| UN Volker Turk
Collaborated in Banning
Press Now He Blames Failures
on DC Staff Say Quit
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
May 16 – How corrupt and
decrepit has the UN system
become under Antonio Guterres,
in this case due to Guterres?
Today's example is again from
the Office of the High
Commission for Human Rights,
to which Guterres appointed
his unqualified crony Volker
Turk more than two years ago.
From OHCHR
staff: Dear Mr Lee, The staff
in OHCHR is demanding the
resignation of High
Commissioner Volker Turk,
Guterres crony, deputy high
commissioner Nada Al Nashif,
corrupt chief of
administration Kim Taylor and
all the senior
management. Yesterday
Volker Turk called for a
townhall to explain the
disastrous financial situation
blaming the US and Donald
Trump when the reality is that
OHCHR already had a 60 million
USD deficit in January 2025
due to ample mismanagement by
HC, DHC and senior management
the previous 2 years. Volker
Turk gave no answers and
Taylor and the new chief of
operations, Maarit Kohonen,
aggressively attacked staff
who dared to ask what the
plans are.
Even the staff
committee is afraid of
reprisals. The reality
is that there is no plan. The
only plan is for the senior
management to stay in Geneva
giving jobs to their friends
and cronies while firing staff
and sending 900 of us to
non-existing offices like
Vienna (where Turk comes from)
or Damascus. The reality
is that OHCHR senior
management is crippled with
corruption and nepotism (more
to follow on this). While
those responsible for resource
mobilization are absent and
not accountable (led by an
invisible former UNHCR crony)
the staff is spendable. Those
in charge of resource
mobilization have failed year
after year but they are not
accountable as they are
personal acquaintances of
Volker Turk and Nada Al
Nashif. No one care about the
impact of moving for the staff
and our families. No one cares
about engagement with member
states or NGOs. No one cares
about the UN human rights
instruments. Senior management
can threaten the staff but we
are losing the fear to speak
up. We care about OHCHR.
Volker Turk and all his senior
management must resign before
they destroy OHCHR." This is
the UN of Guterres.
Turk as a staffer
on Guterres' 38th floor did
nothing when his boss Guterres
had the critical Press roughed
up and thrown out. There
has been no due process since,
not even a response to Guterres'
Melissa Fleming to a pro bono inquiry
for Inner City Press from the
law firm Quinn Emanuel. Some
human righters.
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