Abuse of power. Toxic work culture. Harassment. Discriminatory bias.
These are just a sample of the allegations that scores of staffers at the International Trade Centre leveled at senior management in a survey produced by the Geneva-based United Nations Staff Union in December.
The online survey — which revealed responses from 196 current and past employees and contractors to questions about whether they had witnessed inappropriate conduct — paints a damning portrait of morale at a little-known U.N. agency that provides trade advice to low- and middle-income countries. It is a subsidiary of the better-known World Trade Organization and U.N. Conference on Trade and Development.