UN’s culture of silence allows sexual harassment to continue

UN’s culture of silence allows sexual harassment to continue

By Rasna Warah

… In an article published this month in Forbes, Dr Lori Handrahan, a gender expert, says that when she raised the issue of a “food-for-sex” scandal at the refugee agency, UNHCR, she was ordered not to talk about it.

When her article on the sexual abuse of female refugees was published in The New York Times, she was warned that she would never work for UNHCR again. …

The Sickening Child Porn Crisis Infecting U.S. Government Agencies

The Sickening Child Porn Crisis Infecting U.S. Government Agencies

By Shane Harris

… Crimes against children aren’t limited by government agency or the profession of the offenders, who hail from the military, local law enforcement, and federal departments. “Child porn within our government agencies has reached crisis level,” Lori Handrahan, a researcher of child sex abuse cases, wrote in a recent blog post. Handrahan, who has documented other cases in and out of government, says large numbers of men are downloading child pornography frequently from their work computers. …

Is it Obama's fault that missile defence staff watch porn on government computers?

Is it Obama's fault that missile defence staff watch porn on government computers?

By Matt Blake

… In an article for The Washington TimesLori Handrahan linked the agency’s porn habits with the Secret Service’s Columbia prostitute scandal before relating both to a problem with Obama’s leadership.

‘The Colombia scandal was the president’s wake-up call. The White House needed to order an in-depth and urgent investigation into porn, child porn and prostitution in all government agencies. Mr. Obama did no such thing.

‘Now America’s Missile Defense Agency may be exposing the core of our national security,’ Handrahan, a professor at American University's School of International Service, wrote on Friday. …/