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United Nations GC Member Report - ToddandClare.com
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United Nations Report
COP/RTCS/290/18
United Nations GC Member:
T&C Network Solutions
(“ToddandClare.com”)
Member Level: Advanced
October 4, 2016
Report 9403.02
Agenda: UN GC Principle 10
98-86970 (E)
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Statement of Support by United Nations GC Member T&C Network Solutions,
DBA “ToddandClare.com” on October 4, 2016
Appendix 1.1: Summary of the plaintiff’s summons in UK lawsuit (Ref #C9QZ4K3T)
against Julian Assange by ToddandClare.com for breach of contract.
[As disclosed in this report, the context of our UK court action against Mr Assange
significantly relates to a criminal investigation by the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF)
into Mr Julian Assange’s alleged procurement and internet grooming of an 8-year-old girl in
Nassau, Bahamas, that was reported by the family of a ToddandClare.com female user.]
1. UN member T&C Network Solutions (herein “ToddandClare.com”), URL:
https://www.unglobalcompact.org/what-is-gc/participants/83761-T-C-Network-Solutions
hereby declares continued support for the United Nations’ Global Compact division, and
renews our firm ongoing commitment to the initiative.
2.
ToddandClare.com notes Sir Mark Moody-Stuart’s letter to our media
and communications manager, Mr Romney, dated September 15, 2016, encouraging
ToddandClare.com as a United Nations Global Compact member, “to take
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unprecedented action to realize the immense promise of [Sustainable Development
Goals] SDGs.”
3.
ToddandClare.com recognizes our responsibilities as a UN member to
focus on the policies and business framework our company adopts to deal
specifically with:
(i) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5, to achieve gender equality
and empower all women and girls;
(ii) SDG 10: Reducing inequality within and among countries, and;
(iii) SDG 16: Promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable
development, providing access to justice for all and building effective,
accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
4.
In relation to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5,
ToddandClare.com, applauds the inspiring work of Ms. Lise Kingo, Executive
Director of the United Nations Global Compact. We recognize our moral duty as a
United Nations member to “mobilize a global movement of sustainable companies
and stakeholders to create the world we want.”
5.
Part of that recognition requires ToddandClare.com to submit to the
United Nations, as set forth in this Communication on Progress, legally
consequential information regarding the UN Working Group on Arbitrary
Detention’s decision on Julian Assange.
We refer to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s statement:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=17012
6.
For the reasons laid out below in Description of Practical Actions, it is
our firm conviction that our learned colleagues at the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights have made an error in supporting Mr
Assange, who is under investigation in the Bahamas for child sex offenses using our
dating website.
7.
Mr Assange is a fugitive who fled bail in a serious rape case in London,
in June 2012, and voluntarily imposed self-isolation aided by the Government of
Ecuador, to evade a lawful, and properly issued, European Arrest Warrant (EAW).
8.
ToddandClare.com is a UN member stakeholder concerned with being
transparent in our commitment to upholding the UN Global Compact’s Principle 10.
We are required to report our progress to the United Nations. We regret to inform
the UN that our business has been strategically and organizationally targeted by
Julian Assange, and Wikileaks, for the purpose of using our name as a United
Nations signatory, with an established women’s network, for unauthorized purposes.
9.
As United Nations stakeholders, ToddandClare.com is publicly asking
the Secretary General on behalf the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary
Detention, to retract the above statement on the OHCHR.org website, and take into
consideration—before disseminating any further statements in support of Julian
Assange—the emotional devastation of rape victims.
10. By supporting Julian Assange, the UN is inadvertently helping Mr
Assange to obfuscate the legal rights of female rape victims in Europe. The UN
Working Group’s position in its wider context, will potentially lessen victim’s
rights, and will not uphold the tenets of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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11. Protecting and investing in women’s equal rights should be the United
Nations’ first and greater aspiration—not helping a fugitive who fled bail in one of
the world’s fairest and most independent judicial systems, the UK.
12. In requesting the Working Group to retract their position, for the reasons
set out below, we are asking the United Nations to take into account the complex
plight of female rape victims more circumspectly, at every level.
