In Corrupt UN of Guterres
Crony Volker Turk Oversees Waste and
Retaliation 7 Year Delays
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
Jan 21 – How corrupt has the
UN become under Antonio
Guterres? Today's example is
the Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights
Volker Turk, sent to Inner
City Press which Guterres and
his Melissa Fleming ban from
entering the UN to ask, while
Spox Stephane Dujarric refuses
written questions.
Dear Matthew
Russell Lee:
Management
accountability is a lip
service in Volker Turk’s
OHCHR. Last week many of
us got notified of the outcome
of the roster process for P3
and P4 posts. The problem is
that this roster exercise
started in 2018! OHCHR
Human Resources Section, under
Kim Taylor has taken almost 7
years to complete the process.
Not only there has been no
transparency and recourse to
the outcome but we know that
external staff was paid to
finalise this process which 7
years later is meaningless.
How much money has it cost?
Adding insult to injury Kim
Taylor has been promoted (even
though she lied previously in
her PHP).
She is now head
of Administration, including
Human Resources which proved
to be too much for her, and
Finance (she has no experience
in Finance and more qualified
candidates discarded).
OHCHR starts 2025 which a 45
million dollar funding gap)
result of poor management.
Kim Taylor is
ruthless and corrupt but
protected by Deputy High
Commissioner Nada Al Nashif.
There is real fear of
reprisals. We are afraid she
will use the financial crisis,
provoked by gross
mismanagement and waste of
funds, to fire those who have
questioned some of the
managerial decisions. 2025
starts with instructions
issued by the DHC Nada Al
Nashif to extend temporary
staff only until March and fix
staff for only one year. Kim
Taylor’s underperformance was
well known in OCHA. Now staff
in OHCHR will pay.
How can such
underperformance be rewarded
with a promotion? Who else is
protecting Kim Taylor? Why is
she not held accountable? Why
is she allowed to create a
toxic climate of fear,
reprisals and intimidation?
Why is senior management not
listening to staff concerns?
Until when will member states
turn a blind eye to abuse,
corruption and waste of
taxpayers monies? Staff in New
York and Geneva are worried
for our future and those of
our families.
That's today's UN
under Guterres: pure
hypocrisy...We will have more
on this - the UN bans the
Press and refuses to answer
questions
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