The UN should not secretly endanger people who approach it for support.
That statement should not be controversial. It got me fired from the UN Human Rights Office.
My name is Emma Reilly, and since 2013 I have reported a secret UN policy of providing the Chinese government with the names of human rights advocates who engage with UN human rights mechanisms.
Because there is no freedom of information and no external oversight of the UN, the public has no way of knowing how the UN actually operates. Occasional scandals attract press attention, but then there is silence until the next one. So, on this site, I am releasing the documents demonstrating the UN’s decades-long cover-up of its policy of providing the government of China with advance information on which human rights advocates plan to give evidence to UN human rights mechanisms.
Member states must act to clean up the UN. The ambitions of the Charter can only be met by a UN that considers itself part of the rules-based international order it is supposed to protect. Reforms of the UN Administration are not a nice afterthought on which member states can focus once world peace is achieved – they are a necessary condition for the UN to be able to fulfil any of the promise of the UN Charter.