巴勒斯坦妇女和儿童在2月份排队从加沙城市的一家慈善机构领取食物。
Palestinian women and children queuing to receive food from a charity in Gaza City in February.
本杰明·戴维斯就被解雇一事向粮农组织提出上诉，之后他被总干事指控“玩弄政治游戏”。一位前联合国粮食机构高级官员声称他上周因工作突出加沙饥饿问题而被解雇，并已就其解雇提起上诉。
Benjamin Davis appealing against dismissal from FAO, after being accused by director general of playing ‘political games’ A former senior UN food agency official has alleged he was fired last week for his work highlighting hunger in Gaza and has launched an appeal against his dismissal.
本杰明·戴维斯表示，粮农组织（FAO）的领导拒绝续签他担任农村转型和性别平等部门主管的合同，理由是他的团队去年发布了一份关于加沙饥饿的简报并举办了相关研讨会，以及他参加了在粮农组织 grounds 上为遇难者举行的每周“默哀”活动。
Benjamin Davis said the leadership of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) had refused to renew his contract as director of its rural transformation and gender equality division because his team had published a brief on hunger in Gaza and held a seminar on the subject last year, and because he taken part in weekly “moment of silence” vigils on FAO grounds for those killed.
去年9月举办的关于加沙饥饿的研讨会引发了以色列驻粮农组织的抱怨。根据当时提交的粮农组织员工报告，该组织还派遣一名外交官前去为去年10月的默哀集会拍照。
The seminar on hunger in Gaza last September triggered a complaint from the Israeli mission to the FAO, which also sent a diplomat to take pictures of staff taking part a moment of silence gathering last October, according to a FAO staff report filed at the time.
62岁的戴维斯是西班牙-美国双国公民，他上周离开粮农组织，共服务26年。视频显示，粮农组织员工站起来为他鼓掌，目送他最后一次离开罗马总部。
Davis, 62 and a Spanish-American dual citizen, left the FAO last week after 26 years of service. Video of the event shows FAO staff standing and applauding him as he left the Rome headquarters for the last time.
“我感觉很好，不是因为我孤军奋战，而是因为其他人也支持我，”戴维斯说。“我经常被人拦住在走廊里，甚至是一些不认识的人，只是为了握手、感谢我，或者告诉我他们支持我，或者告诉我他们也感到愤怒。”粮农组织未回应记者在周一发出的置评请求，但该组织总干事曲东宇上周二在公开讲话中似乎提到了戴维斯的解雇，并威胁要解雇更多人，理由是他认为这些人从事政治活动。
“It’s a nice feeling that I’m not alone, that other people are behind me in this,” Davis said. “I was stopped constantly in the hallways by people, even those that I didn’t know, just to shake my hand or just to thank me or just to say that they supported me or that they were upset.”The FAO did not respond to the Guardian’s request for comment on Monday, but the organisation’s director general, Qu Dongyu, appeared to refer to Davis’s dismissal in public remarks last Tuesday in which he threatened to fire more people for what he deemed to be political activism.
“我们不会允许你在这里玩人权游戏，”一位资深的中国农学家Qu说。“当然人权非常重要，但他们在日内瓦有一个人权机构。如果你想照顾人权，就去那里。”
“We are not going to allow you to play the game here of human rights,” said Qu, a veteran Chinese agronomist. “Of course human rights are very important, but they have a human rights agency in Geneva. If you want to take care [of human rights], go there.”
“这就是为什么当一些高级成员在这里玩政治游戏时，我会解雇他，”他说，这暗示Davis违反了员工规定。“我是一个非常温和的人，我没有解雇很多人。我打算利用我的最后一年……如果他们违法，我会解雇更多人。”Davis说，他和其他FAO员工对Qu的言论感到震惊。
“Thats why [when] some senior members play political games here, I fire him,” he said, suggesting that Davis had violated staff regulations. “I’m a very soft person. I didn’t fire that many. I’m going to use my last year … to fire more if they’re against the law.”Davis said he and fellow FAO staff members had been stunned by Qu’s remarks.
“比起解雇人员的威胁，他关于人权的言论更令人震惊。我认为这真的震惊了人们，因为它动摇了我们在这里存在的根本原因，或者说FAO为什么成为联合国的一部分，以及联合国为什么存在，”他说。
“Even more than the threat about firing people was just what he said about human rights. I think that really shocked people because it undermined the foundations of why we’re here basically, or why FAO is part of the United Nations and why the United Nations exists,” he said.
