Nobel Prize for Navi Pillay After Sri Lanka Work Shows UN Decay Under Censor Guterres
| Nobel
Prize for Navi Pillay
After Sri Lanka Work
Shows UN Decay Under
Censor Guterres
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack UN GATE,
Oct 9 â The award of the Nobel
Peace Prize to Navi Pillay
shows just how far the UN has
fallen under outgoing
Secretary General Antonio
Guterres.
Pillay was UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights,
and while some (including
Inner City Press, then a UN
Resident Correspondent) criticized
her for not attending the
Nobel ceremony for China
dissident Liu Xiaobo, she did
some actual work. Take for
example her refusal to side
with the Secretary General at
the time, Ban Ki-moon, on
covering up war crimes by Sri
Lanka's Rajapaksa government.
Inner City Press interviewed
her about it, here,
and ran afoul of her for reporting
on what staff told Inner City
Press was human rights
cronyism (yes, it's a thing)
with Jessica Neuwirth. Still,
Pillay stood up to Ban Ki-moon
on his ludicrous nomination of
Sri Lanka's Shavendra Silva to
a UN Peacekeeping post, which
Inner City Press reported on
even amid threats to be
sanctioned for staking
out UN meetings. Then as
now the UN Correspondents
Association far from standing
up to threats to reporting
backed it, with a reported Sri
Lanka conflict of interest. Beyond Sri
Lanka, Pillay acted on, and
spoke to the Press about,
Sudan and South Sudan, Syria
and Libya, here. When it
came time to replace Pillay,
Inner City Press reported on: "Asma
Jahangir and Hina Jilani, who
was also a candidate against
Pillay in 2008.
There is also Prince Zeid of
Jordan, now leaving his
longtime post as his country's
Ambassador to the UN, and
Nobel prize winner Jose
Ramos-Horta. Inner City
Press on
May 9 asked the UN about
Jose Ramos-Horta,
moonlighting for UBrain.tv
while serving as UN enovy in
Guinea Bissau. The UN
has yet to answer.
Other names in circulation
include Indonesia's
Marzuki Darusman, who has
worked on Sri Lanka and
more recently North
Korea.
Current UN Human Rights
official in New York Ivan
Simonovic, now working
on a new report on Ukraine
including the Odessa
killings by June 17,
seems star-crossed by
geography."
Ultimately Zeid got the job
and while affable, has never
done anything as Inner City
Press was first stripped of
its Resident Correspondent's
pass, then roughed
up and ousted under
Antonio Guterres. Guterres,
true to his mediocre
administration of yes-men and
-women, has installed and
recently as a lame duck
extended his one time pencil
pushing staffer Volker Turk.
Can one even imagine, even
with the problems in Oslo, any
of these non-entities getting
a peace prize? It would
be hard to imagine the Next
SG, whoever they are, being
worse that Guterres. But will
they end
UN censorship - and
Volker Turk's wan tenure? From OHCHR
staff - "Dear Matthew Russell
Lee, Many thanks for exposing
corruption in the UN... 3-Creation of a network of patronage and cronyism in OHCHR 4-Gross mismanagement of funds including misuse of earmarked funds and abuse of overhead trough doggy cost recovery malpractices to use field funds for HQ posts. 5-Promote his favorites 6-Waste of millions of dollars of tax payers funds in useless initiatives like UDHR75 or Global Alliance for HR while young staff are being decimated in OHCHR. 7-Making OHCHR bureaucratic and irrelevant. 8-Being reelected in a fraudulent manner by the SG. Will Amb
Waltz and Amb Steggerda hold
SG candidates accountable and
force them to seriously look
into OHCHR mismanagement? For now, doesn't
look like it. Inner City Press
remains banned from the UN,
despite July 25, 2026 application,
and its questions are not
being answered... Watch this
site.
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