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Press Release: Government Accountability Project Attorneys Submit Recommendations to United Nations Internal Justice Council

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 13, 2020 Government Accountability Project Attorneys Submit Recommendations to United Nations Internal Justice Council Letter Seeks to Improve Whistleblower Protection and Internal Justice System WASHINGTON – The United Nations International Justice Council (IJC) is submitting recommendations to the General Assembly on how to improve internal justice systems within the UN, including protection for whistleblowers. Government Accountability Project was invited to submit recommendations [...]

Katrina-Meyer2020-05-13T14:16:34-04:00May 13th, 2020|International, Press release, United Nations|

Fox News: UN Human Rights Office Accused of Helping China Keep An Eye on Dissidents

Note: this article, featuring our client Emma Reilly, was originally published here. UN Human Rights Office Accused of Helping China Keep An Eye on Dissidents 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 [...]

Katrina-Meyer2019-12-17T09:50:22-05:00December 17th, 2019|In The News, International, Uncategorized, United Nations|

The Epoch Times: UN Discloses Names of Chinese Dissidents to Beijing: Whistleblower

Note: this article, featuring our client Emma Reilly and Government Accountability Project, was originally published here. UN Discloses Names of Chinese Dissidents to Beijing: Whistleblower A United Nations whistleblower has accused the organization’s human rights agency of endangering Chinese rights activists by disclosing their names to the Chinese regime. “The Office of the High Commissioner for Human [...]

Katrina-Meyer2019-12-17T09:43:26-05:00December 17th, 2019|In The News, International, United Nations|

PRESS RELEASE: UN INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION FIRES CYBER SECURITY WHISTLEBLOWER AFTER U.S. WITHDRAWS MILLIONS OVER WHISTLEBLOWER RETALIATION CONCERNS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 13, 2019 UN INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION FIRES CYBER SECURITY WHISTLEBLOWER AFTER U.S. WITHDRAWS MILLIONS OVER WHISTLEBLOWER RETALIATION CONCERNS MONTREAL - On December 13, 2019, the UN International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) fired whistleblower Vincent Smith for his disclosure that ICAO’s leadership responded inadequately to a cyber-espionage group’s breach that exposed [...]

Katrina-Meyer2019-12-13T16:26:40-05:00December 13th, 2019|International, Press release, United Nations|

What the United Nations and President Trump have in Common When it Comes to Whistleblowers

What the United Nations and President Trump have in Common When it Comes to Whistleblowers: Hostile Responses to Whistleblowers Plague the United Nations By Gabrielle Simeck and Samantha Feinstein Since a confidential intelligence community (IC) whistleblower’s complaint regarding a phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky became public, whistleblowers [...]

Gabrielle.Simeck2019-10-04T12:27:57-04:00October 4th, 2019|Blog, Uncategorized, United Nations|

UN Must Protect WIPO Whistleblower Against Retaliation

In September 2018, the US State Department reported to the Congressional Appropriations Committees that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a Specialized Agency of the United Nations (UN) System, lacks best-practice whistleblower protections. The case of whistleblower Wei Lei featured prominently in that report. Lei’s experience as a UN staff member on the receiving end of continuing [...]

Whistle.Blower2018-11-13T13:25:46-05:00November 9th, 2018|Uncategorized, United Nations|

United Nations

The United Nations is the source of fundamental international law on universal human rights to freedom of expression and access to information. GAP advocates that whistleblowers have fundamental rights consistent with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and treaties adopted by the U.N. General Assembly. GAP works to ensure that these rights are honored by the institution [...]

Whistle.Blower2018-10-26T13:12:18-04:00September 3rd, 2014|United Nations|

U.S. Congress Considers Ways to Reform the United Nations

Earlier this week, the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs held a briefing on “The United Nations: Urgent Problems that Need Congressional Action.” Some of the most urgent problems discussed during the briefing (which attracted so many audience members that it filled both the hearing and spillover rooms) were the UN’s treatment of whistleblowers and [...]

Whistle.Blower2018-10-26T13:33:18-04:00January 27th, 2011|United Nations|

First U.N. Universal Periodic Review of United States Reveals Human Rights Shortcomings

Last Friday, the United States was subjected to its first review by the United Nations Human Rights Council. The council -- which was re-formed in 2006 -- will review the human rights record of each U.N. member once every four years, offering a means for countries to set goals and receive feedback regarding their human rights [...]

Whistle.Blower2018-10-26T13:34:15-04:00November 10th, 2010|United Nations|

UN Tribunal Awards Compensation to Long-Suffering UNDP Whistleblower

Courtesy of flickr user United Nations Photo Yesterday, United Nations Dispute Tribunal Judge Memooda Ebrahim-Carstens issued a judgment in the long pending case of Artjon Shkurtaj, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) whistleblower who made much publicized disclosures regarding UNDP wrongdoing at its North Korean office. The judge ordered Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to award Shkurtaj fourteen months’ [...]

Whistle.Blower2018-10-26T13:34:49-04:00September 1st, 2010|United Nations|