Not a very good prospect according to this National Journal article:
But the United Nations isn’t an American bureaucracy, and it has its own ways of dealing with whistle-blowers. Mostly, it fires them. Almost all U.N. staff members work under contracts of two years or less, and they carry no legal assurance of renewal. An angry supervisor need only wait for the rebellious staff member’s contract to lapse, and then not renew it. And although a supervisor’s retaliation for whistle-blowing is officially prohibited under U.N. rules, enforcement comes only in the form of penalties against the offending supervisor — not job reinstatement forthe whistle-blower.
The article has some interesting sad stories about the Kofi-ocracy. [Are you going to talk about transparency again?-ed. No, I promise, I promise.]
(hat tip: Catherine Johnson – I hope you bought her book already. It’s terrific.)
Reading through this article … somebody help me understand this – just how can a volunteer be paid? My understanding of a volunteer is that this person is giving their own time, without financial compensation, out of pure heart for a cause they strongly believe in.
Lola:
I was a volunteer for a non profit and they “compensated” me.
I heard about this on the news. It seems the UN had a lot more warning of the food for oil scandal than they wanted to admit and they just got rid of the guy for pointing the problems out to them.
I hear the US may give him immunity and try to use his information to prosecute.
We shall see.
Lola,
It’s easy to misunderstand the term, but volunteer does not necessarily mean uncompensated. For example, the Armed Forces are all volunteer, but are certainly paid for their sacrifices.