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Ruud Lubbers, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, speaks to reporters at the U.N. headquarters in New York on February 18, 2005, two days before he resigned. (UN Photo by Eskinder Debebe)
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(CNSNews.com) – An American employee of the United Nations says she cannot understand how the U.S. court system can allow the U.N. to be “above the law.” The comment follows a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court not to hear her case alleging sexual harassment by a top U.N. official.
Cynthia Brzak questioned the implications of absolute immunity for other cases of wrongdoing by U.N. officials, from the Iraq oil scandal to the sexual exploitation and rape of African women and children in exchange for food.
“The United Nations is an organization, not a government,” she said Tuesday. “How can the U.S. allow an organization to be above and beyond the law? This is a stain on all Americans say we stand for.”
Brzak claims that Ruud Lubbers, the then U.N. high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), groped her in a sexual manner as she left a business meeting in his Geneva office in 2003.
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