“我们肯定是一个以人权为基础的组织，对吧？”Davis补充道，指着FAO的口号：“不落下任何人。”告知Davis其合同不会被续签的官方信件称，Qu“不再对你以高级国际公务员应有的方式履行职责的能力感到 confident”。
“We’re surely an organisation which is based on human rights, right?”Davis added, pointing to the FAO slogan: “Leave no one behind.”The official letter informing Davis that his contract would not be renewed said that Qu was “no longer confident in your ability to discharge your obligations in the manner required of a senior international civil servant”.
该信件引用了国际公务员道德准则中关于“诚实、真实、公正和廉洁”以及对“有争议的问题”公开表达个人观点限制的条款。
The letter cited paragraphs in the official code of conduct for international civil servants regarding “honesty, truthfulness, impartiality and incorruptibility” and limits on public expression of personal views on “controversial matters”.
在他的书面答复中，Davis说FAO领导层的做法“简单错误”。
In his written response, Davis said that approach taken by FAO leadership was “simply wrong”.
“在面对苦难和不公时保持沉默并不是中立，而是串通,”他写道。“关闭关于巴勒斯坦人饥饿问题的讨论削弱了该组织的声誉和我们 mandate 的合法性。忠实于我们的 mandate 需要就巴勒斯坦和其他地区的饥饿、大饥荒和种族灭绝进行坦诚开放的讨论。”戴维斯表示，FAO 领导层此前曾批评他，原因是他的团队去年五月发布的一份简报，描述了加沙的饥饿情况，并将其置于国际人道法的背景下。
“Silence in the face of suffering and injustice is not neutrality, it is complicity,” he wrote. “Shutting down discussion on the starvation of the Palestinian people weakens the reputation of the organisation and the legitimacy of our mandate. Being true to our mandate calls for a frank and open discussion around starvation, famine, and genocide in Palestine and elsewhere.”Davis said that FAO leadership had previously criticised him for a briefing paper published by his team in May last year describing the level of hunger in Gaza and setting it in the context of international humanitarian law.
“当前加沙地带的状况……反映了对食物权的严重侵犯和对人道主义援助的非法阻碍,”报告称。该报告在几个星期后根据其领导层的指令从 FAO 网站上删除。
“The current conditions in the Gaza Strip … reflect a gross violation of the right to food and the unlawful obstruction of humanitarian assistance,” the report said. It was removed from the FAO website a few weeks later on the orders of its leadership.
戴维斯于 2025 年 9 月领导了一个有关同一主题的研讨会，这引发了以色列驻 FAO 及其他罗马based 国际机构的投诉。
Davis led a seminar on the same subject in September 2025, which led to a complaint from the Israeli mission to the FAO and other Rome-based international agencies.
戴维斯表示，他还因参加 FAO 停车场内每周四举行的、由关心加沙人士组织的默哀活动而受到批评，以纪念因饥饿死亡的加沙人。10 月 23 日在那里发生了一次冲突，当时一名自称以色列外交官的女子出现并拍摄了参加活动的人的照片。
Davis said he had also been criticised for taking part in moment of silence gatherings held by concerned staff in the FAO car park every Thursday, in remembrance of those in Gaza who had died of hunger. There was an altercation there on 23 October when a woman identifying herself as an Israeli diplomat appeared and took photographs of those attending.
“她解释说她是以色列的常驻代表，并询问我们是否允许举办这些活动，并特别询问谁说我们不能拍照,”当天事故中一位 FAO 目击者的报告称。
“The person explained she was the permanent representative of Israel, and asked if we were allowed to do these events, and asked specifically who says we could not take photographs,” a report by a FAO witness on the day of the incident said.
报告称，在被告知她不能拍照后，这名女子向 FAO 安保部门投诉称她遭到了骚扰。罗马以色列大使馆表示对该报告没有评论。
On being told she could not take photographs, the woman complained to FAO security that she was being harassed, the report said. The Israeli embassy in Rome said it had no comment on the report.
戴维斯称，关于加沙地带的情况简报、相关研讨会以及每周举行的默哀仪式均已获得粮农组织管理层的批准；当时他并未被告知这些行为违反了行为准则。他表示自己已针对被解雇一事提出了正式申诉。
Davis said that the Gaza briefing paper, the associated seminar, and the weekly moments of silence had all been approved by FAO management, and he had not been told at the time that they represented violations of the code of conduct. He said he had lodged a formal appeal against his dismissal.
“我提出申诉主要是出于原则考虑，并非为了寻求或指望获得任何经济赔偿之类的东西，”戴维斯说道。“我请求恢复我的原职位，同时也希望粮农组织撤销对我的各项指控。”
“I filed the appeal mostly as a matter of principle, not because I’m looking for or expecting any monetary compensation or anything like that,” Davis said. “I have requested to be reinstated, and also for them to take back the accusations that they made against me.”