| UN Rights Commish
Volker Turk Sells Out
OHCHR As Mike Waltz
Delays on FOIA
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack UN GATE,
June 29 – 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 Matthew Russell Lee, Many thanks for exposing corruption in UN under Antonio Guterres and his cronies like Volker Turk We know that you care for human rights and for the realUN. We are appalled by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk who for the last four years has remained silent about serious human rights violations while being obsessed with others. Nothing illustrates Volker Turk’s double moral than his flagrant silence about the human rights situation in China. During the last four years Turk has produced zero reports, conducted zero investigations, neglected victims and merely issued 5 tweets.It is not only that Volker Turk is selective and biased. The Chinese government has bought his silence by pumping money into a bankrupted OHCHR. Since Turk was appointed High Commissioner in October 2022, China has donated to OHCHR, 4.9 million USD in 2025, 7m in 2024, 4 m in 2023. That is 16 million during Volker Turk’ mandate. During Michelle Bachelet’s mandate China gave a total of 4 million (1m, 0,8 m and 1,2m and 1 m), that is four time less and after a big fallout over that Xinjiang report. [Then she backpedaled, and now grovels - watch June 30 at 3:40 pm] Turk has not only refused to criticize China, he has placed Chinese nationals in strategic posts in the HR Council, favored those who applauded his appeasement with cozy jobs in Vienna, marginalize those who criticized his silent, dismiss whistleblowers who revealed that OHCHR has handed names of sources to the Chinese authorities and favoured the Chinese goverment agenda. Volker Turk, after four years, has proven to be guided by a personal agenda rather than by principles. His only goal is to be renewed as High Commissioner for another four years term (something unprecedented). During his term OHCHR has become a shadow of what it once was under principled leader like Mary Robinson, Louise Arbour or Zeid al Hussein. He has turned OHCHR into a financial ruin and the laughing stock of the human rights community. It is shocking how little member states care or maybe it is convenient for them to have a weak High Commissioner rather than a proper one. Please help us to expose the truth and to save OHCHR before it is destroyed. Happy World Whistleblowers Day! Amb Waltz, the
ball is on your court." Fat chance. So far,
nothing from Mike Waltz,
previously seen skydiving in
France then on a lone Sunday
show on CBS, unannounced -
self-booked? Now he has
blithely signed the UN
Charter. July 4, will he be on
the ships in the harbor or
paying on the UN roof? Delays
on FOIA. Meanwhile both Big
Tony and Amina junketed on
April 15 to the IMF which
Inner City Press is accredited
to cover, and at which it
asked questions - but not of
Tony, as UNCTAD denied Inner
City Press to its "side
event." The UN is dying, or
being killed off. There's a new
NextSG candidate, Maria
Fernanda Espinosa. Two days
ago she and her sponsor
Antigua and Barbuda were sent
a questionnaire about about
this. So far, nothing. Watch
this site. Inner City Press
re-applied to re-enter the UN
on June 19, 2025 - no answer
at all from Melissa Fleming,
Tel Mekel, Stephane Dujarric
for six months, then a denial
with no reason at all given.
Today's UN is corrupt.
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Friday, July 3, 2026
UN Rights Commish Volker Turk Sells Out OHCHR As Mike Waltz Delays on FOIA
