UN Human Rights Bigwig Arrested On Kiddie Porn Charges

UN Human Rights Bigwig Arrested On Kiddie Porn Charges

Once again, the UN finds itself with another sex scandal on its hands.
This time, one of its bigwigs, Clarence Dias, president of the
International Center for Law in Development, whose offices are located
at the UN, was arrested at JFK Airport after a search revealed kiddie
porn located in his carry on luggage.

Clarence Dias, 65, president of the International Center for Law
in Development, whose offices are located at the UN, had the smut in
his carry-on bag as he passed through security on his way to a flight
bound for Bangkok, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.

Transportation Security Administration officials doing a random
bag check around 8:20a.m. allegedly found a DVD whose cover featured
an apparently underage nude boy and an adult male in Dias' handbag,
prosecutors said.

The video's title - "Winner Pub Pattaya" - apparently refers to a
beach resort in Thailand, authorities said. There were also other lewd
photographs in the bag, authorities said.

Dias - who holds a doctorate in law from Bombay University and
Cornell Law School and has taught at Boston College of Law - claimed
the porn was for research, authorities said.

"He admitted it was his - but tried to play it off. He said he was
doing research on how to better make sure kids' rights were not
abused," a police source said. "Yeah, sure. It's always research."

Calls to Dias' office went straight to voicemail Tuesday.

The humanitarian group calls itself "a Third World NGO
[nongovernmental organization] concerned about human rights in the
development process."

This is the latest sex scandal to roil the UN.

There was the emergency sex scandals, the repeated refusal to protect
women and children from peacekeepers unwarranted sexual advances in
multiple peacekeeping missions (Haiti, DR Congo, Kosovo, Sierra Leone,
Liberia, and Guinea), and a general inability to police their own
officials throughout the world who ignore the rape, pedophilia, and
sexual assault allegations, including underage girls. Thus, it comes
as no surprise that yet another UN official is trafficking in kiddie
porn. It's part and parcel of the culture of corruption at the UN and
its related organizations.

UPDATE:
Look at it another way. If it was US officials who had kiddie porn,
and it was US soldiers who engaged in sexual assaults on refugees in
their charge, what would the media do? They would demand war crimes
trials and public hangings for those soldiers.

Since it's the UN, not so much. The UN has been bulletproof to these
charges before, and I don't see it changing anytime soon, despite the
fact that change is sorely needed at the UN.