| UN Rights Commish
Volker Turk Wastes Money
As Angles for Extension
as Mike Waltz on CBS
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack UN GATE,
June 22 – 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 Many thanks for exposing corruption in today's UN under Fat Tony Guterres and his cronies. Ultimate apparatchik and crony, narcissist Volker Turk has no sense of ridicule and no respect for his staff. His latest campaign “We are all terrestrials, equal under the stars†is a bad taste joke as we know Volker Turk favors and promotes his personal friends even when they are not qualified and are known for being lazy. Volker Turk new initiative to cling to the post, “the Global Alliance for Human Rights†is just a reheated version of his infamous “UDHR75â€.Millions will be wasted again at the expense of real human rights work, more colleagues (again mainly young women will be fired), careers and homes will be destroyed and field offices closed. But Volkie’s cronies will remain sucking fat salaries. Mike Waltz, did you know that OHCHR has not abolished a single senior post since the UN crisis was declared two years ago? Only junior staff gets fired. Cronies remain. How can member states allow this waste of funds? How much has Volkie’s T-Shirt cost to taxpayers? What happened to his Meditation Room? Or to his renovations to Palais Wilson that he, shamefully, had to give up after four years of financial mismanagement? Staff is tired of his double standards and hypocrisy. We all know how appointments are made in OHCHR and all senior ones can be traced to a personal connection (including appointments made by the Human Rights Council 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? 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, June 26, 2026
UN Rights Commish Volker Turk Wastes Money As Angles for Extension as Mike Waltz on CBS
