(Press-News.org) A third of surveyed United Nations staff working in Geneva report having personally experienced racial discrimination, and a third having witnessed colleagues being racially discriminated against
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0295715
Article Title: Racial discrimination within United Nations offices in Geneva: Results from an online survey
Author Countries: Germany, USA
Funding: The article was produced as part of the project "Racism and Mental Health: A Qualitative Study with Humanitarian Workers". The project is led by the first author (H.S.) and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); grant number 01KA2215. The funder did not play any role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. BMBF project website: https://www.gesundheitsforschung-bmbf.de/de/rassismus-und-psychische-gesundheit-eine-qualitative-studie-mit-humanitaren-helfenden-15897.php.
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A third of surveyed United Nations staff working in Geneva report having personally experienced racial discrimination, and a third having witnessed colleagues being racially discriminated against
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