Exclusive: U.N. staffer who complained of sexual assault loses dismissal case - documents


  • World
  • Tuesday, 23 Mar 2021

FILE PHOTO: Martina Brostrom, former policy adviser at UNAIDS, poses in front of the agency in Geneva, Switzerland, August 3, 2020. Picture taken August 3, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

GENEVA (Reuters) - A policy adviser who filed a sexual assault complaint and was later fired by the U.N. agency fighting AIDS has lost an appeal against her dismissal for misconduct and been refused a copy of an investigation into her alleged assault, documents show.

Martina Brostrom, 41, from Sweden, was fired for sexual and financial misconduct in December 2019. She denies the charges and says her dismissal was in retaliation for reporting a sexual assault by a senior official at UNAIDS.

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