For more than a year, the operations of the International Criminal Court have been left in limbo amid global crises as the institution has investigated sexual harassment allegations against its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.That case has reached a critical juncture. A team from the United Nations has investigated the allegations at the court’s request. Their findings were then reviewed by a panel of judges who evaluated the evidence.Though the U.N. investigators found evidence that Mr. Khan engaged in “non-consensual sexual contact” with a woman on his staff, the judges determined unanimously that the evidence did not meet the legal standard for misconduct. The New York Times obtained a copy of the judges’ report, which summarized the investigators’ findings but did not include the full document.
The legal bar for finding misconduct when a disciplinary action is in question is “super specific and very strict,” Mr. Jimenez Martinez said. But it aligns with what has been used in disciplinary proceedings for other high-ranking officials at various United Nations agencies.
Meaning, the UN is a place where you can sexually harass women and get away with it. You know, the same people who tell nations what is and isn't moral.
A description of the U.N. investigation in the judges’ report states that the woman who made the allegations was working under Mr. Khan as a special assistant at the time.
In her interviews with investigators, according to the judges’ description, she described escalating sexual overtures from her boss: First over-familiarity during a work trip to London, then touching in his office that turned into instances where “he would grab and paw at her breasts, try to access her pelvic area, and suck on her ear or neck.”
Eventually, according to her account, that progressed to sexual activity, both in his office and later on work trips. “The power dynamic between them meant that she could not say no to Mr. Khan,” the report says she told investigators.
[I]n early May 2024, Mr. Khan fretted that the allegations would wreck his career, witnesses told the U.N. investigators. One witness said Mr. Khan initially did not offer a defense, but jumped at the “lifeline” of an alternative narrative when another colleague present said he “suspected whether Mossad played a role behind the scenes,” the report said.
Seriously, the entire UN system must be dismantled.
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