Press releases and statements about AIDS-Free World's Code Blue campaign. Code Blue aims to end impunity for sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeeping personnel.
March 3, 2016: More victims reported last year than in 2014, says a new UN report. The Secretary-General’s answer? Leave crisis management to the top officials most responsible for the UN’s ‘gross institutional failure’ in handling peacekeeper sex abuse. Code Blue disagrees. (UN Photo / Eskinder Debebe)
January 29, 2016: The Code Blue campaign responds to the latest allegations of sexual abuse by peacekeepers in CAR, which make clear that the UN can't solve this crisis from within. (UN Photo / Mark Garten)
January 29, 2016: The latest allegations of peacekeeper sexual abuse reinforce our call for external oversight of the UN's response to the crisis. (UN Photo / Marie Frechon)
January 26, 2016: The Code Blue Campaign puts forth a new proposal to halt the peacekeeper sexual abuse that has plagued the UN for decades. (UN Photo/ JC McIlwaine)
December 17, 2015: AIDS-Free World responds to the CAR Panel report on the UN's flawed response to peacekeeper sex abuse.
December 16, 2015: AIDS-Free World calls on the UN to make public without delay the External Independent Review panel ('CAR Panel') report on peacekeeper sexual abuse in CAR and beyond. (UN Photo / Sylvain Liechti)
November 24, 2015: The Code Blue campaign calls for surplus peacekeeping funds to be transferred to the proposed trust fund for victims of sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeepers.
(UN Photo / Rick Bajornas)
24 novembre 2015: La campagne Code Blue recommande qu'un solde de trésorerie de l'ancien Mission des Nations Unies en République centrafricaine et au Tchad soit transféré à un fonds d’affectation spéciale pour les victimes proposé par le Secrétaire générale de l'ONU. (traduction de l'anglais)
(UN Photo / Rick Bajornas)
August 19, 2015: The Code Blue Campaign reacts to three new allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by MINUSCA peacekeepers in the Central African Republic.
(UN Photo / Sylvain Liechti)
AIDS-Free World responds to the resignation of the SRSG in Central African Republic, Ban's convening of special session to discuss sexual exploitation and abuse
July 26, 2017: Read Code Blue’s written submission to the External Independent Review Panal on the UN’s handling of sexual abuse allegations in the Central African Republic.
June 23, 2015: Today, Ban Ki-moon announced the members of an External Independent Review Panel that will look into the UN's handling of allegations of child sexual abuse in the Central African Republic. AIDS-Free World's Code Blue Campaign brought the allegations to The Guardian newspaper in April 2015, published additional leaked documents that garnered global attention in May 2015 and called for the panel's creation.
June 16, 2015: Code Blue reacts to the report of the High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations.
June 3, 2015: Code Blue statement in response to the creation of an External Independent Review panel to look into the UN's handling of child sexual abuse allegations in CAR.
May 29, 2015: AIDS-Free World has obtained several previously unreleased internal UN documents, memos, and emails that implicate high-level United Nations officials in ignoring documented child sex abuse by international peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR), of making no attempt to stop the ongoing crimes or protect children, and then attempting to cover up the UN’s inaction. (UN Photo / Jean-Marc Ferré).
May 29, 2015: The UN's Dirty Secret: The untold story of child sexual abuse in the Central African Republic and Anders Kompass. (UN Photo/Violaine Martin)
May 13, 2015: Today in New York, international advocacy organization AIDS-Free World officially launched the Code Blue Campaign to end impunity for sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeeping personnel. The launch featured Graça Machel, L.Gen. Roméo Dallaire, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, Theo Sowa and AIDS-Free World Co-Directors Paula Donovan and Stephen Lewis. (Photo: davidgoldmanphotography.com)
May 13, 2015: AIDS-Free World was joined by a group of international experts as it launched Code Blue, a campaign to end impunity for sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeepers. Download the press kit here.
March 16, 2017: AIDS-Free World releases leaked UN Expert Team Report showing a 'culture of silence' around sexual exploitation and abuse in the UN's four biggest peacekeeping missions and asks key questions about the way the Secretary-General's annual Special measures report on sexual exploitation and abuse.
