| UN Fake Justice System Tees Up
Anonymized Appeals In UNHQ Press Banned From
Waltz Silent
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack UN GATE,
June 21 – The corruption and
waste of the United Nations
under Antonio Guterres
continues to spread. While
Guterres invokes legal
immunity for peacekeepers who
rape those they are supposed
to protect, this week will
show the results of his fake
justice system, in a UN he ban
the Press from: "The oral
pronouncement of the Outcome
of the UNAT Judgments rendered
during the Summer Session will
be held on Thursday, 25 June." His UNDT
already banned Inner City
Press even from virtual
access, after it showed how it
look the side one of Guterres
many sexual harassers. Among
this week's list: Case 2025-2083
through 2025-2087:
Bourrel-McKinnon v.
International Seabed
Authority. Four cases
consolidated in one appellate
proceeding — an extraordinary
number — involving Marie
Bourrel-McKinnon, the former
Chief of Staff of the
International Seabed Authority
who has spoken publicly about
ISA's governance failures at a
time when the Authority has
been under intense scrutiny
for its role in regulating —
or failing to regulate —
deep-sea mining.
Bourrel-McKinnon joined ISA in
2017, was elevated to Senior
Policy Advisor and Special
Assistant to the
Secretary-General at the P-5
level, had her post
reclassified upward to D-1
Chief of Staff in November
2023, and then had her
fixed-term appointment
terminated. She has brought
cases involving the
termination of her
appointment, the
reclassification of her post,
an amendment to an
administrative instruction she
argues was adopted in abuse of
authority to harm her, and
structural concerns about how
ISA handled her employment.
Inner City Press has published
scoops on corruption at the
Seabed Authority - and asked
the UN Spokesperson. No
answer. Cases 2025-2059
and 2025-2060:
Secretary-General v.
Samandarov and
Secretary-General v.
Samarasinha. In both cases,
the Secretary-General is the
appellant — meaning UN staff
members won their cases at the
Dispute Tribunal, and now the
UN is asking the Appeals
Tribunal to reverse those
wins. Sanaka Samarasinha is a
Sri Lankan lawyer, journalist,
and senior international civil
servant who served as UN
Resident Coordinator in the
Pacific from 2018 to 2023,
holding the rank of the
Secretary-General's personal
representative across ten
Pacific island
nations. Cases 2025-2076
(AAM) and 2025-2079 (ABO).
Both anonymous. The UN uses
initials rather than names in
cases that involve sexual
harassment, retaliation for
reporting misconduct, or
similarly sensitive personal
matters. Whether these are
whistleblower retaliation
cases, sexual harassment
cases, or something else
entirely, we don't know yet.
Can we follow up? Guterres has
tried to make it as difficult
as possible. And his
successor? Cases
2025-2053 and 2025-2061: Two
UNRWA cases. Tamer Shafiq Sous
and Amal Hammoud are both
appealing decisions by the
UNRWA Commissioner-General." UNRWA, of course, is asserting immunity and impunity in the SDNY, which Inner City Press covers closely because it actually has laws. Today's UN doesn't. How much is it charging to rent its roof / terrace to USUN's Mike Waltz for a 4th of July fireworks boondoggle? And is that all it takes to avoid actual reform? Watch this site.
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UN Fake Justice System Tees Up Anonymized Appeals In UNHQ Press Banned From Waltz Silent
