| UN Volker Turk
Collaborated in Banning
Press Now Staff Says He
Strong Arms to Relocate
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
May 30 – 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 says basta to abuse
by corrupt senior management.
Two weeks ago High
Commissioner Volker Turk and
his chief of operations Maarit
Kohonen, unable to control her
anger, openly threatened us
“accept relocation or be
fired”. Yesterday, in another
pointless townhall we made
clear to Volker Turk that we
will not accept barbaric
threats.
Yesterday Kohonen
was nowhere to be seen to
avoid more damage. The truth
is that is that UN80 in OHCHR
is a smokescreen to cover
years of financial
mismanagement. The truth is
that OHCHR is run by
incompetent senior management
that only care about giving
jobs to their friends and
relatives (soon a detailed
report on this) while threaten
staff with relocation or
dismissal. OHCHR staff says
BASTA. We are not in the same
boat as Volker Turk who will
leave in one year to a cozy
pension or to another post by
his protector Guterres. Turk’s
2.0 iniciative, has been a
fiasco and a waste of funds in
consultancies and irrelevant
positions for cronies. Turk
announced his 2.0 will be
merged with UN80.
We demand the
resignation of Volker Turk,
Nada al Nashif, Maarit
Kohonen, Kim Taylor and all
senior management and an
independent investigation by
member states on the
corruption and financial
mismanagement in OHCHR. The UN
needs reform not threats.
Relocation is not the
solution. Dismissals are not
the solution. We are not
afraid anymore of threats
although selective termination
of contracts has already
started. The staff and our
families cannot become the
victims of incompetent and
nepotistic senior management.
We will resist with all
available means and we will
prevail." 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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