The World Bank failed to protect two employees who filed sexual-harassment allegations against a high-ranking official who is now a presidential candidate in Costa Rica, an internal tribunal found
The World Bank failed to protect two young employees who filed sexual-harassment allegations against a veteran, high-ranking official who is now a presidential candidate in Costa Rica, according to findings released by the bank’s internal labor tribunal.
Through his press secretary, Mr. Malpass declined to comment. A spokesperson said that the World Bank maintains confidentiality in ethics cases to protect staff members involved in allegations of misconduct and to preserve the integrity of investigations. Mr. Chaves denied that he sexually harassed female colleagues. The complaints likely originated from “cultural differences and behaviors that, for other people, would not be offensive,” he said.
Mr. Chaves said in response that the World Bank and the tribunal ruled that the investigation was fair, complete and impartial.andrew caballero-reynolds/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A World Bank research economist told investigators that in mid-2009, after several offers of coffee, lunch or a mentoring relationship, she agreed to meet Mr. Chaves for lunch. At the lunch, Mr. Chaves made a reference to having an orgy with six different animals and asked her directly whether she had ever cheated or had an affair with a married man.
Queried by the Journal, Mr. Chaves wrote that the lunchtime allegations referred to subjective perceptions of events that the woman found disturbing, but that there were no sexual advances or physical contact.In 2017, another female employee made a formal complaint about Mr. Chaves to the co-chair of the bank’s newly created working group on sexual harassment, prompting an investigation by the ethics department, according to the tribunal’s ruling.
In its decision letter, the human-resources department cited mitigating circumstances, such as Mr. Chaves’s “stellar” record during more than two decades of service and his winning, in 2010, a bank prize for “diversity and inclusion.” At the time he won, several women had already complained to senior staff about his harassment, according to the timeline of testimony received by the tribunal.
Senior management opposed the appeal, according to the tribunal’s later report, saying the women had no standing to take their case to the tribunal.
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