We the People: The United Nations Whistleblowers
REVIEWS, 18 Nov 2024
Jørgen Johansen | Irene Publishing – TRANSCEND Media Service
Whistleblowing & Retaliation in the UN
We the People: The United Nations Whistleblowers–Whistleblowing & Retaliation in the UN, edited by Caroline Hunt-Matthes, Irene Publishing, ISBN 9789188061768, Sep 2024, 331 pp.
Hunt-Matthes and the contributors present compelling evidence of the harmful retaliatory practices that hinder human progress and ultimately the pivotal work of the United Nations. The authors peel back the veneer of international diplomacy to reveal an omnipresent truth insulated in a code of silence–that universal human rights appear not to apply to the UN’s own staff members if they blow the whistle–a duty of all international civil servants.
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Jørgen Johansen is a nonviolence author/activist, editor of Irene Publishing, and a member of the TRANSCEND Network from Norway living amongst the trees in Southern Sweden. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Resistance Studies and coordinator of the Nordic Nonviolence Study Group, or NORNONS. After 40 years of work in more than 100 countries he has settled and is inspired by Cicero: “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Tags: History, Literature, Reviews, United Nations, Whistleblowing
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