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The United Nations spokesperson informed on Wednesday that the international body has fired its first-ever technology envoy, Fabrizio Hochschild, after completing an internal accountability process concerning allegations of harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination against him.

The Chilean veteran diplomat Hochschild was placed on administrative leave in January 2021, just five days after being appointed to one of the highest-ranking roles at the UN – technology envoy to enlist global support for digital cooperation – by UN Secretary-General António Guterres when the internal investigation into accusations of abuse of authority and harassment was initiated.

It turned out that three women had filed complaints with the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services in the two months prior to Hochschild’s appointment, accusing him of abuse of authority and harassment in 2019 and 2020.

According to three sources cited in the media, Hochschild was accused of cre