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Sexual-Harassment Cases Plague U.N. | |
2009-05-22 | |
Many U.N. workers who have made or faced accusations of sexual harassment say the current system for handling complaints is arbitrary, unfair and mired in bureaucracy. One employee's complaint that she was sexually harassed for years by her supervisor in Gaza, for example, was investigated by one of her boss's colleagues, who cleared him. Cases can take years to adjudicate. Accusers have no access to investigative reports. Several women who complained of harassment say their employment contracts weren't renewed, and the men they accused retired or resigned, putting them out of reach of the U.N. justice system. | |
Posted by:Steve White |
#5 Why, the guys in question are just complying to the cultural norms in their homelands. Stop imposing your oppressive white male standards on them, imperialists! (Yeah, I know there's some white guys in the article, but as long as they say pretty words from the correct playbooks, they're okey-dokey with most womyn's groups.) |
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-05-22 15:55 |
#4 "Hey baby, wanna play Rubba Dubb Lubbers in my hot tub?" |
Posted by: ed 2009-05-22 11:15 |
#3 More likely: "Nice job you have there. Good pay, good benefits. Be a shame if anything happened to it..." |
Posted by: Seafarious 2009-05-22 10:56 |
#2 An OIOS investigation concluded that Ruud Lubbers, then head of the U.N.'s main refugee agency and the former prime minister of the Netherlands, had sexually harassed Cynthia Brzak, a longtime American staffer. The probe found that Mr. Lubbers engaged "in serious acts of misconduct" of a "sexual nature." I'll bet I know his pickup line. "Hey, baby, with as name like Rudd Lubbers, I gotta be good..." |
Posted by: tu3031 2009-05-22 10:54 |
#1 The UN is a sexual preditor's playground. It's disgusting to have it headquartered in our country. hut 'em down. Shove 'em out. |
Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2009-05-22 10:26 |