UN's
Nakamitzu Tells Employers To
Judge Mothers On Output, Not
Presence, Hypocrisy at UN
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
March 8 – At the UN on
International Women's Day,
along with Secretary General
Antonio Guterres speechifying
on Facebook Live about
harassment in the workplace in
India while his UNFPA there
refuses to wave immunity for
the sexual harassment case
against UN official Diego
Palacio, there were some good
events. One had the UN's Izumi
Nakamitzu and others taking
questions from a conference
room full of mothers and young
children. Inner City Press
Periscope here.
Nakamitzu said, among other
things, that managers should
“judge people by their results
and output, rather than being
in the office, rather than
being there physically.” This
is directly contradicted by
one of her interlocutors'
impending dismissal of a long
time staffer, and mother,
ostensibly to find a
replacement that can “be bale
[sic] to travel on short
notice to cover breaking news”
noting “ability to communicate
in Japanese is a plus, but not
a must.” We'll have more on
this. And this: at the March 8
UN noon noon briefing, Inner
City Press asked Guterres'
spokesman Stephane Dujarric,
UN transcript here:
since it's International
Women's Day, got to ask this
one. In Côte d'Ivoire,
it's reported that… that on
International Women's Day
itself, the labor law is being
updated to ban women from
working at jobs “where the
work exceeds the physical
capacity of women or work that
presents danger, that is
unlikely to under… or is
likely to undermine their mor…
their morality, including
working underground or in
mines”. So many people
are saying this is kind of
inconsistent with the trends
that the Secretary-General and
others have been speaking
about… Spokesman: I
don't have the details of the
particular law, but it is
clear to us that women can and
should be able to have any
employment they so choose.
Inner City Press: And
when he did his Facebook Live
thing yesterday… I
wanted to ask you this.
He seemed to take a question,
I guess, online about India,
and he said he's very
committed to no double
standards and… in the
workplace. And, as you
know, UN… UNFPA [United
Nations Population Fund] in
India is citing immunity in a…
in a… in a… in a now widely
publicized case.
Spokesman: I would ask
UNFPA." Ah, leadership. We'll
have more on all this. Watch
this site.
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