8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (4)
#20124652 at 2023-12-24 17:31:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24697: The Christmas Eve Morning Edition
24 Dec, 2023 1
UN official fired for corruption takes over Red Cross
Pierre Krahenbuhl was accused of spending UN money to take his married girlfriend traveling
The Red Cross announced on Friday that Pierre Krahenbuhl will take over as director-general of the organization. Krahenbuhl previously led the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees until he was ousted amid allegations of sexual misconduct, nepotism, and other abuses of authority.
"The Assembly of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has appointed Pierre Krahenbuhl as the organization's next director-general," it said in a statement. "He is recognized as a strategic and purpose-driven leader with deep organizational experience and dedication to the ICRC."
Krahenbuhl, a Swiss national, has worked with the ICRC since 1991, and oversaw the organization's response to armed conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and other countries. He was appointed commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in 2014.
The UNRWA launched an internal investigation into alleged misconduct by Krahenbuhl in 2019. Along with other senior figures in the organization,Krahenbuhl was accused of mismanaging funds and appointing personal friends to key positions. As commissioner-general, Krahenbuhl was accused of inventing a job for his married girlfriend and using agency funds to take her on work trips with him.
The scandal exacerbated a funding crisis at UNRWA, as the US and UK dramatically cut their contributions to the agency. Krahenbuhl resigned, and was subsequently cleared of most wrongdoing.
Speaking to Swiss media following his resignation, Krahenbuhl claimed that he was a "victim of dirty politics," and blamed an unnamed US official for ginning up the allegations to force him out of the agency.
At the time, the Israeli government and the administration of former US President Donald Trump were accusing UNRWA of anti-Israel "politicization."
(Proof Red Cross is a money laundering, and Human/child trafficking organization.Optics mean nothing to them, they believe they rule the world.)
https://www.rt.com/news/589619-red-cross-un-corruption/
#7302804 at 2019-08-02 01:25:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9344: Unstoppable Movement Edition
UN chief appoints interim UNRWA head amid probe
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Thursday an interim head of the UN's Palestine agency amid a review of misconduct allegations within senior levels of the department, Anadolu Agency reports.
Guterres appointed the UN's supply chain chief, Christian Saunders, as acting UNRWA director to "ensure operational continuity," the UN said in a statement.
Saunders began his career in the UN at UNRWA in 1989.
Guterres urged member states and other UNRWA contributors to "continue their support for the crucial work performed by the Agency" after Netherlands and Switzerland suspended their contributions after an internal ethics review found misconduct within the agency, most seriously within the agency's senior team including its commissioner-general, Pierre Krahenbuhl.
Al-Jazeera published the report's findings Monday.
It suggests UNRWA's inner circle, including Krahenbuhl, Deputy Commissioner-General Sandra Mitchell - who left her post in late July, Chief of Staff Hakam Shahwan - who departed in early July and Senior Adviser to the Commissioner-General, Maria Mohammedi, be considered for removal from the agency.
The report asserts they "have engaged in misconduct, nepotism, retaliation" as well as "other abuses of authority."
Established in 1949, UNRWA is engaged in relief and human development works supporting nearly 6 million registered Palestinian refugees.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190801-un-chief-appoints-interim-unrwa-head-amid-probe/
#7279684 at 2019-07-31 18:57:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9314: Afternoon Delightshift. Meme Something Dig Something Edition
July 31, 2019 at 12:50 pm
Switzerland and the Netherlands have frozen funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) after an internal report alleging sexual misconduct and corruption among the agency's top officials was leaked to the press.
Switzerland yesterday announced that it would suspend its funding to UNRWA, with the Swiss Foreign Ministry writing in an email to Agence France Presse (AFP) that though it had already made its annual contribution of 22.3 million Swiss francs ($22.5 million) to the refugee agency, any additional donations would be suspended.
Meanwhile the Netherlands - which donates around $15 million annually to UNRWA - also announced yesterday that it would suspend its financial contributions to the agency. Netherlands' Minister for International Aid, Sigrid Kaag, told Dutch broadcaster NOS that the suspension would remain in force "until we get satisfactory answers" about the allegations detailed in the file.
