Please sign this petition to UN Secretary-General Guterres and ask family and friends to sign as well. UN Pension Fund is a public pension fund. Anyone can sign! Click link to petition for French and Spanish versions.
Members of the Pension Fund and Board leadership have tried for years to muzzle UN participant representatives on the Board, going so far as to try to change Pension Fund rules. Now they want to stop them from running for elections. They must not succeed!
"The United Nations has promoted democracy around the world for 75 years. And yet its subsidiary - the United Nations Pension Board, and certain UN senior officials , want the General Assembly (GA) to amend Article 6 of the UNJSPF regulations, to disenfranchise hundreds of its active participants , by excluding them from sitting on the Board and overseeing their own pension fund.
The UNJSPF is a public pension fund, designed by the GA for the social security of international civil servants. s ubsidized by taxpayers through their countries’ contributions to the UN and Specialized Agencies.
The GA has not legislated to exclude this minority group of staff as this would violate the UN Charter. Furthermore the right of UN Pension Fund staff to serve on the Board has been upheld three times by the UN Appeals Tribunal (UNAT)
Yet certain senior UN officials are intent on interfering in the upcoming election which has always been run independently by the UN Staff Unions.
Therefore signatories demand that:
- Polling Officers end the delay and approve candidates who are staff of the Pension Fund, in accordance with Article 6 of the UNJSPF regulations. Stop consulting with management. Only the GA approved regulation matters! The delay amounts to an attack on justice and democracy and on the rights of your colleagues and all international civil servants.
- UN staff should have representatives who are experts to oversee their $85 billion dollar pension fund. Staff of the Pension Administration, Office of Investments Management (OIM) and of other specialized agency pension secretariats who have the most expertise must not be excluded from board membership.
- Participants of the UNJSPF must elect whomever among their colleagues they wish to represent them on the UN Staff Pension Committee and Board. The Board may not create exclusionary rules which are contrary to the GA approved Article 6.
Stop disenfranchisement in the UN now!
See UN Pension Blog for more information."
Stop disenfranchisement in the UN now!
ReplyDeletePlease practice what you preach -- democracy is as imperative to the success of the UN as it >is to that of the UN member states.
ReplyDeleteStop disenfranchisement in the UN now!
ReplyDeleteMrs. Loraine Rickard-Martin AND HER TEAM DO AN EXCELLENT JOB.
ReplyDeletePractica en casa lo que pregonas en la calle.
ReplyDeleteParticipants of the UNJSPF must elect whomever among their colleagues they wish to represent them on the UN Staff Pension Committee and Board.
ReplyDeleteAs members of UNJSPF we should have the right to select who we wish to represent us. We have earned this right through our years of contributing to the Fund.
ReplyDeleteAccountability and transparency are fundamental principles, as is the right of beneficiaries to sit on the governance body that decides on the management of funds of one of the most important Pension Funds of the world. There can be no manipulation, nor distortion in the application of these fundamental governance principles.
ReplyDeleteI support the above petition.
ReplyDeleteRanjit Jayanti