| The United Nations refugee chief said Tuesday that he is under investigation for sexual harassment after a staff member filed a complaint. Ruud Lubbers said the case was filed on April 27 and related to a meeting that took place in his office on December 18 last year that was also attended by five other staff members. "There was no improper behavior on my part," Lubbers, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and former Dutch prime minister, said in a statement. UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond said the case is being investigated by the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight. "That is all we will be saying, as this inquiry is underway," Redmond said. Tuesday's edition of The New York Times said that the complaint was made by an American woman in her 40s who had worked for the refugee agency for more than 20 years. The incident allegedly happened as she and a group of male staff members were leaving Lubbers' office at the end of the December meeting, the paper said. |