Posted on 10/19/2005 3:01:08 PM PDT by SmithL
UNITED NATIONS -- A United Nations employee whose sexual harassment claims led former refugee chief Ruud Lubbers to resign now alleges that she was the target of retaliation, and plans to sue him and Secretary-General Kofi Annan, she said Wednesday.
Cynthia Brzak, 52, said she hopes her case against Annan and Lubbers, the former prime minister of the Netherlands, will set a precedent example for whistleblowers in the U.N. who believe its internal justice system doesn't protect them against punishment.
"My goal is that I don't think anyone in the world is above the law," Brzak said in an interview with The Associated Press. "If it's the prime minister of the United Kingdom or the president of the United States, nobody's above the law — except in the U.N., they are above the law."
Brzak alleges that in the year and a half since she filed her claims against Lubbers — claims backed by U.N. internal investigators — she has been denied performance evaluations, given an unfair workload and humiliated when Lubbers purportedly disclosed confidential information from her medical file about her and her family.
Officials at the U.N. High Commission for Refugees, where Brzak has worked for 25 years, tried to get her to accept a job in Amman, Jordan, and have denied her a meeting with Lubbers' replacement, Antonio Guterres, she said.
Lubbers, who has denied both the harassment and retaliation claims in the past, could not immediately be reached for comment.
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They will appoint a commission and have a report late 2009.
"If it's the prime minister of the United Kingdom or the president of the United States, nobody's above the law ....."
That is the currently untrue set of beliefs derived from the Constitution we have that no one upholds any longer.
In this country Dem elites are exempt and Republicans are the ones that exempt them, starting with the WH.
Just think, if she wins the lawsuit our tax dollars will pay her.
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