March 4, 2016: Media highlights of the UN's release of the 2015 Secretary-General's Special Measures report on sexual exploitation and abuse. (UN Photo / Sylvain Liechti)
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.
March 4, 2016: Media highlights of the UN's release of the 2015 Secretary-General's Special Measures report on sexual exploitation and abuse. (UN Photo / Sylvain Liechti)
March 4, 2016: WATCH: Atul Khare, Under-Secretary-General for Field Support, holds a press conference on the release of the Secretary-General's Special Measures Report on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. (UN Photo / Eskinder Debebe)
February 17, 2016: The New York Times' Editorial Board: "The organization is failing some of the world’s most vulnerable children by not cracking down on sexually abusive peacekeeping troops." (UN Photo / Saw Lwin)
February 7, 2016: In a blog post for Oxford University Press, Rosa Freedman discusses why it's so difficult to prosecute UN peacekeepers for their crimes. (UN Photo / Andrea Brizzi)
February 5, 2016: A summary of media highlights following the UN's announcement of new allegations of sexual violence by peacekeepers from the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo serving with MINUSCA in the Central African Republic. (UN Photo / Olivia Grey Pritchard)
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 29, 2016: An initial summary of media highlights following the UN's announcement of new allegations of peacekeeper sexual violence in the Central African Republic, involving both UN and non-UN troops. (UN Photo / Marco Dormino)
January 29, 2016: WATCH: Anthony Banbury, the Assistant Secretary-General for Field Support, on allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse cases in the Central African Republic. (UN Photo / Mark Garten)
January 22, 2016: Anders Kompass, senior OHCHR official, speaks with Thomson Reuters Foundation about the need to "break an unspoken culture of silence" on sexual exploitation and abuse within the UN. (UN Photo / Martine Perret)
January 5, 2016: MINUSCA announces fresh allegations of peacekeeper sexual abuse of girls in the Central African Republic. (UN Photo / Albert Gonzalez Ferran)
Media highlights on the independent CAR Panel’s scathing report on the UN’s failure to respond to sexual abuse of children by peacekeepers. (UN Photo / Mark Garten)
December 17, 2015: The External Independent Review panel ('CAR Panel') led by Justice Marie Deschamps released its final report on the UN's response to peacekeeper sex abuse in the Central African Republic. (UN Photo / Mark Garten)
December 17, 2015: An exclusive by Colum Lynch in Foreign Policy reports that Anders Kompass, senior UN Human Rights Official, is cleared by the independent CAR Panel for his role in passing report on peacekeeper child sex abuse to the French government (UN Photo/Violaine Martin)
December 9, 2015: Speaking before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday, US Ambassador to the United Nations called for greater transparency and accountability for sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeepers.
In a special issue of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Paula Donovan shares analysis on impunity for sexual violence and the specific problem of sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeeping personnel in a June 2015 interview with Nicolas Lemay-Hébert. (Photo: davidgoldmanphoto.com)
December 2, 2015: Read AIDS-Free World's submission to the UK's House of Lords, submitted on November 13, 2015.
US Ambassador Power delivered powerful remarks on ending impunity for sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeeping personnel, as part of a speech on effective peacekeeping, in India on November 20, 2015. (UN Photo / Mark Garten)
Watch Paula Donovan's testimony by video conference before the UK House of Lords Select Committee on Sexual Violence in Conflict on peacekeeper sexual exploitation and abuse (November 3, 2015).
On October 1st, France2 TV's weekly newsmagazine, Envoyé Spécial aired an investigative report on sexual abuse by French peacekeepers in the Central African Republic. Journalist Pierre Monégier travelled to CAR to learn more and went to Cambodia to speak with the UN human rights officer who took the initial reports of abuse.
Sept.18, 2015: The Guardian reports on AIDS-Free World's efforts to find out what happened in numerous cases of peacekeeper sexual exploitation and abuse as part of the Code Blue Campaign. The inquiry found that two thirds of the internal UN probes into alleged peacekeepers rapes were not passed on to national courts.