Sir Ray Avery is a pharmaceutical scientist with vast experience working in the world’s poorest nations. He recently penned three articles on Linked In regarding his experience with the World Health Organization and why we must reject the international health legislation they are planning to pass at the next World Health Assembly in May 2024.
MY WHO EXPERIENCE PART ONE
NOT OFF TO A GOOD START
My first encounter with WHO representatives was when I was attending an International Blindness prevention conference in Bangkok in 1993.
At the end of the first day of the conference I was invited to go for drinks with some WHO staff in the bar of the hotel we were staying at.
After a few drinks the ensembled group decided to try out a few local bars and eventually we ended up in Patpong and the WHO guys convinced me to go into a bar with “live entertainment.”
It was a terrible scene with the WHO guys in their suites having girls sitting on their laps and fondling their nether regions.
I managed to defect these advances by saying I wanted the mamasan who was the manager of the bar and probably the wrong side of sixty and we had “both been there and done that” and we sat and watched the terrible moral contradiction of these WHO staff.
Earlier in the day one of the WHO staff told me of the work the WHO was doing in the prevention of trafficking in Thailand and there he was groping this young Thai girl.
No one noticed me leave the bar and sadly over the years this was one of many events where I observed WHO staff and members of NGO organisations using prostitutes and abusing their positions to abuse local women and young boys.
In May 21, 2023. WHO officials said that progress was being made in efforts to respond to sexual misconduct but acknowledged that abuse by WHO staff “remained problematic.” https://lnkd.in/g7-GrVR6
Last year WHO spent nearly $192 million on international travel with staffers breaking the agency’s own rules by traveling in business class, booking expensive last-minute tickets and traveling without the required approvals, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press.
The nearly $192 million is down 4 percent from 2017, when the agency pledged to rein in travel abuses following an AP investigation.
But recent documents show WHO auditors found some WHO staffers were still brazenly misrepresenting the reasons for their travel to exploit loopholes in the organization’s policies and flying business class.
There is a joke in NGO circles that the WHO ‘s definition of an “in country WHO expert “is someone from WHO who has flown over the country three times in business class.
In my experience over 25 years nothing has changed with many WHO staff blatantly abusing the very people they are supposed to be protecting and using donor funds to attend meaningless meetings or worse for their own personal travel.
This is not an organisation that will act in the best interests of New Zealanders if it cant control it’s own employees.
Sir Ray
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