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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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