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U.N. Whistleblower Protection In Demand

posted by Anna-Maria Müller at 22h00 GMT on Sep 9

Two years after former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan implemented a new whistleblower protection concept within the Ethics Office of the United Nations, whistleblowers who claim to be fired over filing in complaints about incorrect internal UN procedures, request protection services from the Ethics Agency.

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