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Article: UNITED NATIONS: U.N. ACCUSED OF REVERSE DISCRIMINATION
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- December 5, 1996
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Thalif Deen
Inter Press Service English News Wire
12-05-1996
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 4 (IPS) -- A U.N. watchdog body is accusing
the United Nations of practicing reverse discrimination by hiring
women over men as it rushes towards gender parity in the
organization.
The Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) says that while it concedes the
need to improve the status of women within the United Nations, it
deplores the haste with which the policy is being implemented. The
JIU even charges that current measures violate the U.N. charter.
"In his attempts to push ahead to gender parity by the year
2000, the Secretary-General (Boutros Boutros-Ghali) has introduced
a number of measures, which give automatic ...