13. For speaking out, ToddandClare.com is currently being subject to
unlawful threats by Wikileaks, pressuring us not to pursue UK court proceedings.
Wikileaks’ threats to defame us, to ruin us, to destroy our business using electronic
methods, are criminal and may constitute cyberwarfare and/or terrorism under US
law including without limitation: Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) 18 U.S.
Code §1030; 18 U.S. Code § 1362 - Communication lines, stations or systems; 18
U.S. Code § 1029 - Fraud and related activity in connection with access devices; 18
U.S. Code § 2701 - Unlawful access to stored communications.
Todd Hammond
CEO, ToddandClare.com
T&C Network Solutions
United Nations GC Member
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Description of Practical Actions
Anti-Corruption
1.
Mandated by our United Nations Global Compact Advanced Member
status, ToddandClare.com has been investing in Sustainable Development Goal
(SDG) 5, to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. To that end,
in our role as dating providers to a female network, we agreed to provide financial
aid for a groundbreaking rape and domestic violence prevention initiative, the
KATIA Project (https://www.toddandclare.com/katia).
2.
Named after a female rape survivor, KATIA is a computer science
program for women to run “rape screens” coded in a programming language, called
“R”. The software uses advanced mathematical techniques, linguistics, and facial
recognition, to identify sex offenders with pre-existing criminal or incarceration
records (principally in the US) from their dating selfies, who are using online social
networks to target unsuspecting female users. Our motivation and end goal is solely
to protect ToddandClare.com’s female members from being harmed by abusers.
3.
KATIA was designed by experts. A University of Notre Dame
mathematician, Scott Drotar, a Google engineer from the Reverse Image Search
team, and a women’s rape counselor, who has a career background in mathematical
statistics. Some of the people involved in the project have their identities shielded
for legal and professional reasons.
4.
On May 11, 2016, KATIA received the formal written support of an
internationally acclaimed expert in linguistics, Professor Noam Chomsky of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
#HEFORSHE ADVOCACY FROM JULIAN ASSANGE FOR KATIA
5.
On June 8, 2016, ToddandClare.com was contacted by a representative of
Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, stating that due to MIT Professor Noam
Chomsky’s support in the KATIA Project, Mr Assange was interested in becoming a
#HeForShe Ambassador for KATIA. Mr Assange’s approach message (conveyed on
his behalf by his attorneys at a Stockholm-based law firm, Advokatfirman
Samuelson, Schönmeyr & Wall HB) discussed Mr Assange offering his name to
spread awareness for KATIA pro bono, to help protect women. Mr Assange claimed
he was a “feminist” wanting to help “rape victims in the UK and Scandinavia reach
equitable treatment before the law.”
6.
Per Samuelson, Mr Assange’s attorney, who attested to the validity of the
situation, acted as a relay for messages between his client and ToddandClare.com,
ahead of subsequent phone calls and two video conferences.
7.
In return for Mr Assange’s celebrity to spread the KATIA Project beyond
its YouTube PSA, performed by 33 women, (“Rape Culture by Ellie
#StandwithKATIA”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBdzbMpo9I)
Mr
Assange would receive the moral support of a “second United Nations-affiliated
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party”, ToddandClare.com, in our UN status as a United Nations Global Compact
stakeholder with a sizeable female network comprised of over 100,000 women (as
of September 2016). Mr Assange’s original proposal claimed he had been
“vindicated by the United Nations” and referred us by hyperlink to the February 5,
2016, UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention statement concerning Mr
Assange’s European Arrest Warrant (EAW) with Swedish and British authorities:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=17012
8.
At the time of negotiations, ToddandClare.com believed Mr Assange’s
proposed #HeForShe Ambassadorship would be valuable for KATIA’s outreach.
Rape and domestic violence prevention are extremely contentious and underlooked
subject matters, which many men, especially in the dating industry, do not want
publicly discussed. Men find rape difficult to talk about, on any level. To give an
example of the enormity of the challenges facing KATIA’s launch, at a nascent
stage; one of KATIA’s scientists, Scott Drotar, started a petition on change.org, to
make Congress and male national political representatives aware of the program.
