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Free UN Coalition for Access The UN must treat all media fairly and in a content-neutral way — it cannot pick and choose who may report on it
The UN's position is a contradiction: it claims to champion transparency and press freedom globally, while selectively banning journalists whose coverage it finds inconvenient — on US soil, in violation of the Host Country Agreement. FUNCA exists because that hypocrisy must be named and challenged.

Actions & Documentation

Update— Feb 2026
Reaccreditation Denied January 2026 — No Explanation, No Appeal Procedure Offered
Application submitted June 2025. Formally rejected January 2026. UN Department of Global Communications provided no written basis and described no available review mechanism. Pattern mirrors original July 3, 2018 expulsion.
Legal— Feb 2026
Law Clinic Outreach: NYU Refers to Former Special Rapporteur David Kaye at UC Irvine
Pro bono representation requests sent to four leading human rights clinics. NYU Prof. Satterthwaite unable to litigate while serving as UN Special Rapporteur; referred to David Kaye, former UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, now at UC Irvine School of Law - now no answer.
Documentation— 2025
Quinn Emanuel and Duane Morris Letters to Melissa Fleming — No Response
Two pro bono law firm letters to UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming requesting written basis for credential revocation and description of any available review procedure. Neither has received any response.
Documentation— July 3, 2018
Original Expulsion: Cameroon Quid Pro Quo Reporting, Same Day as Interview
Inner City Press credentials revoked the same day as an interview with the Cameroonian Ambassador about an apparent arrangement between Cameroon's UN Budget Committee role and the Secretary General's silence on the government's atrocities against the Anglophones. Press Freedom Index; Columbia Journalism Review. GAP / Whistleblowers. Coverage continues from outside UN premises on InnerCityPress.com

UN Security Council: Elected Members & Press Freedom Records

FUNCA tracks all UN Security Council members' records on press freedom — both domestically and at the UN. The ten elected (non-permanent) members below hold seats through 2026 or 2027. ICP has filed questions to each mission's UN Spokesperson and tracked responses. None have responded on the UN press ban.

Serving through 2026

Country Inner City Press Questions and reports
 Mission X Activity Press Freedom Record & UN Notes
Denmark No answer 3/25
nor 9/25 (UNGA)
 @DenmarkatUN Active  Inner City Press on September 13, 2025  wrote to the Danish UN Mission, see below. No response 16 days later as Denmark, UNSC member, was represented at UNGA by its PR Christina Markus Lassen, who bloviated about international law. Yeah. Silent on the UN's own credentialing practices. No response to Inner City Press' questions on UN press ban.
Greece On X, 5,625 followers-
Inner City Press has
380,000 but Greece won't
answer it
 @GreeceUN Sporadic EU's lowest-ranked country on press freedom, with criminal defamation prosecutions used against journalists. Pegasus spyware scandal implicated Greek authorities in surveillance of journalists. No response to Inner City Press questions.
Pakistan No answer to Inner City Press
email citing Iftikhar Ahmad
July 2025
 @PakistanUN_NY Active Four Pakistani journalists in exile sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia in 2025. PECA law weaponized to block 27 YouTube channels and criminalize "anti-Pakistan" coverage. Over 90 journalists killed since 2000 with near-total impunity. Military interference in media documented across administrations. Currently chairs UNSC 1988 Taliban Sanctions Committee. No response to Inner City Press questions on UN press ban.
Panama No answer to July 31, 2026 email
to the Mission, citing
PR Eloy Alfaro de Alba
 @PanamaONU Sporadic Journalists covering corruption and organized crime face threats. Panama Papers reporting led to significant legal pressure on journalists and outlets. No response to Inner City Press questions.
Somalia UN Blocks Inner City Press Questions
 to Somalia Ambassador Osman
on Progressive Health Care Services
here (YouTube)
 @SomaliaMission Rare One of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists: regular journalist killings and detentions. Somalia held the January 2026 UNSC presidency — no action on any press freedom matter, or Midwest corruption. No response to Inner City Press questions.

Serving through 2027 (joined January 2026)

Country Inner City Press Questions and reports Mission X Activity Press Freedom Record & UN Notes
Bahrain tbd 4/26
 @BahrainMissionUN Rare Journalists imprisoned for social media posts; independent media effectively banned. Post-2011 crackdown on Arab Spring coverage eliminated critical press. Bahrain holds UNSC presidency in April 2026. Inner City Press has filed questions on press freedom to the UN Spokesperson about Bahrain with no response.
Colombia While UN won't
answer on corruption
in its Colombia Mission
the IMF answered Inner
City Press on Colombia,
here
 @ColombiaONU Active One of Latin America's most dangerous countries for journalists covering conflict zones, drug trafficking, and environment.  Petro government has publicly attacked critical journalists. Holds UNSC seat through 2027.
DR Congo tbd 7/2026 - Inner City
Press has exposed UN
corruption in DRC (which
it visited with UNSC)
@CongoMissionONU Rare Reporters covering eastern conflict face life-threatening conditions from both armed groups and state actors. Holds UNSC presidency in July 2026.
Latvia tbd 11/26 - but as bragged
of UNSC seat in 9/25, did
nothing, here
 @LatviaUN Sporadic Has not raised UN internal press freedom issues. Holds UNSC presidency November 2026.
Liberia tbd 12/26 - fwiw Inner
City Press covered
Bronx Liberia event
@LiberiaUN Rare Journalists face economic pressure and government harassment.Holds UNSC presidency December 2026.

Permanent Members (P5) & Related

Mission X Account Activity Notes
United States @USUN Active Emails to and tweets at Amb. Waltz and Deputy Amb. Tammy Bruce bounced and ignored. Holds UNSC presidency March 2026. USUNMRHotline [at] state.gov is supposedly the waste/retaliation contact. But no response to Inner City Press outreach to that address on February 27, 2026 on the press ban.
United Kingdom @UKUN_NewYork Active Formal requests and questions ignored, most recently at the start of February 2026, charge d'affaires James Kariuki, here
France @franceonu Active One French Ambassador (Delattre) did a fundraiser with Ghislaine Maxwell; another tried to get Inner City Press thrown out. No answer, here
and here (2022)
Russia @RussiaUN Active Lavrov used to take Inner City Press' question when he came to the UN, before Inner City Press was thrown out by Guterres. Mission did nothing about the ban
China @China_UN_NY Sporadic China uses its state media's seat on UNCA's Executive Committee to push to keep any journalist from Taiwan - and any critics - out of the UN. Has used Antonio Guterres, to do it, links here
Cameroon @MissionCMR_UN Rare Not a UNSC member, but Ambassador Tommo Monthe's quid pro quo with UNSG Guterres for him to stay silent on the slaughter of the Anglophones for favors by Cameroon as Fifth (Budget) Committee chair, when exposed by Inner City Press, was a proximate cause of Inner City Press' explulsion, see here
UN Spokesperson @UN_Spokesperson Active Inner City Press submits written questions every weekday since July 2018 expulsion — responses: zero, despite Stephane Dujarric's online promise that he would answer, here.  Dujarric deleted his personal X account; no BlueSky or Threads replacement announced. The original #LazySpox.