| UN is Asked Why Promoted
Sexual Harasser in Gaza But No
Response Nor From USUN Series
UN GATE,
July 6 รข€“ UN staff
have raised to Inner City
Press the case of an UN system
official serially promoted,
from positions in Cameroon to
South Sudan to now in Gaza,
despite a history of sexual
harassments.
Inner City Press has asked UN
Spokesperson Stephane
Dujarric, his deputy Farhan
Haq and MALU chief Melissa
Fleming, as well as SG Antonio
Guterres, about the case, and
the promotion - particularly
now to Gaza. At the
July 6 UN noon briefing, after
Inner City Press emailed the
question with the name, there
were 11 references to Gaza in
the briefing - none to this. The UN is
ostensibly a public
institution, and without
questions pays itself and the
official at issue with public
taxpayers' money. We are asked
about the name and the clock
is ticking. As the UN moves
now in the second half of 2026
to pick a new Secretary
General, as its last one
Antonio Guterres fails on
Ukraine, Gaza and basic
transparency, a book is out. It is "United
Nations Betrayals: From
Election Stolen by Guterres to
Bribes and Banning of the
Press," by Matthew Russell Lee
(who quickly discloses that he
has been ousted and banned
from the UN by Guterres, for
his reporting). A noted
by New York Magazine on Lee's
Maximum Maxwell book,
at times here he uses the
character Kurt Wheelock, who
first appeared in his
Predatory Bender.
The book
begins with Guterres beating
out female candidates for the
UNSG post, after a murky year
being paid by Lisbon-based
Gulbenkian Foundation. The
book digs into the bid by the
China Energy Fund Committee,
convicted of UN bribery, for
Gulbenkian's oil company.
Readers can draw their own
conclusion, including on the
need for SG campaign finance
disclosure in 2026. Part of
the book in italics delves
into the UN Correspondents
Association and its efforts to
throw Lee out. They appear
again in the afterword /
novella, "Whacking Qaddafi,"
which was first mentioned in
the New Yorker magazine's Talk of
the Town piece about
Lee. It addresses more
countries: from India to
Pakistan, Guinea to Guinea
Bissau. The main text addresses UN failures in Sri Lanka - including the UNCA connection - Cameroon, Western Sahara, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, Gaza and elsewhere. UN Betrayals indeed - this should be the first of a series.
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