A World Health Organization physician was accused of sexual misconduct in October. Years earlier, the same doctor was the subject of a sexual harassment complaint, according to internal documents obtained by the AP.
, after AP reported that numerous staffers had accused him of racist and abusive behavior that compromised the U.N. agency’s response to COVID-19.
After she said goodbye, Waqanivalu “proceeded to give me a hug, grabbing my buttocks with both of his hands and trying to kiss my lips,” the woman said. She said she turned her head to avoid him and moved his hands. After submitting her confidential report to WHO’s “integrity hotline” in July 2018, the case was “tossed around in for months” among officials tasked with misconduct claims, an ombudsman wrote to the woman in an email obtained by the AP.Months after raising her concerns, the woman was informed by the WHO ombudman’s office that its director had decided to give Waqanivalu a general “informal warning” that didn’t reference the alleged misconduct.
“He is aware of the case ... the matter in hand,” the human resources director said in an email obtained by AP.In October, Waqanivalu sat on a panel at the World Health Summit in Berlin as part of a high-level conference with attendees including WHO chief Tedros, philanthropist Bill Gates, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron.
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