In October 2013, Florin Postica and Ai Loan Nguyen-Kropp won a public hearing with a UN Judge ruling that "Two whistle-blowers exposed evidence-tampering by a top official within the UN office who is supposed to investigate corruption in the world body's operations and suffered retaliation for it."
[4] In November 2014, Peter A. Gallo[5] filed a lawsuit [6] in the Manhattan Supreme Court against his supervisor that he was allegedly defamed, falsely accused of crimes and subjected to discipline, all in retaliation for charging his boss with misconduct.
The Director of the Ethics Office, Elia Yi Armstrong,[7] was appointed in August 2015 by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
[11] Under ST/SGB/2005/21, any UN staff member is entitled to protection if they: The role of the Ethics Office is to conduct a preliminary investigation to determine if a prima facie case of retaliation exists.
[12] More recent whistleblowers include Aicha Elbasri, Caroline Hunt-Matthes,[13] Florin Postica, Ai Loan Nguyen-Kropp[14] and Peter A. Gallo.