October 2018: The latest news and updates from the Code Blue Campaign. (Photo: Screenshot of DFID Safeguarding Summit)
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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)
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)
January, 2017: For two months, the Code Blue Campaign has sought answers from the UN on how it handles sex abuse allegations against its own personnel. For two months, the UN has obfuscated and stonewalled. Read the full correspondence. (UN Photo / Cia Pak)
December 22, 2017: Code Blue responds to a letter from Atul Khare, the UN's Under-Secretary-General for Field Support. (UN Photo / Manuel Elias)
September 13, 2017 — A confidential source has provided AIDS-Free World’s Code Blue Campaign with internal case files that offer a rare glimpse into what really happens when the UN learns of violations of a sexual nature allegedly committed by peacekeepers. (UN Photo / Sylvain Liechti)
June 6, 2017: The Code Blue Campaign has learned that a notorious battalion in the Central African Republic has been repeatedly flagged as a potential hive of dangerous predators. By failing to act, the UN is setting the stage for future abuse and placing women and children in harm's way. In an open letter to the UN Secretary-General, Code Blue's Paula Donovan and Stephen Lewis demand action. (Photo: UN / MINUSCA)
April 10, 2017: MEDIA ALERT: New revelations from children abused by peacekeepers. (Photo: SVT)
March 10, 2017: The Secretary-General asked for "game-changing strategies" on addressing sexual exploitation and abuse, but the new Special measures report on protection from sexual exploitation and abuse fails to deliver. (UN Photo / Violaine Martin)
July 29, 2016: As media reports detail horrific stories of mass rapes in South Sudan while peacekeepers stand idly by, Code Blue wonders whether any of the messages about the meaning of zero tolerance are sinking in. (UN Photo / Nektarios Markogiannis)
July 28, 2016: Together with 36 other civil society organizations from around the world, we call upon the candidates for UN Secretary-General to pledge their commitment to building a more accountable and transparent United Nations by signing the UN Accountability Pledge.
April 13, 2016: Code Blue has learned of an additional 41 previously unreported allegations of peacekeeper sexual abuse of women and girls in the Central African Republic. (UN Photo / Nektarios Markogiannis)
April 11, 2016: Yasmin Sooka, External Independent Review Panel on UN Response to Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Foreign Military Forces in CAR ('CAR Panel') and Paula Donovan, Code Blue Campaign will host an online press conference on Monday, April 11 at 13:30 GMT.
March 30, 2016: New information obtained by Code Blue reveals huge undisclosed numbers of previously unreported peacekeeper sexual abuse in CAR. (Photo: Aekkaphob/Shutterstock)
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 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.
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