October 22, 2021: Co-Director Paula Donovan reacts to the WHO’s plan to address sexual exploitation and abuse by its personnel. (UN Photo/Manuel Elías)
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.
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October 22, 2021: Co-Director Paula Donovan reacts to the WHO’s plan to address sexual exploitation and abuse by its personnel. (UN Photo/Manuel Elías)
June 8, 2021: The Office of Internal Oversight Services issued a scathing critique of the UN’s approach to its ongoing sexual exploitation and abuse crisis. In this piece, Code Blue responds. (UN Photo/Rick Bajornas)
March 19, 2021: Today’s UN press conference announcing the release of the Secretary-General’s annual Special Measures Report steered clear of hard facts in favor of frivolous distractions.
June 1, 2020: The UN's highest-ranking official dedicated to addressing sexual exploitation and abuse committed by UN personnel—Jane Holl Lute, who serves at the Under-Secretary-General level—appears to be no longer actively engaged in her role. (UN Photo / Loey Felipe)
5 mars 2020 : Dans un nouveau rapport, la Code Blue Campaign présente un récit étayant notre point de vue selon lequel les troupes du régime de Pierre Nkurunziza au Burundi n'ont pas leur place dans les opérations de maintien de la paix de l'ONU. (Crédit photo / Adrienne Surprenant)
March 5, 2020: In a new report, the Code Blue Campaign lays out a narrative substantiating our view that troops from the Pierre Nkurunziza regime in Burundi do not belong in UN Peacekeeping. (Photo credit / Adrienne Surprenant)
December 20, 2019: Unresolved paternity claims stemming from sexual exploitation and abuse committed by UN peacekeepers are an endemic problem. (UN Photo / Marie Frechon)
December 19, 2019: Code Blue Legal and Policy Advisor Sharanya Kanikkannan calls out UNAIDS’ retaliatory behavior against Martina Brostrom—behavior aimed at silencing victims of sexual assault. (Photo: CNN)
July 16, 2019: In a new letter to the UN Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations, the Code Blue Campaign calls on the UN to repatriate Burundian peacekeepers serving in the Central African Republic, ending a deployment that earns the brutal and autocratic regime millions of dollars and puts innocent civilians at risk. (UN Photo / Marco Dormino)
May 31, 2019: The UN’s Victims’ Rights Advocate convened an expert workshop to discuss a proposed statement of victims’ rights, but excluded experts with specialized knowledge of sexual exploitation and abuse by UN personnel. (UN Photo / Nektarios Markogiannis)
December 3, 2018: AIDS-Free World has learned that the leadership of UNAIDS is actively working to suppress a report produced by an Independent Expert Panel (IEP) appointed to look into sexual harassment, bullying, and abuse of power at the UN agency. (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
October 2018: The latest news and updates from the Code Blue Campaign. (Photo: Screenshot of DFID Safeguarding Summit)
October 17, 2018: In an open letter addressed to the UK’s Secretary of State for International Development on the eve of the "International Safeguarding Summit" in London, Code Blue’s Paula Donovan raises fundamental concerns about and objections to the organization of the conference. (Photo: UN WebTV)
September 26, 2018: In an Op-ed published in Inter Press Service, Code Blue’s Paula Donovan takes on the UN’s handling of an investigation into sexual harassment of a senior UN Women official—demonstrating the UN’s inability to remedy its sex abuse crisis from within. (UN Photo / Cia Pak)
August 16, 2018: After Prashanti Tiwari filed a criminal complaint against UNFPA’s Representative in India and Bhutan, Diego Palacios, the UN asserted immunity, falsely claiming that the accused is immune from legal process. A report detailing the findings of the internal UN investigation provides incontrovertible evidence that UNFPA is in the throes of a concerted effort to block criminal justice. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
July 31, 2018: Read our open letter to Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of UNFPA, on an ongoing case of sexual assault and sexual harassment by a UNFPA official in India. (UN Photo/Manuel Elias)
July 2018: In the inaugural issue of the Code Blue Bulletin, we provide updates on our multi-faceted advocacy. Read about Paula Donovan's appearance before the UK Parliament, our "community consultation" in Sierra Leone, a troubling case of UN immunity in India, problems with the UN's Victims' Rights Advocate, the latest on the ongoing UNAIDS scandal, and Saramba Kandeh's appearance at a Nairobi conference. (Photo: UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office)
July 9, 2018: In May 2018, Code Blue held its first “Community Consultation” in Sierra Leone, hearing from over 100 residents of Mile 91, a town in the country’s Northern Province. (Photo: ©AIDS-Free World)
April 27, 2018: Code Blue’s Paula Donovan and Stephen Lewis react to UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ decision to open a new OIOS investigation into sexual assault and sexual harassment claims against UNAIDS Assistant-Secretary-General Luiz Loures. (UN Photo / JC McIlwaine)
March 16, 2018: The Code Blue Campaign writes an open letter to Atul Khare, UN Under-Secretary-General for Field Support, detailing our concerns about the case of an international staff member in the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) who was accused of multiple rapes of a child. (UN Photo / Ryan Brown)