Posted on 12/16/2019 8:43:20 AM PST by Olog-hai
A United Nations whistleblower is accusing the organization’s human rights office in Switzerland of continuing to provide the Chinese government with the names of activists critical of Beijing.
Emma Reilly, a UN employee who first alleged the practice in 2013, said in an Oct. 21 letter to senior U.S. diplomats and members of Congress, “The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) apparently continues to provide China with advance information on whether named human rights defenders plan to attend meetings” in Geneva. […]
The UN has flatly denied turning over the names.
Reilly, however, says she has faced retaliation by superiors at the OHCHR since filing her complaint. It was first reported on in 2017, but Reilly has not spoken with the media until now.
Undeterred by the risks of speaking out to the media, Reilly, a dual Irish/U.K. national, recently told Fox News: “Instead of taking action to stop names being handed over, the UN has focused its energy on retaliating against me for daring to report it. I have been ostracized, publicly defamed, deprived of functions, and my career has been left in tatters.”
Reilly alleges that the UN human rights office is trying to curry favor with Beijing. …
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What about u.n. trafficking in the underage girls category?
What human rights.
Same with InterPol; sketchy countries have to belong and that means it’s subject to abuse.
Some countries are controlled by drug gangs.
The formal government of Mexico —is that the REAL government, there..?
I’m not so sure.
UN: OK, here are the names of Chinese people you must definitely not harass or repress
CHINA: Umm, OK. No problem. Thanks.
Yes; all funding has to be pulled.
The UN is a shadow of the old USSR, and by extension Red China itself.
China! of course! The un is always willing to help out a repressive, communist, totalitarian regime. They don’t see the irony in being called “human rights” office.
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