In Their Own Words -- Caplan
Posted May 26, 2015
— “IN THEORY THE UN CHERISHES AND PROTECTS WHISTLEBLOWERS. IN PRACTICE, A CLUBBY ATMOSPHERE PREVAILS IN WHICH DISSENT COUNTS AS DISLOYALTY.”
Africa scholar Gerald Caplan, quoting the Economist, in his opinion piece on the failings of the United Nations to protect whistleblowers, noting “the UN’s Ethics Office, which examines complaints of retaliation against whistleblowers, received 297 such complaints between 2006 and 2012 [and] sided fully with the whistleblower just once.” Click here for more.
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