Geneva-based human rights organization
under the aegis of United Nations Watch has called for a greater accountability
at the world body, reports ITRealms.
ITRealms
recalls that the recent resignation of a top UN rights official who
admitted she did nothing after receiving reports of child rape by French
soldiers in Central African Republic due to budget cut distraction.
A press statement made available to
ITRealms, the executive director of UN Watch, Hillel Neuer, noted that the
outcome of the resignation underscored the dire need for greater accountability
at the world body.
Neuer also said that not only did
Deputy UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Flavia Pansieri failed to act on
getting the alert, "but she was part of a coterie of top UN officials who
punished the only member of her office who sounded the alarm, veteran staffer
Anders Kompass, by firing him.
"The message heard loud and
clear throughout the world body was that speaking out against the banality of
bureaucratic complicity with evil will kill one's career, that it's better to
stay silent," the UN Watch said.
Therefore, UN Watch emphasized that
Ms. Pansieri is in fact resigning over her office's shameful inaction,
indifference and cover-up concerning the rape of children by peacekeepers, then
today marks a small step toward greater accountability for malfeasance by UN
officials."
"In this episode, as in many
others throughout the UN, minimal levels of scrutiny and acceptance of
responsibility is desperately required," Neuer said.
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