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)
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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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)
August 11, 2020: In an opinion piece published in Devex, Code Blue legal and policy advisor Sharanya Kanikkannan highlights the failures of the UN’s internal justice system and argues for transparent and accessible accountability mechanisms. (UN Photo / Manuel Elias)
January 20, 2020: Izzy Tod looks back on the UN’s internal gender politics on the 100th anniversary of the League of Nations' founding, in a guest post that first appeared in Cherwell, Oxford’s independent student newspaper. (UN Photo / Mark Garten)
March 19, 2019: The UN pays more than $13 million a year to Burundi for 767 peacekeepers, giving a government under investigation for crimes against humanity vital support for its campaign of mass rape and murder. (UN Photo / Martine Perret)
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)