<div dir="auto">+1 besides the following is still an option:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><i style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">"make ICANN Organization's Human Resources department available to assist in complaints where the complainant has indicated a preference to engage with a person of a different gender than the current Ombudsman."</i></div><div dir="auto"><i style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></i></div><div dir="auto"><i style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">Regards</i></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 Mar 2017 07:15, "James Gannon" <<a href="mailto:james@cyberinvasion.net">james@cyberinvasion.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 28, 2017 12:23 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" target="_blank">NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: The anti-harassment policy<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Thanks for sharing, Farzi. It is great that it passed. But perhaps someone can elaborate how the Ombudsperson has (again) become the main mediator in the event of (alleged) harassment? Especially,
after we had long conversations on the list about finding alternatives to such a centralized solution. See: <a href="http://lists.ncuc.org/pipermail/ncuc-discuss/2016-November/019562.html" target="_blank">http://lists.ncuc.org/<wbr>pipermail/ncuc-discuss/2016-<wbr>November/019562.html</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:14 PM, farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com" target="_blank">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:#444444">Web: <a href="http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/corinne-cath" target="_blank">
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