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AuBC: UN chief quits over sex scandal - Not Kofi
2005-02-21
A LONG-running sexual harassment scandal has claimed the career of high-profile UN refugees chief Ruud Lubbers, a former Dutch prime minister and persistent critic of John Howard's hardline policies on asylum seekers.
Wouldn't that make him the guy in charge of al-Ein-Hellhole?
Mr Lubbers, 65, quit as high commissioner for refugees after a confidential UN internal report exposed him as a serial sexual harasser and groper.
Maybe that was him on the plane on the way home?
"You look tired, Miss. Here, let me hold those honkers for you!"
An investigation into Mr Lubbers was launched last April following a formal complaint by a 51-year-old American woman employed at the UN. The woman alleged Mr Lubbers grabbed her around the waist and thrust his groin into her buttocks as she was leaving a meeting at the Palais des Nations in Geneva the previous December.
Who'd he think he was, President of the U. S.?
That stuff may work with Belgian wimmin, but the day is past in the U.S.A.
The departure of Mr Lubbers also raises more questions about the judgment of embattled UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan,
Who thinks Kofi has judgement?
who backed the refugee chief and buried the report when it was handed to him last July. A spokesman for Mr Annan said the Secretary-General had accepted legal advice at the time that the allegations against Mr Lubbers could not substantiated. But the report, leaked to a British newspaper at the weekend, revealed that the allegations against Mr Lubbers went much further than Mr Annan had previously indicated. It cited five instances where Mr Lubbers had made unwelcome advances to female subordinates and said the conduct indicated "a pattern of sexual harassment". In one case, Mr Lubbers invited a female staffer to his home to discuss work matters but once she was there, he only wanted to discuss "personal matters". She fled when Mr Lubbers started "touching her in a sexual way".
"Hey! Are these your boobies?"
Posted by:Mrs. Davis

#3  But . . . how could someone from the UN be forced to resign like that? It's so terrible! I thought they were the only world body with any "moral authority" any more!

*Sound of world view crashing to pieces*
Posted by: The Doctor   2005-02-21 12:23:34 PM  

#2  That stuff may work with Begian wimmin, but the day is past in the U.S.A.

Tell that to Bill Clinton.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2005-02-21 11:26:53 AM  

#1  Wouldn’t that make him the guy in charge of al-Ein-Hellhole?

Nope. UNWRA is autonomous. After all, "Paestinians" are not refugees, they just temporary displaced (until the Zionist Entity is destroyed) wards of the UN.
Posted by: gromgoru   2005-02-21 11:20:37 AM  

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