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.
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.
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.