Meanwhile, elsewhere in the forest…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has placed a senior scientist on administrative leave following a series of complaints of a sexual nature, including an allegation he removed his trousers in the presence of a female colleague.
Aw come on, where’s ya sensa yuma?
The Telegraph has learnt that Dr Maurizio Barbeschi, who led the agency’s Health Security Interface Unit and was a senior advisor to WHO executive director Dr Mike Ryan, was put on leave in late 2021 after a series of complaints were made against him – some stretching back 20 years.
Cool. The complaints go back 20 years, and they suspended him more than a year ago, but nothing more has been done.
An internal investigation is ongoing, but several of those who officially reported Dr Barbeschi in January 2020 are angry the UN agency has not moved to resolve the matter more quickly.
More quickly than three years.
Former colleagues and WHO consultants described the culture within Dr Barbeschi’s team as a “misogynistic pissing circle” and it’s claimed his inappropriate behaviour had been an open secret for years.
Misogyny never goes away, it just moves its pieces around the board now and then.
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Mind, there’s no need to harm his career unnecessarily, and we also need to consider his family. We’re not barbarians.
Hey, at least someone in the UN still knows what a woman is. If anyone else there isn’t sure, they only have to ask their misogynist colleagues; they’ll always know. Just like theocrats and predators.
Probably the old “boys will be boys” excuse was used freely, to explain his behavior.
This shit won’t stop until there is universal zero tolerance for it.
Which is almost certainly not going to happen in my lifetime. If it does, I promise I will make every regular commenter on this site a cheesecake.
Make mine cherry, please.
My dream cheesecake, that is.