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NEW DELHI: : The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has taken cognisance of a complaint filed by a woman against the director of the Heinrich Boll Foundation, India, Clemiss Spiess, for alleged harassment. The DCW has written to the police asking them to ensure that Mr. Spiess does not leave the country till the case has been resolved. Claiming that she had suffered repeated "racial'' harassment at the hands of her German boss, the complainant alleged that Mr. Spiess was trying to get her to resign because she was Indian. "We had been told that the recruitment rules were changing and it would be a more centralised German model. The organisation also made it clear that Indians would not be included in the decision making process. The previous head of the organisation who was an Indian also resigned citing racial discrimination as the reason as a director was brought in from Germany,'' she stated. An international non-government organisation that is headquartered in Berlin, the Heinrich Boll Foundation has been operating from Delhi for the past three years. Working in the field of democracy, multiculturalism, pluralism, ecology and gender, the Foundation has only a small office in the Capital. Having worked as a programme director with the Foundation for one year, the complainant claimed that she had been pressured by the director to submit her resignation so that a person of German descent could take over from her. However, her refusal to put in her papers and her filing a compliant with the National Human Rights Commission had brought things to a head.
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