Some fun facts and the UN

The UN as seen by the Clinton Administration:
The Clinton Administration has announced it will use its veto power, if necessary, to stop the reappointment of United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to a second five-year term. The United Nations is a bureaucratic swamp of corruption and mismanagement, according to a recent report.
The overpaid bureaucracy has grown to 50,000 worldwide -- not counting nearly 10,000 consultants and, at its height in 1993, 80,000 peacekeeping troops.
• Tax-free salaries are often double comparable private-sector pay in New York City and payroll costs consume at least 70 percent of its operating budget.
• But Boutros-Ghali estimates that half the employees do nothing useful.
• The others are used inefficiently -- such as 500 stenographers who type dictated versions of translated documents, when the translators could do it themselves on computers.
Aid money is often lost or stolen and dozens of agencies duplicate efforts.
For example,
• In Somalia, $369,000 was paid for fuel distribution services a contractor did not provide, and a relief project director pocketed $100,000 of agency money.
• The U.N. Children's Fund lost $10 million to mismanagement in Kenya.
• Nearly $4 million in cash was stolen from U.N. headquarters in Somalia.
Many of the problems stem from the structure of the U.N. Each of the 185 member-nations has one General Assembly vote, allowing Third World countries to dominate.
• The U.N.'s $10.5 billion annual budget has never been independently audited.
• The United States alone is assessed a contribution of 25 percent of the U.N.'s general budget and 31 percent to its peacekeeping budget.
• But in 1992, a majority of members contributed a combined total of less than 1 percent of the general budget, while 14 members contributed 84 percent.
Some U.N. critics recommend a comprehensive, independent audit of the U.N., followed by drastic downsizing and reform, including privatization of many agencies. Others favor the U.S. just getting out.
Source: Stefan Halper, "A Miasma of Corruption: The United Nations at 50," Policy Analysis No. 253, April 30, 1996, Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001, (202) 842-0200.
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But then if Clinton was aware of all this ( and he was) why did Clinton fire our top budget analyst at the U.N., Linda Shenwick. Many think it was because she was telling Congress about U.N. corruption and the billions of dollars they were funneling off into private accounts (stealing), and Madeline Allbright didn't want her to speak out. .

Shenwick told the Congress that the U.N. itself doesn't want to reform. There is too much money at plan for the corrupt stakeholders. In 1995 Clinton knew that the U.N. Peace Keepers were being sent to Africa WITH AIDS. And the peacekeepers were known to be deeply entrenched in the sex and slave trade.
Please see this link: uspolitics.tribe.net/thread/...fb25d537
Linda Shenwick Told the Clinton Administration this. "They did nothing to deal with that problem," she said. "They only recognized and began talking about the problem one year ago" in early 2000. Linda Shenwick reported that Madeleine Albright ordered her team at the UN to keep these things secret using the words: "Don't go out of the room with this."
Noting that the U.N. is spending millions of dollars supposedly to fight the AIDS epidemic, Shenwick said one solution might be for the U.N. to stop sending AIDS-infected soldiers around the world. She added that, "Our troops that served with them were put at risk" and that "The United Nations is probably responsible for introducing AIDS into Cambodia." Indeed, a documentary making this claim has been produced by a group in Sweden.
www.globalpolicy.org/securit...ids2.htm

“WELCOME TO RAPE CAMP”
By Donna M, Huges, Univ., of Rhode Island, Journal of Sexual Aggresion Vol.6, Winter 2000.
A study of Cambodian and Asian sexual torture and enslavement for pleasure and profit that was made substantially worse by the presence of UN Peace Keepers because of their active participation.
www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/h...rape_camp.pdf




Shenwick said at a whistleblowers conference (yah there really are such things) "The United Nations has very, very shoddy management practices," Her superiors at the Clinton Administration confirmed her statements. However they warned her against telling Congress. Clinton ordered her to shut up because it didn't serve the interests of the Clinton Administration. Linda Shenwick’s job performance was rated as outstanding on a regular bases until after she reported UN corruption to Congress. After that Clinton people submarined her. They tried to isolate her in some dead end hole in VA where she’d have been out of sight out of mind.


In 2007 UN peacekeeping troops were trading in gold and selling weapons to Congolese militia groups they were meant to disarm.
www.globalpolicy.org/securit...aded.htm

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“In Haiti, the BBC's Mike Williams spoke to a street girl as young as 11 who had reported sexual abuse by peacekeepers outside the gates of the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince. A 14-year-old described her abduction and rape inside a UN naval base in the country two years ago. Despite detailed medical and circumstantial evidence, the allegation was dismissed by the UN for lack of evidence - and the alleged attacker returned to his home country.
In Liberia, meanwhile, a 15-year-old said she had been attacked by a UN officer on 15 November. In May this year, another BBC investigation discovered systematic abuse in Liberia, involving food being given out to teenage refugees in return for sex.
The UN responded by heightening policing measures, appointing 500 monitors across the country, and introducing mandatory training of all personnel on appropriate conduct. A local NGO worker said reports of sexual abuse involving peacekeepers were "still rampant, despite pronouncements that they have been curbed".
www.globalpolicy.org/securit...buse.htm
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Congo the final straw
The problem is, indeed, pervasive. Over the years, accusations have arisen in Cambodia, Mozambique, Somalia, Bosnia, Sierra Leone, East Timor, and Kosovo. Alleged offenses include sex-trafficking, prostitution rings, rapes, pedophilia, even abandoning "peacekeeper babies." But the final straw was Congo, where, among other abuses, Moroccan and Uruguayan peacekeepers were accused of luring teenage girls into sex in exchange for bananas, cakes, and other food.
Meanwhile, the UN confirmed last month it was investigating credible charges of violations within its Liberian mission, and pursuing other investigations in Haiti and Ivory Coast. While an overwhelming majority of peacekeepers conduct their duties without incident, the UN says, wherever the UN has planted its flag in recent years, violations of women seem to follow. One reason, say observers, is that UN troops are typically sent to conflict zones thousands of miles from home. They're generally well-paid, but surrounded by poverty. In a stressful environment, the outlet for some is alcohol, drugs, and sex.
Lawlessness in the countries where peacekeepers are operating may convince them "they, too, can get away with things they can't get away with back in their country," says former UN official Edward Luck, of Columbia University. Another factor may be the fact their home countries neither prosecute gender-based violence nor respect the rights of women.
www.globalpolicy.org/securit...buse.htm
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Sex Abuse by UN Civilian Employees
Harder to Stop Than That of Troops
www.globalpolicy.org/securit...lian.htm

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But the problem goes beyond Kosovo and sex trafficking. Wherever the UN has established operations in recent years, various violations of women seem to follow:
** A prostitution ring in Bosnia involved peacekeepers, while Canadian troops there were accused of beatings, rape, and sexually abusing a handicapped girl.
** Local UN staff in West Africa reportedly withheld aid, such as bags of flour, from refugees in exchange for sexual favors.
** Jordanian peacekeepers in East Timor were accused of rape.
Italian troops in Somalia and Bulgarian troops in Cambodia were accused of sexual abuses.
** In May, Moroccan and Uruguayan peacekeepers in Congo were accused of luring teenage girls into their camp with offers of food for sex. The girls then fed the banana and cake remuneration to their infants, whom media reported had been born as a result of multiple rapes by militiamen.
www.globalpolicy.org/securit...aunt.htm
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