Two members of the Colombian delegation at the annual UN Conference on Climate Change (COP 27), which has been held in the Egyptian city of Sharm El-Sheikh since last November 6, were reported for sexual harassment The Foreign Ministry reported this Saturday.
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“The Secretariat of COP 27 informed the Government of Colombia about a complaint against two members of the country’s delegation at this event, for alleged sexual harassment“, detailed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a brief statement.
Therefore, the information added, the Executive suspended the accreditations of these two people while the COP 27 Secretariat investigates what happened.
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“The National Government is emphatic in condemning and adopting the necessary measures in the face of any act of intimidation, harassment or violation of the rights of women“, added the Foreign Ministry, which did not give more details about what happened.
This complaint is known days after the journalist Juan Fernando Barona, who was part of the group of reporters that covers President Gustavo Petro and was at COP 27 with the president, was removed from the entourage for “complaints of gender violenceagainst him in Bogotá.
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Petro, at COP 27.
Colombian Presidency
Barona, who worked at News One, In the middle of which he was removed, he attacked his girlfriend in an elevator in his building in Bogotá with the complicity of another man, images that went viral on social networks and caused the rejection of Colombians.
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EFE
