{"id":21415,"date":"2023-04-24T12:59:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T12:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/who-dismisses-manager-after\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T12:59:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T12:59:39","slug":"who-dismisses-manager-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/who-dismisses-manager-after\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO dismisses manager after sexual misconduct findings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA (Reuters) &#8211;     The World Health Organization said on Monday it had dismissed one of its senior managers for sexual misconduct following an investigation prompted by a complaint by a junior British doctor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Temo Waqanivalu has been dismissed from WHO following findings of sexual misconduct against him and corresponding disciplinary process,&#8221; WHO spokesperson Marcia Poole said in an emailed response to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Waqanivalu, a Fijian doctor who headed a unit on noncommunicable diseases at the global health agency&#8217;s Geneva headquarters, did not immediately respond to a request to comment via telephone or email. <\/p>\n<p>A source familiar with the proceedings said Waqanivalu had denied the allegations throughout the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sexual misconduct of any kind by anyone working for WHO &#8211; be it as staff, consultant, partner &#8211; is unacceptable,&#8221; Poole added in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Waqanivalu could appeal internally to the WHO and, failing that, to a tribunal at the International Labour Organization (ILO), Poole said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Rosie James, who works for England&#8217;s National Health Service, made her complaint in a Twitter message in October last year.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Miranda Murray and Andrew Heavens)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/who-dismisses-manager-after\/the-who-logo-is-pictured-in-geneva\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3N0DS-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3N0DS-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA (Reuters) &#8211; The World Health Organization said on Monday it had dismissed one of its senior managers for sexual misconduct following an investigation prompted by a complaint by a junior British doctor. &#8220;Temo Waqanivalu has been dismissed from WHO following findings of sexual misconduct against him and corresponding disciplinary process,&#8221; WHO spokesperson Marcia Poole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3N0DS-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21417,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21415\/revisions\/21417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}