{"id":262143,"date":"2020-07-18T06:40:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T10:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=262143"},"modified":"2020-07-18T06:40:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T10:40:22","slug":"ex-ph-envoy-to-sokor-accused-of-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/18\/ex-ph-envoy-to-sokor-accused-of-sexual-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-PH envoy to SoKor accused of sexual harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31549\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31549\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_133751864.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31549 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_133751864.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_133751864.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_133751864-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_133751864-900x602.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_133751864-600x401.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Friday, South Korea&#8217;s Yonhap News Agency reported that the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) has placed the Filipino official on its watch list &#8220;for alleged harassment of a South Korean woman&#8221; while serving in South Korea last December.\u00a0 (Shutterstock photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Saturday confirmed that a sexual harassment complaint was filed against a former Filipino Ambassador to South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The agency did not identify the envoy but said the Philippine embassy in Seoul received the complaint in February when the latter was in Manila on official business.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint was then referred to the DFA, which tasked its Committee on Decorum and Investigation (CODI) to look into the allegation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Department is committed to ensuring that justice is rendered in this case. It also remains committed to cultivating and preserving a work environment where all personnel are treated with respect and dignity, and free from harassment of any kind,&#8221; it said in a media statement.<\/p>\n<p>The department said both the complainant and the former diplomat cooperated with the proceedings conducted by the investigating Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said the ambassador tendered his resignation from the service effective March 16.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, South Korea&#8217;s Yonhap News Agency reported that the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) has placed the Filipino official on its watch list &#8220;for alleged harassment of a South Korean woman&#8221; while serving in South Korea last December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Saturday confirmed that a sexual harassment complaint was filed against a former &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":31549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262144,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262143\/revisions\/262144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}