Sexual-Harassment Cases Plague U.N.

Source: WSJ

The United Nations, which aspires to protect human rights around the world, is struggling to deal with an embarrassing string of sexual-harassment complaints within its own ranks.

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.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls sexual harassment a 'scourge.'
"No matter which way the cases go, they mishandle it," says George G. Irving, a former U.N. attorney who now represents clients on both sides of such cases.....


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Ahhh...the good old League of Nations.

"hmmmm". if they can't police themselves what would their policing beyond that look like?

this article will, I am sure, be used by the anti-UN forces to further their cause.

is what really floors me. Given some cultures treatment of women though, it is not all that surprising.

is just the backdrop to everyday life, ignored mostly unless it captures public fascination through sexual titillation (pretty mostly blond sexually attacked dead girls, pics in scanty clothes, featured at 11).

It will go nowhere, women will advance not at all, DU-- our community of concerned freethinkers-- will open its mouth in one big collective yawn...as usual.

I am so sick of this