The latest news on UN sexual offenses, including analysis about sexual exploitation and abuse by United Nations personnel in the Central African Republic, Haiti, and beyond.
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April 20, 2017: In an Op-ed, Code Blue's Paula Donovan makes the case for a new and independent judicial mechanism to deal with the UN's fundamental conflict of interest in dealing with sexual abuse allegations lodged against its own peacekeeping personnel. (UN Photo / Mark Garten)
April 18, 2017: After new details emerged about what happened to children who were sexually abused by UN peacekeeping personnel and French Sangaris troops in the Central African Republic, George Russel spoke to a UNICEF spokesperson, who carefully pushed back on claims that the UN neglected victims of abuse. The Code Blue Campaign's Paula Donovan commented on the fundamental conflict of interest faced by the UN in dealing with sexual exploitation and abuse claims. (UN Photo / Marie Frechon)
April 16, 2017: The Code Blue Campaign's Paula Donovan discusses new details about what happened to the children who were sexually abused by peacekeeping personnel in the Central African Republic, on RTÉ 'This Week'. (UN Photo / Tobin Jones)
April 14, 2017: IPS' Tharanga Yakupitiyage reports from the Code Blue Campaign press conference, detailing new reports of the UN's mishandling of its response to sexual exploitation and abuse allegations in the Central African Republic. (UN Photo / Staton Winter)
April 13, 2017: The Code Blue Campaign's Paula Donovan speaks to CBC Radio 'As It Happens' on new revelations regarding sexual exploitation and abuse of Haitian children by UN peacekeepers. (UN Photo / Logan Abassi)
April 12, 2017: AP investigation reveals an internal UN report detailing new allegations of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers in Haiti. (UN Photo / Logan Abassi)
March 22, 2017: Al Jazeera's Fault Lines interviews victims of sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeeping personnel in Haiti. (UN Photo / Logan Abassi)
February 1, 2017: In a post on The Washington Post's 'Monkey Cage' blog, Anjali Dayal examines the possible implications of a draft executive order from the Trump administration, calling for steep funding cuts to the United Nations, including U.S. support for UN peace operations. (UN Photo / Martine Perret)
January 6, 2017: The New York Times reports on the decision by a panel of French judges, not to bring charges against French 'Sangaris' soldiers accused of having sexually abused children while on serving in a peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic. In this article, reporter Benoît Morenne cites AIDS-Free World's role in publicly exposing the case in April 2015 and Code Blue's Paula Donovan comments on the dropped charges. (UN Photo / Martine Perret)
January 4, 2017: Earlier this week, media reported that there had been no indictments following a lengthy investigation into peacekeeper sexual abuse by French soldiers in the Central African Republic. Paula Donovan, co-director of AIDS-Free World and the Code Blue Campaign, spoke about the investigations with the BBC's Focus on Africa. (DavidGoldmanPhotography.com)
December 5, 2016: The Guardian's Sandra Laville reports on the conclusion of the UN's investigation into allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers in the Central African Republic dating back to 2014-2015. Code Blue's Paula Donovan comments on the 'flawed system' currently in place at the United Nations' and calls for the establishment of special courts to better deal with sexual abuse allegations against peacekeepers. (UN Photo / Basile Zoma)
September 20, 2016: Former UN Bureau Chief for The New York Times, Barbara Crossette, reflects on Ban Ki-moon's 10 years as UN Secretary-General, in The Nation. In her analysis, Crossette highlights the influential role played by key civil society advocates on the United Nations during Ban's tenure, including AIDS-Free World and its Code Blue Campaign's efforts to expose sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeeping personnel. (UN Photo / Rick Bajornas)
September 8, 2016: Reporting from the UN Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial in London, The Guardian quotes UN Special Envoy Angelina Jolie's call for prosecution of peacekeepers who commit abuses and Code Blue's Paula Donovan on the United Nations' conflict of interest when it comes to investigating and prosecuting allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers. (UN Photo / Mark Garten)
August 31, 2016: In late August 2016, The New York Times initially reported the United Nations' long-overdue admission of peacekeepers' role in the initial outbreak of cholera in Haiti nearly six years ago. (UN Photo / UNICEF / Marco Dormino)
August 28, 2016: In an Op-Ed for Al Jazeera, Lauren Caraskic, Director of the International Human Rights Clinic at Western New England University School of Law, calls on candidates for Secretary-General to "commit to accountability." (UN Photo / Evan Schneider)
August 1, 2016: In July 2016, Canadian media reported new details regarding allegations against UN peacekeepers from Quebec allegedly involved in sexual exploitation and abuse in Haiti, dating back to 2013. (UN Photo / Logan Abassi)
March 31, 2016: WATCH: The United Nations says its investigators have interviewed 108 alleged victims of sexual abuse by international peacekeepers in Central African Republic, the "vast majority" of them minors. (Associated Press TV)
March 25, 2016: MINUSCA announces that it has received new information about allegations of peacekeeper sexual abuse in the Central African Republic dating back to 2014 and 2015.
February 4, 2016: MINUSCA announces at least seven new victims of sexual abuse by peacekeepers from the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Congo in Bambari, Central African Republic. (UN Photo/Nektarios Markogiannis)
January 5, 2016: MINUSCA announces fresh allegations of peacekeeper sexual abuse of girls in the Central African Republic. (UN Photo / Albert Gonzalez Ferran)
