Peter Gallo discusses how his investigations into corruption at the United Nations were stymied at every turn. Investigators must wait 21 days before traveling abroad. Mr. Gallo was threatened with contract non-renewal for asking questions that were not pre-approved. Investigations are thwarted by the siloing of departments at the UN, where investigators lack inter-department authority. There is no investigatory authority at the UN’s Human Rights Commission.

Worse than monetary mismanagement is that the misuse of UN coffers may be propping up dictators. For instance, the UN spent $100 million at the Damascus Four Seasons which was run by a crony of Bashar al-Assad. Such expenditures cause local inflation to spiral out of control. UN officials have an incentive to aggrandize strife because they receive first-world compensation in places where the costs of living are extremely inexpensive.

This fascinating podcast discusses issues such as:

• UN peacekeepers may stage or fabricate skirmishes at least once a month so as to receive danger pay.
• The UN charter has no amendment mechanism and there is no mechanism for member states to leave the UN.
• Approximately 50 countries pay minimum United Nations dues of $55,000 per annum.
• UN peacekeepers enjoy functional immunity and proving crimes committed by UN forces is nearly impossible.
• The UN has taken many unsavory actions. For instance, Saudi Arabia was recently elected to the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women. Also, the UN rejected debate on China’s treatment of Uyghurs and actually informed China of the identity of Uyghur human rights activists.

Guest Speaker: Peter Gallo served as an investigator in the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services and is now the Director of Hear Their Cries, a privately funded NGO established specifically to hold the UN accountable for its willful blindness towards the estimated 60,000 women and children raped by UN personnel over the last 10 years.