That petition, which contains requests to Congress that would likely serve to protect
women and single moms using dating sites, has attracted fewer than 30 signatures:
https://www.change.org/p/u-s-house-of-representatives-require-sex-offenders-to-
report-their-social-networking-accounts.
9.
ToddandClare.com had previously publicized KATIA and had been in
discussions with the nonprofit RAINN (the Rape, Abuse & Incest National
Network), who were contemporaneously informed of Prof. Chomsky’s support.
RAINN’s then VP of communications, Katherine Hull Flifet, first contacted
ToddandClare.com regarding KATIA in February 2016. Ms Hull Flifet requested
KATIA remove all mention of RAINN from its website, because as we understood,
the rape counselor involved (whom was stated had an association with RAINN) had
not previously shared her involvement in KATIA with her employer.
CONTRACT MEDIATION THROUGH ADVOKATFIRMAN SSW
10. Advokatfirman SSW informed us that “Julian Assange should be
compensated a nominal fee” of [undisclosed amount], that was later arranged, at Mr
Assange’s request, to be paid to Wikileaks in bitcoins.
11. In a phone call on July 7, 2016, between Per Samuelson, Mr Assange’s
legal representative, and Todd Hammond, the chief executive officer of
ToddandClare.com, it was alluded to by Mr Samuelson that Mr Assange was looking
for support from feminist groups that could represent a grassroots action network of
women speaking out against Swedish prosecutors, who we understood were seeking
Mr Assange’s extradition to Sweden.
12. Mr Samuelson used the example of a 2012 article published in the UK
Guardian Newspaper, authored by Katrin Axelsson and Lisa Longstaff, entitled We
are Women Against Rape but we do not want Julian Assange extradited.
13. Subsequently, Todd Hammond spoke with Mr Julian Assange on four (4)
occasions, two times by phone on July 11 and July 13, and two times by video-
conferencing call on July 19 and July 21. The calls took place between Mr
Assange’s location at the Ecuadorian embassy in London and ToddandClare.com’s
Houston, TX headquarters.
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TERMINATION OF CONTRACT
14. Following the legal disclosures (below) regarding the Royal Bahamas
Police Force criminal investigation into child sex offenses relating to Julian Assange
and the family of a female user on our site, all contractual agreements with Mr
Assange were terminated with immediate effect on September 28, 2016.
15. After September 28, 2016, Mr Assange’s Swedish representative, Mr
Samuelson, and Mr Assange, refused to engage in any phone or email discussions
regarding our prior arrangement.
16. On October 3, 2016, ToddandClare.com began legal action in the UK
courts against Mr Assange for breach of contract, principally to prevent Mr Assange
from ever using our United Nations status or association in his criminal case.
THE ROYAL BAHAMAS POLICE INVESTIGATION (RBPF) AGAINST
JULIAN ASSANGE: WHAT WE KNOW TO DATE
Women’s Rights
1
As a UN Global Compact member, ToddandClare.com is duty bound by
United Nations regulations to bring the criminal child sex offenses investigation of
the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF Reference: Sgt Ferguson 1705 RBPF
Thompson Boulevard) involving our business and Mr Julian Assange, to the UN’s
attention.
2.
On Wednesday, September 28, 2016, ToddandClare.com’s Trust & Safety
team was contacted by the father of an 8-year-old juvenile regarding a criminal
investigation by the Royal Bahamas Police Force that contexts serious child sex
offenses against the man’s young daughter. The juvenile is the younger sister of a
22-year-old adult female ToddandClare.com user.
3.
Our understanding is that the RBPF Investigation (RBPF Reference: Sgt
Ferguson 1705 RBPF Thompson Boulevard) is being handled by a specialist child
protection unit of the Bahamas police authorities and relates to the child exploitation
of an 8-year-old juvenile in Nassau, Bahamas using electronic/internet methods;
prohibited use of an electronic communication system to procure a minor; child
pornography production; and the luring of a minor online for sex, by Mr Julian
Assange, who we understand has been identified from chatlogs.
4.
We understand the family involved are Canadian nationals, who were on
a month long yachting vacation through the Bahamas, and residing as guests of Mrs.
