"On Wednesday, August 30, Prince Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, delivered a strongly worded, public critique of President Donald Trump's statements about the press in the United States... Zeid's own record on protecting human rights and freedom of the press is less than impressive...
[U]nder Zeid's stewardship, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has run aground twice on gross human rights abuses disclosed by its own staff members. Rather than finding protection in the Office of the High Commissioner, they instead became targets at the hands of Zeid himself, even as he tried to conceal their disclosures.
In fact, the OHCHR has racked up an appalling record of retaliation against whistleblowing staff members. In 2015, the news broke that peacekeepers in the Central African Republic were sexually abusing young boys at a camp for refugees displaced by war. Anders Kompass, the Chief of Field Operations and Technical Cooperation who reported to Zeid, transmitted the report on the abuses to French diplomats, and French law enforcement was deployed immediately to investigate and stop the abuse.
Zeid's reaction? He suspended and investigated Kompass for 'leaking' the information-although Kompass was acting within his own scope of authority--in a bid to stop horrific crimes from continuing to occur.
Kompass' action was fully vindicated and endorsed a year later by an independent investigative panel appointed by then Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The same panel found that Zeid had a 'singleminded determination to pursue an investigation; against Kompass rather than the sexual abusers...
Another one of Zeid's staffers balked at informing the government of China of the identities of human rights defenders scheduled to travel to Geneva for a Human Rights Council session where they would likely deliver remarks critical of the Chinese government. She now says she is suffering from harassment, and she has found no protection forthcoming from the High Commissioner..."