The damning report, leaked to the international press on Monday, alleged that senior officials "have engaged in sexual misconduct, nepotism, retaliation, discrimination and other abuses of authority [...] for personal gain, to suppress legitimate dissent, and to otherwise achieve their personal objectives, jeopardizing the credibility and interests of the agency".
The report named UNRWA Commissioner General Pierre Krahenbuhl, as well as his "inner circle" comprised of Deputy Sandra Mitchell, Chief of Staff Hakam Shahwan and senior adviser Maria Mohammedi.
Krahenbuhl is alleged to have been involved in a relationship with Mohammedi, for whom he reportedly created the position of senior adviser within UNRWA, fast-tracking her appointment and enabling her to travel with him extensively on business.
A probe into the report's findings has now been launched by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS).
READ: Austria donates $2.1m for UNRWA health services
Following the emergence of the report, US Special Representative for International Negotiations, Jason Greenblatt, and former US envoy to the UN, Nikki Haley, were quick to criticise UNRWA and its officials. Greenblatt slammed the agency's model as "broken, unsustainable and based on an endless[ly] expanding [number] of beneficiaries," while Haley claimed that "this is exactly why [the administration of US President Donald Trump] stopped [UNRWA's] funding".
Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, has since joined these critics, calling on the international community to defund UNRWA altogether. "The report reveals alarming, but not surprising, findings," Danon claimed, adding that "in addition to propagating false information about its refugee population, UNRWA has in recent years worked to redirect world funds to continue this corruption industry that has served its leadership."
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon in New York, US on 24 July 2018 [EuropaNewswire/Gado/Getty Images]
He continued: "The international community, which generously finances UNRWA, must immediately suspend the budgets assigned to the agency. The aid money should be gradually transferred to the UNHCR [UN High Commissioner for Refugees] instead of helping the UNRWA leadership continue engaging in a series of ethical offenses."
UNRWA: Situation in Gaza moving from 'bad to worse'
Danon has long been a fierce critic of UNRWA. In May, the UN Security Council held a special session on UNRWA, during which Danon slammed the agency for "empowering the refugee problem for years, instead of trying to solve it while adopting a unilateral political position".
"The organization's schools have been transformed into terror and incitement infrastructures, with textbooks distributed on the ground denying Israel's existence," he continued, adding that "UNRWA failed to rehabilitate the Gaza Strip and succeeded only in inciting violence against the State of Israel."
"UNRWA's mandate must come to an end," Danon concluded.
Danon was also a vocal supporter of the Trump administration's 2018 decision to defund UNRWA. In January of that year, the US announced it would only give the agency half of the aid it had planned to donate, before declaring in August it would "end funding altogether".
Speaking in January, Danon praised the funding cuts, saying that "UNRWA has proven time and again to be an agency that misuses the humanitarian aid of the international community and instead supports anti-Israel propaganda, perpetuates the plight of Palestinian refugees and encourages hate."
Photo Essay: Life as a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon
Sause: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190731-switzerland-netherlands-freeze-unrwa-funding-following-leaked-report/
#7241595 at 2019-07-29 14:14:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9265: Will The Trap Be Sprung This Week? Edition
Ethics report says U.N. figures abused authority for private gain
July 29 (UPI) – A leaked internal ethics report within the United Nations' Palestinian relief agency accuses some members of its senior management team of abusing their authority for personal gain.
The U.N. Relief and Works Agency report said an "inner circle" in the organization's top ranks also abused authority "to suppress legitimate dissent and to otherwise achieve their personal objectives," Al Jazeera reported Monday.
The report from the UNRWA ethics office named Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl, former deputy Sandra Mitchell, former chief of staff Hakam Shahwan and senior adviser Maria Mohammedi among those involved.
The report was sent to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres months ago, but there has been little movement on the issue, Al Jazeera's report said.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/07/29/Ethics-report-says-UN-figures-abused-authority-for-private-gain/7471564398310/?sl=4