UN female employee files sex assault and hostile work environment complaint

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21 October 2011

A consultant working at the UN-Headquarters has filed an internal formal complaint with the Organization accusing her direct supervisor of sexually assaulting her.

According to information received, the woman was invited by her supervisor to a bar in New York, where he allegedly assaulted her in the following ways:

-holding the woman's head fixed with his hands and repeatedly kissed her cheeks, ears and neck

-running his hands under the woman's skirt, groping her back, waist and buttocks

-pressing the woman's upper torso against himself.

The employee told that during and after the episode she felt paralyzed and mentally numb.

"I could not think or move. I felt like I was glued to my seat even though I was awkwardly teetering on the edge of the bar stool. Seeing that I was in a state of shock, he asked me not to tell anyone at the office about what happened. I kept thinking that I was going to lose my job, that I would have to leave the country, and that I would not get to be with my fiancé. Immediately I was out of my aggressor's sight I frantically tried to reach my fiancé. From my voice, he immediately sensed that something was wrong. He asked me to tell him more, but I wasn't able to sleep. We communicated at various instances through that night, as both of us were too distraught to sleep " she said.

The woman has also asked the Organization to open an investigation into her allegations that a number of officials have reportedly engaged in a pattern of marginalization and discrimination against her since she has reported the sexual assault.

A UN internal fact finding investigation is expected to start this week, said the UN Office of Human Resources Management.

UNJustice hopes that adequate protection is provided to the woman and a thorough investigation into both the allegations of sexual assault and of hostile work environment may bring those found responsible to justice.

MINUSTAH Peacekeepers Charged With Sexual Abuse in Haiti, Again – Ban Ki-moon Remains Silent, Once Again-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth

By Matthew Russell Lee @ INNER CITY PRESS

UNITED NATIONS, August 17 — In Haiti, UN peacekeepers from Uruguay are accused of having sex with children in their base, and taking nude photos of the children to show other soldiers, according to the Comité de recherches pour le développement et l’organisation de Port-salut.

These allegations, revealed by www.haitian-truth.org, were published in the Haitian press six days ago — ironically the day that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sent a letter to the director of The Whistleblower, about sex trafficking by UN peacekeepers in Bosnia.

This was described as Ban confronting a sordid chapter of the UN’s history, but Ban has apparently not confronted alleged misdeed under his watch and responsibility. The UN in New York, in the six days after the allegations were made in Haiti, said nothing about them.

Inner City Press on August 17, the day after the UN had canceled its normal noon briefing, asked Ban’s acting deputy spokesman about the allegations against the Uruguayan UN peacekeepers in Port-Salut.

Haq said, “MINUSTAH is in fact looking into this allegation, to see if there is any credibility to it. If there are any facts… we will share them.”

While some doubt that the UN would “share facts” about wrongdoing by its peacekeepers, given for example that the UN just airbrushed out from its final report allegations of inaction by Egyptian peacekeepers in Southern Kordofan. But even if the UN did report back on the allegations in Haiti, the UN does not state what happens to individual peacekeepers, by name or even nationality. The statement “any facts… we will share them” must be seen in that light.

Footnote: Speaking of seeing, Ban’s August 11 letter says he watched The Whistleblower with his senior advisers. Meanwhile, he has received but not watched the film Killing Fields of Sri Lanka, which along with addressing rape as a tool of war critiques Ban’s UN’s performance.

It’s worth nothing that dozens of Sri Lankan soldiers were repatriated from the UN mission in Haiti charged with sexual abuse, but the UN has never reported any accountability in Sri Lanka. Ban, Haq said, is “working from his home” this week; this was offered as a reason to cancel regular noon briefings, on August 16 and prospectively August 18 and beyond. And so it goes at (Ban’s) UN

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COMMENT: HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG

The UN has been involved in all sorts of crimes, since it was inflicted upon the Haitian people years ago. We have seen their involvement in the cocaine trade…..members of MINUSTAH have been involved in kidnapping…members of MINUSTAH have opened brothels using young Haitian boys and girls…and members of MINUSTAH have raped those who would not cooperate for a few pennies or a plate of rice and beans.

The most recent incident involves the Uruguayan detachment at Port Salut. Their conduct, if performed in the United States, would see them locked up for 10 – 20 years. Unfortunately, the poor of Haiti must tolerate the humiliations brought to them by the intellectually superior South Americans, supervised by the Korean moron Ban Ki Moon. Of course I am joking about the intellectually superior as I view a bunch of Spanish speaking peasants with assault rifles.

If they tried this in Ireland the gentle folk would cut the offenders’ balls off with bolt cutters.

We were inflicted by a team from Sri Lanka that imprisoned and sexually assaulted numbers of young women. When there were complaints, the officers and 100 men were sent home. To add insult to injury, the returning criminals were treated as heroes.

Martelly must move forward with his revival of the Forces Armees d’Haiti and take steps to eliminate the MINUSTAH from our land.

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