1987: pedophile ring exposed, with secret photographic studio in basement of UNICEF building in Brussels (pizzagate)

submitted ago by andrevandelft

This is thirty years old, but the NGO connection is still actual:

CHILD SEX SCANDAL ROILS UNICEF UNIT

By PAUL LEWIS, Special to the New York Times

Published: June 25, 1987

PARIS, June 24— The head of the United Nations Children's Fund in Belgium resigned today after the disclosure of a child pornography case linked to the Belgian branch of the organization.

A spokesman at Unicef headquarters in Geneva said the head of the organization's Belgian committee, Gilbert Jaeger, had resigned ''to show how angry he is about what has happened in his organization.''

In a statement issued in Geneva, Unicef said it is ''deeply shocked'' by the scandal, which has led to 14 arrests in Belgium and others in Switzerland, France and Britain. Unicef said it was investigating charges that the Belgian committee was linked to an organization producing pornographic photographs of children and distributing them throughout Europe.

Unicef's mission is to help and protect the world's children. Like many other United Nations bodies, it has independent volunteer committees in all Western industrial countries to raise money for its activities - in Unicef's case, largely through the sale of holiday greeting cards. 'The First to Suffer'

The Unicef statement noted that the organization spent $400 million last year on projects promoting the health, nutrition and education of children in developing countries. It is currently drafting an international convention for the protection of children's rights, to be submitted later this year to the General Assembly in New York.

''The first to suffer from the discredit which would unjustly fall on this organization as a result of this affair would evidently be the children of the third world,'' Unicef warned in the statement.

The scandal erupted last week, when the Belgian police arrested Jos Verbeek, 63 years old, the director of Unicef's Belgian committee, and charged him with inciting minors to debauchery.

The arrest followed the discovery of a secret photographic studio in the basement of the Brussels building where the committee's offices are housed. The studio was used to take pornographic photographs of children, many of whom were of North African origin, the police said. #1,000 Photos Seized The police said more than 1,000 such photographs were seized, along with a mailing list of some 400 names in 15 European countries that had been prepared on the Unicef office computer.

Similar photographs found in several other European countries appear to have been taken in the Unicef office in Brussels, according to investigators. Among those arrested was another Unicef employee, Michel Felu, 45, who the police say organized evening computer classes for children in the organization's offices. These children were then sometimes made to pose for pornographic photographs, the police said.

I quoted this piece earlier in a comment: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1439550/6948420

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DigForTheKids ago

I kind of feel like every single NGO, every single supernational body meant to help poor children, is just a front for pedophiles.

putneg ago

not every single one, but a lot of them are.

Shady:https://cafo.org Not shady: rescue.org

See how the shady ones don't have any reports on their own work. Don't show results and use vague wording to explain what they do? It looks a bit like what BLM's soros investment say:

(BLM)“The BLMF provides grants, movement building resources, and technical assistance to organizations working advance the leadership and vision of young, Black, queer, feminists and immigrant leaders who are shaping and leading a national conversation about criminalization, policing and race in America,”

(NGO)The Christian Alliance for Orphans unites 190+ respected organizations and over 650 church members. Our joint initiatives inspire and equip Christians to live out effectively the Bible’s call to care for orphans and vulnerable children

Now the not shady one "about us":

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.

Thanks to the generosity of IRC supporters, more than 23 million people benefited from IRC programs and those of our partner organizations in 2015—nearly 5.5 million more individuals than we were able to reach in 2014. In 2015, the IRC and its partner organizations:

  • Helped more than 21 million people gain access to primary and reproductive health care.
  • Vaccinated more than 440,000 children under the age of one against measles.
  • Supported 2,384 clinics and health facilities that helped more than 315,000 women deliver healthy babies.
  • Supported more than 13,000 community health workers to treat communicable diseases in children under age 5 and treated 186,000 children under age 5 for acute malnutrition.
  • Gave 2.6 million people access to clean drinking water or sanitation.
  • Provided schooling and educational opportunities to more than 1.3 million children; trained more than 54,000 educators and supported 7,959 schools.
  • Provided counseling, care and support to more than 36,800 vulnerable children and trained 9,525 child protection workers.
  • Provided 24,555 families with parenting support.
  • Created 1,716 village savings and loan associations that benefited more than 38,000 members who saved a total of nearly $1.8 million.
  • Trained more than 14,900 farmers in agriculture and agribusiness, and provided more than 34,700 farmers with access to markets and farm resources including seeds and fertilizers.
  • Provided job-related skills training to more than 27,000 people.
  • Helped create or support 8,760 businesses.
  • Provided $11.8 million in cash and asset transfers to 75,625 refugees and displaced households.
  • Provided counseling and health, social and legal services to more than 11,400 survivors of gender based violence (GBV); trained 33,000 people in GBV prevention and reached some 750,000 people with community-based violence prevention efforts.
  • Offered legal assistance to more than 35,450 people; trained 18,267 people in the principles of human rights and protection; offered information on preventing and responding to human rights abuses to more than 190,000 people.
  • Trained over 25,800 people in the principles of governance (improving government accountability) and provided information on governance to 168,400 people.
  • In the United States, helped resettle 9,961 newly arrived refugees and provided services to over 36,000 refugees, asylees, victims of human trafficking and other immigrants.
  • Through the IRC Resettlement Support Center in Thailand assisted 18,151 refugees from East Asia to resettle in the U.S.

It's actually really easy to figure it out with some of the most blatant ones but others are much more subtle. Don't let this make you think there are no real NGOs because that's just not the case. People risk and give their lives for others in many NGOs, even in the bad ones most of the ground people don't know they're doing shit. They think they're helping. Like nazi supporters thought they were doing good. You just need to dig to find the ok ones. MSF and theirc (rescue.org) are some of the best out there.