Posted on 12/17/2019 10:21:45 AM PST by BenLurkin
A United Nations whistleblower who accused a high-ranking official of sexually assaulting her has been fired over alleged financial and sexual misconduct.
She says that it was retaliation for her own complaint of sexual assault. The investigation that would lead to her dismissal was started by her alleged assailant.
Martina Brostrom, who first went public with her allegations against an assistant secretary general at the UN in a CNN interview in March 2018, says that she was dismissed from the organization on Friday. She denied charges of misconduct linked to her dismissal.
Brostrom told CNN last year that Luiz Loures, a UN assistant secretary general who has since left the role, forcibly groped and kissed her in 2015, and that her superiors tried to convince her against filing a complaint. In reporting Brostrom’s case, CNN spoke to two other women who alleged similar assaults by Loures.
Loures, who was also the deputy executive director of UNAIDS, has consistently denied all the allegations. An internal UN investigation cleared him of wrongdoing in Brostrom’s case, but that inquiry was reopened after Brostrom went public and remains ongoing.
Before being publicly accused of harassment, Loures had already requested a misconduct investigation, in March 2016, into another UNAIDS employee who is Brostrom’s partner.
The head of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé, stepped down earlier this year after a damning independent report said that he presided over a “patriarchal culture tolerating harassment and abuse of authority.” The UN called his departure a “personal decision.” In May, UNAIDS congratulated Sidibe on his appointment as Minister of Health and Social Affairs in his native Mali.
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Some whistleblowers are more equal than others...
Set your scopes to ‘blue helmet’ mode.
Almost certainly a hoax accuser. Again, no evidence but her delayed claim.
RE: UN Worker Who Accused High-Ranking Official of Sexual Assault Has Been Fired
Decisions, decisions.
Is the UN Worker telling the truth?
POSSIBILITIES:
1) YES. Then this firing is an absolute injustice.
2) NO. Then yes, the worker should be fired.
QUESTION: Was there ever an investigation done?
Don’t worry, for the UN management will be getting lifetime pensions and healthcare coverage. They and their families will be OK.
Anonymity, not required ...
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