June 21, 2022: A new BBC documentary highlights the UN Organization’s repeated attempts to silence whistleblowers among its ranks. (UN Photo/Mark Garten)
May 26, 2022: Former UN staff member Karim Elkorany has pled guilty to drugging and/or sexually assaulting 19 victims in Iraq and the US while he was employed by the UN Organization.
May 23, 2022: The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women has published a report decrying the World Health Organization’s mishandling of its recent jobs-for-sex scandal in DRC.
January 27, 2022: The UN Secretary-General has fired Tech Envoy and USG Fabrizio Hochschild following an OIOS probe into allegations of sexual harassment, financial misconduct, bullying, and abuse of power. (UN Photo / Eskinder Debebe)
October 26, 2021: Burundi is pushing the UN to increase the number of troops serving in MINUSCA—the UN’s peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic—despite the government’s lack of attention to sexual exploitation and abuse committed by their soldiers.
October 20, 2021: PassBlue reports that UN Tech Envoy Fabrizio Hochschild faces allegations of creating a hostile work environment, and acts of racial and gender discrimination (including sexual harassment). (UN Photo / Manuel Elías)
September 28, 2021: The World Health Organization scrambles to do damage control in the wake of a scathing report on sexual exploitation and abuse committed by its personnel in DRC.
September 15, 2021: The UN announced its plan to repatriate 450 Gabonese peacekeepers following “exceptionally serious” allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse committed in the Central African Republic. (UN Photo)
September 6, 2021: Internal emails acknowledge that that the behavior of a former top UNAIDS official—presumed to be Luiz Loures—toward women was “unacceptable” and was permitted by a culture which allowed misconduct. (Photo: UNAIDS)
July 26, 2021: Dozens of women told reporters that men demanded sex in exchange for food aid—aid that is provided largely by the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
May 28, 2021: At the World Health Assembly this week, UN Member States expressed frustration with the World Health Organization’s mishandling of widespread sexual exploitation and abuse committed by their personnel in DRC. (UN Photo/Manuel Elías)
May 14, 2021: World Health Organization leadership has been accused of covering up allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse against women in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the country’s 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak.
April 19, 2021: Read the explosive critique of the UN's response to its crisis of sexual exploitation and abuse.
March 12, 2021: In a breakthrough ruling, a court in Jacmel, Haiti, has ordered child support to be paid on behalf of a child fathered by a UN peacekeeper. (UN Photo/Loey Felipe)
March 5, 2021: Prominent human rights lawyer Yasmin Sooka highlights the rampant impunity for sexual exploitation and abuse committed by Sri Lankan peacekeepers, and argues that the country should no longer be allowed to serve in UN peacekeeping missions. (UN Photo/Mark Garten)
January 13, 2021: A report released by the UK Parliament’s International Development Committee highlights the continued crisis of sexual exploitation and abuse in the aid sector, and draws attention to the UN’s misuse of immunity to protect perpetrators.
December 8, 2020: Human Rights Watch calls on the UN Security Council to continue monitoring the human rights situation in Burundi, which has shown no sign of improvement under new president Evariste Ndayishimiye. (UN Photo / Loey Felipe)
December 4, 2020: The second investigation into the UNAIDS sex offense scandal has concluded, but the UN refuses to share its findings with victims or the public. (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
September 29, 2020: The New Humanitarian and the Thomson Reuters Foundation uncover widespread sexual exploitation and abuse in DRC during the Ebola outbreak response, including allegations of WHO personnel demanding sex in exchange for jobs. (UN Photo / Victoria Hazou)
December 17, 2019: Researchers Sabine Lee and Susan Bartels summarize the findings of their research into widespread sexual exploitation and abuse in Haiti by UN peacekeepers. (UN Photo / Stuart Price)