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UK Parliament Cites UN Sex Abuse As Guterres Cons BoJo For UNmerited 2d Term Bans Press

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Song I
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UN GATE, Jan 14 –  Antonio Guterres' four years as UN Secretary General have consisted of diplomatic failures, cover-ups of UN sexual abuse and UN bribers, including his own connections with convicted briber CEFC China Energy, and banning of the Press that asked. 

 Now even the UK Parliament has highlighted the impunity for sexual abuse in the UN of Guterres - so they should ensure no second term, right? Here it is: "6The United Nations (UN) Key challenges 101.Our predecessor committee described in detail the weaknesses in the UN system which have enabled the sexual exploitation and abuse of aid beneficiaries by employees of UN agencies to persist, in its 2018 report into Sexual exploitation and abuse in the aid sector.135 UN agencies suffer from the same weaknesses as other aid actors outlined in the this report, including a lack positive safeguarding culture, inadequate reporting mechanisms and ineffective investigations procedures. The UK is a major donor to UN agencies and should ensure they uphold the same rigorous safeguarding standards that the FCDO outwardly demands from its non-governmental organisation (NGO) partners.  102.Witnesses to this inquiry told us that typically, when UN agencies receive reports of sexual exploitation and abuse involving UN staff, investigations into the perpetrators are undertaken internally to the UN system and lack transparency. Founder and Senior Partner of Schwab, Flaherty & Associés, Edward Flaherty raised questions about the independence and competence of the investigators themselves and explained that most UN agencies enjoy immunity from local and national laws.136 He told us their legal liability on a national basis is zero.137 Representatives of the UN and UN agencies have stressed repeatedly that UN immunity does not apply in cases of sexual exploitation and abuse, however, Edward Flaherty described that in spite of these claims, immunity is lifted on a case-by-case basis, and it doesn’t happen very often, if at all.138  103.We took oral evidence from representatives from UNICEF, The United Nations Children’s Fund and UNHCR, The United Nations Refugee Agency who explained the measures that their organisations have taken to improve investigations into sexual exploitation and abuse including hiring investigators and providing them with specialist training.139 They stressed that when complaints are substantiated the perpetrator’s contract will be terminated.140 The UNHCR received 34 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse involving its personnel in 2018 and 83 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse involving its implementing partners. In 2019 it received 26 allegations involving its own personnel and 95 against its implementing partners. Between 1 January and 30 June 2020, it had received 12 allegations involving its own personnel.141 We were disappointed to hear that in 2018 the UNHCR only substantiated and dismissed one staff member on the grounds of sexual exploitation and abuse despite the number of allegations reported.142 In 2019, one case was substantiated but the disciplinary process was not completed before their contract expired. The UNHCR said this case was registered in the UN clear check database to avoid this person being rehired in any UN entity.143 The UNHCR cites three further members of its workforce who resigned from the organisation before the investigation into allegations was completed.144  104.The UN should not invoke immunity to protect perpetrators of sexual exploitation and abuse from robust investigation. The UK should work with the UN to ensure that UN immunity is not being used to protect perpetrators and call-out UN entities that have misused immunity provisions." Watch this site.

For Christmas 2020, violating what the public is told to do with the UN's WHO and by Joe Biden, among others, Guterres has traveled on vacation to Portugal (and, it's been said, then to the UK). He is a hypocrite.  

 Why did Guterres thumb his nose as his own organization's directives and travel to Portugal?

Was it meet up with his son Pedro, whose African business deals like a meeting with Rwanda Paul Kagame Guterres has refused to disclose or explain, when banned Inner City Press asked?   

Well, with Guterres in Lisbon, that city's and his organ of choice Expresso has begun Guterres' campaign for an entirely unmerited second term as SG, with Helder Gomes writing (or reciting, dictated by Guterres) that "the former Portuguese prime minister will fulfill the next 12 months with the promised US return to multilateralism. For now, Guterres maintains the taboo, but has already indicated that he still has a lot to do."  

More bribes to take? More civilians to sell out, as he has the Anglophones of Cameroon?

 If the UN is to retain or even regain any of its credibility, there can be no second term. Just say no to Guterres. Song I here. Watch this site.

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