editor’s note: hopefully, this will assuage some of the fears over the decision of the United States to withdraw form the United Nations Human Rights Council. this rabbit hole goes deeeeeeeeeeeeeeep….. (meaning they – allegedly – be in on the very issue they claim to have zero tolerance for….)
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By Jina Moore
It took the woman one agonizing month to decide to report that she had been sexually assaulted by a colleague from the World Food Program, a United Nations agency, while working in Ethiopia.
It took the agency a week to investigate, concluding in a single-page document that it didn’t believe her.
Then, more than a year later, investigators asked her lurid questions about her sexual positions during the encounter, according to the case files.
She had no bruises or proof of force, and investigators concluded that her claim fell short of the legal definition of rape in Ethiopia and in the man’s native country.
On the world stage, the United Nations takes an uncompromising stance on sexual abuse, trumpeting a “zero tolerance” policy for infractions by its employees and condemning rape laws that require a woman to show injuries to prove that she did not consent.
But within the United Nations itself, the system for examining sexual misconduct by employees is so inconsistent that investigators sometimes use those same contentious laws to help guide their inquiries — a clear example, critics say, of the broad gap between the organization’s public pronouncements and its own practices.
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It’s a pile of pucky and the bystandered effect is over ruling. It is time we take matters into our own hands. The laws are obscurred and luciferian.
pucky is a very good word. i feel those luciferian laws are being terminated and replaced with true lawfulness.