Mavis Darling-Hill, at the Darling-Hill’s poolside residence in the Blair Estates area
of Nassau, New Providence.
5.
The investigation specifically pertains to Mr Assange’s remote use of our
dating site, ToddandClare.com.
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6.
We understand the father was advised to contact Sgt Darrington Sands at
the local Fox Hill police station. We understand initial contact with law enforcement
was subsequently made with Sgt Symonatt for the Blair Estates area, at 10am, on
September 28, 2016, in which the father reported the pedophile crimes against his 8-
year-old daughter.
7.
We understand the Fox Hill duty officer subsequently transferred the
family to urgently contact the Central Detective Unit of the Royal Bahamas Police
Force on Thompson Boulevard in Nassau.
8.
We understand the family proceeded to make a formal complaint to
Sergeant Ferguson at Thompson Boulevard on Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at
12.40pm, that their 8-year-old juvenile daughter was sexually molested online by
Julian Assange, through ToddandClare.com, and that Assange had been accessing
the site from London, UK.
9.
We understand Julian Assange was clearly photo- and video- identified in
the chatlogs by both the parents of the juvenile, and Mrs Darling-Hill, who is the
Bahamas Social Services worker involved.
10. We understand the chatlogs evidenced the 8-year-old juvenile was
unlawfully made the subject of “internet grooming” by Mr Assange, which included
propositioning the 8-year-old juvenile “to perform oral and anal sex acts”.
11. We understand the family reported to the Bahamas authorities that Mr
Assange sent the 8-year-old juvenile (i) unlawful, indecent images and video media
of himself performing lewd acts on a mobile camera device, and (ii) unlawful
obscenity materials of a child pornographic nature.
12. Neither the 22 year old female nor the 8-year old juvenile had physically
met offline with Mr Assange at any time.
13. The family has no connection to Sweden, the UK, or the United States,
and no connection with Julian Assange whatsoever. The family has made clear, at
this extraordinarily sensitive time, their only priority is their 8-year-old’s wellbeing.
14. These Royal Bahamas Police Force circumstances led to the immediate
termination of the agreement between ToddandClare.com and Julian Assange, and
forthwith, cancellation of all plans to film a video production for the KATIA Project
with Mr Assange, who both we and the KATIA Project have completely
disassociated from.
15. No other users of ToddandClare.com are involved.
UNLAWFUL THREATS MADE AGAINST TODDANDCLARE.COM BY
WIKILEAKS AND JULIAN ASSANGE IN RELATION TO UK COURT
ACTION
1.
ToddandClare.com hereby advises the United Nations that both Mr
Assange and Wikileaks have issued separate, unlawful threats against
ToddandClare.com and our American owners, in the event that ToddandClare.com
brings and/or pursues our UK court proceedings in Appendix 1.1
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2.
The threats were delivered through the Riseup.net activist network, and
through Mr Assange’s Swedish counsel, Advokatfirman SSW.
3.
The threats concern ToddandClare.com, our business, our investors, and
our staff, being subjected to “unending” cyber warfare including:
(i) ToddandClare.com’s business infrastructure and company web server;
(ii) ToddandClare.com’s social media presence,
(iii) ToddandClare.com’s ongoing membership of the United Nations as an
advanced GC member.
(iv) Unspecified actions to “discredit” our representatives.
4.
Under US law, Mr Assange and Wikileaks’ threats amount to terrorism
against an American citizen (ToddandClare.com) by a foreign entity.
5.
We are very concerned for the security of our female staff and women
members. We have told all our 20+ long-term female employees to remove their
social media presences from Facebook, LinkedIn, and other public outlets.
6.
We have similarly advised female members who were following us on
Facebook to “un-like” ToddandClare.com and remove all public association between
themselves and our business until further notice.
7.
Julian Assange and Wikileaks’s threats have systemically impacted upon
the normal running of our business. In respect to our policies and business
framework for dealing with important labor and environmental matters, we have
implemented companywide audits and risk assessments to ensure best practices are
upheld in corporate governance during this difficult time.
APPENDIX 1.1: SUMMARY OF UK COURT ACTION AGAINST JULIAN
ASSANGE FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT
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