by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
UN GATE, Nov 17 – A recent ruling by the UN Appeals Tribunal shows the extent of UN corruption and censorship under Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Inner City Press has been reported on misdeed by UN official Sandi Arnold and others, since before Guterres had Inner City Press roughed up and thrown out of the UN, banned since.
As to Sandi Arnold, Inner City Press has published a number of exclusives about sexual harassment in the UN in Kosovo. Now on November 11, 2024 Arnold's appeal of the slap on the wrist doled out - written censure - including findings and her complaints against Inner City Press doing its job and reporting, and the UNAT agreeing with her on that.
The decision, which Inner City Press is publishing on its public DocumentCloud here, states that "some of the reports were unofficially disclosed to the media and published in articles by Inner City Press. Ms. Arnold requested OIOS by e-mail to take appropriate action regarding the articles published by Inner City Press."
Note that Inner City Press was roughed up and thrown out of the UN and that despite written filing with OIOS, nothing has been done: still banned.
The UNAT ruling continues: "the following facts were established: 10 (i) In 2017, Ms. Arnold gifted two colleagues ‘sex toys’, which they found inappropriate; (ii) Ms. Arnold made inappropriate sexual comments to colleagues in the work environment and socially; (iii) Ms. Arnold bullied and harassed colleagues; and (iv) One colleague was bullied to the point of considering suicide."
Tellingly, it continues that the UNDT "regretted the leak of information to Inner City Press that Ms. Arnold pointed out." Inner City Press has been blocked from UNDT online proceedings ostensibly open to the public. It concludes "Ms. Arnold’s appeal is dismissed, and Judgment No. UNDT/2023/124 is hereby affirmed."
But Inner City Press is still banned from entering the UN, and none of its written questions are answered by Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric or Melissa Fleming. An in-house UN guide for whistleblowers says, "Correspondents from the mainstream media organizations that are members of the UN Correspondents Association generally maintain a very good relationship with the UN Press Office that they will be reluctant to compromise." Totally corrupt.
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