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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September 13, 2017: Case summaries of 14 internal fact-finding inquiries of sexual exploitation and abuse complaints conducted by the United Nations mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) in 2016 that were leaked to the Code Blue Campaign. (Photo: UN 'Keepers' case files).
June 20, 2017: The Code Blue Campaign responds to the decision to withdraw Congo/Brazzaville troops from the Central African Republic. (UN Photo/Nektarios Markogiannis)
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 12, 2017: Shocking new revelations about what happened to children sexually abused in the Central African Republic by peacekeepers were revealed in a Code Blue Campaign press conference today. (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)
October 13, 2016: The Code Blue Campaign is advocating for a new, independent system of special courts to deal with sexual abuse by UN peacekeeping personnel. This solution will provide impartial justice for victims, the accused, and the battered populations who currently have no real recourse to justice.
July 28, 2016: 37 Civil society groups call on UN Secretary-General candidates to take 5-part Accountability Pledge on sexual exploitation and abuse, cholera. (UN Photo / Evan Schneider)
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)
Le 13 avril 2016: Le siège de l'ONU a pris connaissance le 7 Avril de 41 nouvelles allégations d’abus sexuel commis par des Forces de maintien de la paix sur des femmes et des filles. (UN Photo / Nektarios Markiogiannis)
March 30, 2016: New information obtained by Code Blue reveals huge undisclosed numbers of previously unreported peacekeeper sexual abuse in CAR. (Photo: Aekkaphob/Shutterstock)
March 3, 2016: More victims reported last year than in 2014, says a new UN report. The Secretary-General’s answer? Leave crisis management to the top officials most responsible for the UN’s ‘gross institutional failure’ in handling peacekeeper sex abuse. Code Blue disagrees. (UN Photo / Eskinder Debebe)
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 16, 2015: AIDS-Free World calls on the UN to make public without delay the External Independent Review panel ('CAR Panel') report on peacekeeper sexual abuse in CAR and beyond. (UN Photo / Sylvain Liechti)
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
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: 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.
