https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Kr%C3%A4henb%C3%BChl
Pierre Krähenbühl (born 8 January 1966) is director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the organization’s second-highest-ranking position, a role he began in April 2024. He previously served as ICRC’s Director of Operations from 2002 to early 2014.[1]. . .
From March 2014 to November 2019 he served as Commissioner General for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). He resigned from his position at UNRWA on November 7, 2019 amid allegations of mismanagement; he claimed he was the victim of “dirty politics”. A subsequent internal UN investigation made public by the Swiss television channel RTS completely overturned most of these accusations.
On 29 July 2019, Al Jazeera reported that an internal UNRWA report details alleged abuses of authority among the organization’s senior management, including Krähenbühl.[9] According to Al Jazeera, the internal report says that Krähenbühl and other UNRWA leaders pose “an enormous risk to the reputation of the UN” and that “their immediate removal should be carefully considered.”[9] Krähenbühl “unreservedly” rejected the characterization of UNRWA and its senior leadership and cited the ongoing investigation by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services as preventing him from publicly responding to any allegations.[9] On 6 November 2019, the UNRWA released a statement announcing that the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) completed a part of its ongoing inquiry into UNRWA management-related matters, that its findings revealed management issues which related specifically to Krähenbühl, and that Krähenbühl ‘has stepped aside until the completion of the process’.[10] Krähenbühl then resigned.[11]. . .
Krähenbühl returned to the ICRC in May 2021 as personal envoy of the ICRC President to China. The ICRC appointed him as its next director-general in December 2023. . .
Pierre Krähenbühl is married to Taiba Rahim, who is the President of the Nai-Qala Association,[16] an organisation dedicated to health and education projects in Afghanistan. They have three sons, Bilal, Elias and Ilham.
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https://genevasolutions.news/peace-humanitarian/pierre-krahenbuhl-icrc-won-t-replace-unrwa-in-gaza
Pierre Krähenbühl: ‘ICRC won’t replace UNRWA in Gaza’
https://genevasolutions.news/peace-humanitarian/pierre-krahenbuhl-icrc-won-t-replace-unrwa-in-gaza?utm_medium=partage-social&utm_source=copylink
By Stéphane Bussard
A month into the job, the new ICRC head asserts that within a year, the organisation has managed to stabilise its finances following the elimination of 4,000 jobs. It is now essential to foster cohesion rooted in diversity, he says in an interview.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been shaken by a severe financial crisis over the past two years. Now, the Geneva-based humanitarian organisation is on a new track. As director general since the beginning of April, Pierre Krähenbühl was one of the architects of the ICRC’s new strategy: renew the focus on core activities. Previously serving as director of operations, the Genevan had left the ICRC to lead UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, from 2014 to 209, before returning in 2021 as a special envoy of the ICRC presidency to Beijing. . .
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https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-pierre-krahenbuhls-appointment-as-head-of-the-red-cross/
The core principle of the Red Cross is neutrality. Yet when he headed UNRWA, Krähenbühl demonstrated extreme bias against Israel.
On repeated occasions during his tenure, UN Watch urged Krähenbühl to end the rampant incitement to terror and antisemitism by UNRWA teachers. Yet Krähenbühl turned a blind eye. He allowed teachers of hate to incite with impunity, indoctrinating a generation of Palestinians to hate Jews.
In November 2019, Krähenbühl was forced to resign from UNRWA over allegations that he and other managers were engaged in corruption, abuse of power and ethics violations. The scandal was so damning that Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands and New Zealand at the time suspended their funding for UNRWA.
After he quit, Krähenbühl’s supporters suggested that he had been cleared of the charges, and that he had been the victim of a conspiracy between Washington, Jerusalem and a pro-Israel Swiss foreign minister. However, an investigation by Swiss newspaper Le Temps, and a former UNRWA ethics inspector, confirmed the opposite.
“Pierre Krähenbühl is married to Taiba Rahim..”
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That too..