Friday, July 10, 2026

UN Rights Commish Volker Faux Feministm Slammed As Mike Waltz Delays on FOIA



UN Rights Commish Volker Faux Feministm Slammed As Mike Waltz Delays on FOIA

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

UN GATE, July 3 – 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 todays UN. OHCHR Staff remains grateful to your bravery. Guterres’ crony Volker Turk brags about feminism while he fires young female staff.  Turk’s propaganda section shows Turk’s real face. Peggy Hicks should have retired long ago. Narcissist Peggy Hicks is just milking the UN system to grow her fat pension.

 Promoted well over level and earning a D2 salary (some 300k tax free) she is squeezing UN benefitss such as education grant and rental subsidy and turning a blind eye to reprisals to whistleblowers or to  the names of human rights defenders handled to member states for reprisals.  Maarit Sherif Kohonen, long time apparatchik, only cared about her favourite and relatives. For many years complaints against her have been filed under the dirty OHCHR carpet. Protected by all High Commissioners allegations against her husband’s fast track promotion from P1 to P4 have not been investigated.  How many useless people she was biased promoted? Let OIOS find out (fat chance). Kim Taylor, promoted to D1 by Volker Turk and Nada Al Nashif lied in her PHP but OIOS and Martha Elena Lopez do not care.  Kim Taylor is the self appointed liaison with OIOS, so fat chance she will ever be able to investigated.  It is well known Kim Taylor helped her partner, an obscure character to get a P4 in OHCHR and she has populated the office with her cronies from OCHA. This is feminism for Volker Turk (also for Guterres and Amira Haq).

 In the meantime Peggy Hicks, Kim Taylor and Maarit Kohonen denounce whistleblowers, fire young female colleagues, favor their favorites and keep milking the system. Soon we will expose how many long term OHCHR staff members have had siblings appointed by the Human Rights Council. Volker Turk sees no conflict of interests. Corruption must be exposed. The fish stinks from the head. Amb Waltz, can you keep turning a blind eye to corruption? Will you ever look into this?

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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