A UN employee has accused a top organisation official of sexual assault and claimed that the world body failed to take her complaint seriously, the media reported.<\/p>\n
In an exclusive interview with CNN on Friday, Martina Brostrom accused Luiz Loures, a UN Assistant Secretary General, of grabbing her in a hotel elevator, forcibly kissing her and trying to drag her to his room during a conference in 2015.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was pleading with him, and I was just bracing with all that I could just to not leave the elevator,\u201d Brostrom, a policy advisor at UNAIDS, the organisation\u2019s global AIDS programme, told CNN.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat has happened to me, how the situation has been mishandled \u2013 it mustn\u2019t happen to any other woman,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Loures had co-operated with a 14-month investigation, which concluded that Brostrom\u2019s claims were unsubstantiated.<\/p>\n
But Brostrom has slammed the probe as \u201cdeeply flawed\u201d.<\/p>\n
Loures, who was also the deputy executive director of UNAIDS, is leaving the UN at the end of his contract this week.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for UNAIDS told CNN that the investigation into Brostrom\u2019s allegations followed \u201cdue process\u201d and she was welcome to appeal.<\/p>\n
Brostrom is one of three women to describe similar encounters with Loures.<\/p>\n
Malayah Harper, told CNN that Loures assaulted her in a strikingly similar way at a hotel in 2014.<\/p>\n
A third unidentified woman also complained of an assault a few years ago.<\/p>\n
Several people close to UNAIDS chief Michel Sidibe have said that they warned him about Loures over a period of at least three years.<\/p>\n
At a staff meeting in February, Sidibe denied being warned.<\/p>\n
He also praised Loures\u2019 decision to leave the UN as \u201ccourageous\u201d and attacked employees who spoke publicly about sexual harassment claims at the UN, saying \u201cthey don\u2019t have (a) moral approach\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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