparently of SE by a Tanzanian "peacekeeper" in DR Congo - and also why previously published charges are no longer in the data to which UN Peacekeeping Conduct and Discipline points, including what if being done for these victims and any steps taken to avoid this constant repetition of abuse despite the SG's ostensible commitments. Again, are new allegations being buried elsewhere on the data page? Inner City Press is asking in writing because banned from the noon briefings and any follow up questions, now for more than a year. Today as before none of Inner City Press' written questions, including on Cameroon, have been answered. This is a request that you immediately confirm receipt of these questions." Again, as Dujarric's office closed on August 13, no answers, no response. This is the UN's cover up of UN sexual abuse, and it's now on Melissa Fleming as well. Inner City Press also asked, ".  August 13-6: Given that the SG's public schedules for August 2, August 5, August 6, August 7, August 8, August 9 and now August 13 are entirely blank, not even "all appointments internal" as before but just blank, given that Poland's Foreign Minister was not able to meet with the SG on August 3, nor Pakistan PR Maleeha Lodhi on August 7 (tweeting "As the SG is away"), please immediately state where the UNSG is, now and for the next three weeks, and at what cost to the public. Additionally, since public officials from Trump to de Blasio to Corey Johnson all disclose where they are, and given the UN system travel scandals at UNRWA, UN Women and previously UNEP, explain why Mr. Guterres' lack of transparency is not part of the problem. Given the Secretariat's communication failures, state when exactly Ms. Fleming takes over from Alison Smale, whether Ms. Fleming is still has stated on her profile at UNHCR (Chief Communications  @Refugees as of August 7) and if she is answering some/any of her e-mail there." Nothing. We will stay on this.

  While refusing to answer banned Inner City Press written questions about UN rapes, Guterres and Dujarric have issued propaganda about how well the UN pays its victims though a Trust Fund both grotesque and murky, with no opportunity to question much less cross examine.

 On May 30 during a UN noon briefing Inner City Press was banned from attending and asking questions at for the 330th day in a row, Dujarric's deputy Farhan Haq read out statistics of UN sexual exploitation and abuse from the first quarter for 2019. Inner City Press could not ask questions, and none of the correspondents allowed in asked any questions about it. Afterward Inner City Press wrote to Dujarric, Guterres, Haq, USG Alison Smale and DSG Amina J. Mohammed: "This is a Press request that you immediately e-mail Inner City Press the UN Sexual Abuse and Exploitation data read out at today short noon briefing - no one allowed asked any questions about it - and also the five personnel announcements and c.v.'s, immediately. It is outrageous that Inner City Press which reports about the UN daily is banned from entering to ask questions. Please send this information immediately, and explain."

   From all of those addressed, the lone response was from Haq, a copy of the transcript of the briefing (which goes online here). In the three weeks since, not a single answer from Haq or Dujarric or Guterres and Amina J. Mohammed or Alison Smale. Just cover up and propaganda, such as this dumped online at 5 pm on Friday, June 21: "More than 50 Member States convened at UN Headquarters today at the invitation of the Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance (DMSPC) to take stock of assistance provided to victims through the Trust Fund in support of sexual exploitation and abuse and to pledge further donations to the Fund.  The Under-Secretary General for the Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance, Jan Beagle, who chaired the meeting, said that projects implemented through the Trust Fund have “helped elevate the voices of victims through reinforced community networks.” “They have also learned new skills and trades which has supported reintegration into their respective communities without fear of retribution or stigma,” added Ms. Beagle.   In the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than 440 community members have benefited from income-generating projects. Similar initiatives are underway in the Central African Republic and Liberia. Assistance and specialized services are being provided by both UN and non-UN entities and organizations.   Ms. Beagle also thanked the 19 Member States who have so far donated to the Trust Fund, bringing its total to USD 2 million, including some USD 400,000 received from payments withheld from United Nations personnel against whom allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse have been substantiated.  She encouraged further donations to the Trust Fund in order for the United Nations and its partners in the field to provide sustained assistance and support and help restore the dignity of victims, paving the way for economic independence.  Other participants in this meeting of Member States, included the Victims’ Rights Advocate, Assistant Secretary-General Jane Connors, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Leila Zerrougui, and Assistant-Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and Americas, Miroslav Jenča.   The Trust Fund was created in 2016 by the Secretary-General to provide assistance and specialized services to victims of sexual exploitation and abuse committed by UN personnel and to children born as a result of these acts." Shameful, like Guterres on the Rohingya and Cameroon and the Uighurs. #DumpGuterres.

   The UN's transparency under Guterres has declined steadily. But on his issue of refusing to provide basic if-asked information from the UN Peacekeeping missions about the allegations the UN data dumps in one line on its website, Dujarric stands apart.

  While Dujarric was away on Guterres' most recent junket, now saying nothing about the no confidence motion in Tuvalu while Guterres is there, long time deputy spokesman Farhan Haq to his credit - it is his job after all - twice provide the if-asked information, see below.

  (It was Dujarric who said, on camera, that Guterres' UN would "continued to answer emailed questions from Mr. Lee," here. Inner City Press has not been able to enter the UN once since then. So that only rationale for stopping is content: censorship.)

  The moment Dujarric returned, with his glad handing jokes with the scribes his uses to oust the Press, even this if-asked information was again withheld. It is not because it is an "international" staffer on whom Guterres refuses to give information. The only difference between the Moroccan peacekeeper's child rape and the allegations Haq answer on is... Dujarric, and perhaps the French connection. We'll have more on this.

  Guterres says he has a "zero tolerance" policy for sexual abuse, exploitation and harassment, and for retaliation. But on March 15 he took his administration's "press briefing" about UN sexual abuse off the record, in a room he has banned Inner City Press which most asks about it from for 414 days.

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