After appointing Monroe Bergdorf, a man, as a representative of this body it was time to have a little delve into UN Women U.K. You can read about the unsuitability of Mr Bergdorf here 👇
They UN Women U.K. is a U.K based organisation, who are affiliated with the United Nations. They are set up as a registered charity and also a limited company.
Chair of UN Women U.K. is Baroness Verma. She made her fortune in fashion, before branching out into the residential care sector. She also made a huge deal with Uganda to supply solar power. This attracted some negative media coverage, especially over her decision to stay silent on Uganda’s anti homosexual laws, presumably to avoid jeopardising a lucrative deal.
I have perused the financial statements, available at the Charity Commission, to check what kind of activities UN Woman U.K. are engaged in and who are their corporate partners. The ones named appear to be similarly in need of rainbow washing. One such is Net A Porter, a luxury fashion brand. 👇
A quick search turned up a reason for the need to distract from less ethical, seeming, behaviours. Seems net a porter attracted criticism for their tax affairs. 👇
Publicity Stunts
Here are some other corporate partners supporting a publicity drive with the purported aim of dismantlng stereotypes. I am not fully convinced choosing a walking sex stereotype like Monroe Bergdorf, as ambassador, was their best move. I guess if it’s a man performing a pornified version of “womanhood” that’s stunning and brave. Misters doing it for themselves.
UN Women U.K. are hyper focussed on getting corporate backing for their project and their reports are peppered with references to multi-national brand sponsors.
Another campaign drew support from a slew of celebrities and political figures. The Draw A Line campaign was fronted by the London Mayor and, Diary of a Call girl star, Billie Piper.
Another campaign involving UN Women U.K. was the HeForShe campaign fronted by Emma Watson, of Harry Potter fame, globally. The U.K. branch of UN Women played a prominent role in the London based events.
In accompanying YouTube promotions they featured Harnum Kaur who celebrates her beard; which is a side effect of her Polycystic ovary syndrome (a condition that exclusively affects the female sex).
As well as media campaigns they have the inevitable star studded award ceremonies. This one included Julia Gillard, ex Australian PM, who was responsible for enshrining Gender Identity in law.
Gilliard infamously spluttered through the question of “What is a woman” calling it a gotcha question finally ending with this blatant disregard for the rights of women.
The first overt mention of LGBTQI+ in the accounts, comes in 2021 but it is clear from their contacts that they were fully on board with the rebranding of women to include men.
This 👇is from one of their staff/volunteers in a promotional YouTube.
Tutton is the founder of a campaign to end street harassment. She was educated at Cambridge University and Harvard; where she undertook a course in women’s studies. Predictably she has pronouns in her bio.
She now promotes her self as. specialist advisor. The term “luxury beliefs” could have been coined for these grifters.
The current CEO of UN Women U.K. came out of the Womens Equality Party which at its inception was determined to include men rebranded, in their world, as “women”. She is Tabitha Morton formerly deputy leader. Predictably she has pronouns in her bio.
More on the Women’s Equality Party here 👇.
Tabitha is in a Lesbian relationship with a woman (Chris Paouros) who is trustee for a trans lobby group “Just like Us”. This is another LGBT promotional charity who goes into schools and is bankrolled by the usual foundations. ( I will do a post on Just Like US because they merit their own deep dive).
Political machinations.
At its inception the charity gained access to government departments boasting of their access to the Government Equality Office.Department for Overseas Development and ministerial contacts.
They secured ministerial engagement from Justine Greening.
Finally in 2020 the charity set up an All Parliamentary Group to lobby for their own version of “women’s” rights which is co chaired by Maria Miller MP and Baroness Verma.
Other MPs who co chair the group are also on board with this travesty version of women’s rights advocacy.
On the register of interests UN Women U.K. is the recognition that the secretariat is provided, free of charge, by the charity itself and another organisation who is listed as providing free research to the group. Here are the details of L.E.K consulting who appear to be this company and involved in the following commercial sectors.
It’s worth also looking at some of the well connected women who were, historically, involved with UN Women U.K. This is an introduction. to Nuala Harris. She was an inclusion advisor to the World Bank, the Football Association and previously held consulting roles for Blackrock; who we know have investments in “trans medicine” .
Or ex Labour MP, Ann Mckechin, who is listed as a trustee but doesn’t mention it on her Linkedin. I have deduced that she is the Ann Listed because she promotes vacancies in UN Women U.K. (I could be wrong but it seems likely).
Mckechin is the Vice Chair of of Public Health Scotland and also an advisor to the Scottish Prisons Service who are currently on di ti g a live experiment by letting sex offenders share with women.
Then there is Shirley Cooper, O.B.E. former trustee of UN Women U.K. She holds roles with the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Justice as well as the International UN Women.
In common with many of these charities UN Women U.K. has secured funding from the National Lottery and Comic relief. The capture of the charity sector seems complete. (Incidentally, I am pretty sure I can across one person associated with the charity who formerly held a post at Comic Relief. If I find it again I will update this post)
Next up I am going to look at funding for the Glasgow Women’s Library. In the meantime if you can support my work, every little helps.
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