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UN WHISTLEBLOWERS have joined forces in demanding that the organisation change a global system they say deters employees from exposing crime, corruption and other wrongdoing.
In a letter sent to secretary-general Ban Ki Moon on Wednesday, nine current and former UN workers said that current policies offered “little to no measure of real or meaningful protection” from retaliation that can include sacking, harassment and intimidation.
Miranda Brown, the chief of the east and southern Africa section of the UN human-rights office, said that within days of being called to testify in a major investigation of a UN agency where she had alleged wrongdoing, she was told that her contract would not be renewed.
Huge protests against corruption and preventable deaths during flooding have rocked the government — the masses are not likely to be able to take direct control in their own interests yet, writes KENNY COYLE, but it’s a promising show of people power
Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA