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One third of UN staff have been sexually harassed

One in three United Na­tions work­ers have been sex­u­ally ha­rassed over the last two years ac­cord­ing to a re­port from the UN’s New York head­quar­ters (based on a sur­vey car­ried out by De­loitte). Only 30,364 peo­ple re­sponded to the sur­vey in No­vem­ber, 17% of the total num­ber of staff who were el­i­gi­ble to do so. UN Sec­re­tary Gen­eral António Guter­res at­trib­uted the low par­tic­i­pa­tion in the sur­vey to an “on­go­ing sense of mis­trust, per­cep­tions of in­ac­tion and lack of ac­count­abil­ity” within the UN..

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