Experts launch ‘Code Blue,’ demand end to UN immunity when peacekeepers commit sexual exploitation and abuse

Experts launch ‘Code Blue,’ demand end to UN immunity when peacekeepers commit sexual exploitation and abuse

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)

Press Kit: Code Blue Launch

Press Kit: Code Blue Launch

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.

UN Experts’ unseen peacekeeping report: sexual exploitation and abuse

UN Experts’ unseen peacekeeping report: sexual exploitation and abuse

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.