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.
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)
December 5, 2016: At the noon briefing, Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, delivered an update on OIOS investigations into allegations of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic. (UN Photo/Evan Schneider)
November 5, 2016: The United Nations has issued a new glossary of terminology related to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. (UN Photo / Mark Garten)
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 20, 2016: Reporting from the opening of the 71st session of the UN General Assembly, Reuters quotes UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's statement of regret for the UN's role in the outbreak of cholera in Haiti, and sexual exploitation and abuse committed by UN peacekeepers, two matters that have, "tarnished the reputation of the United Nations and, far worse, traumatized many people we serve." (UN Photo / Manuel Elias)
September 20, 2016: In his final address to the UN General Assembly, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his regret for sexual abuse committed by UN peacekeepers and for the UN's role in the outbreak of cholera in Haiti. "Protectors must never become predators," he said of, "the despicable acts of sexual exploitation and abuse committed by UN peacekeepers." On Haiti, Ban expressed, "tremendous regret and sorrow at the profound suffering of Haitians affected by cholera," and called it the UN's, "moral responsibility," to support the Haitian people. (UN Photo / Cia Pak)
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)
June 23, 2016: The UN Staff Unions issue a statement on sexual exploitation and abuse by staff and peacekeepers. (UN Photo / Nektarios Markogiannis)
June 13, 2016: In an Op Ed for the Ottawa Citizen, University of Ottawa President and former Ambassador Allan Rock calls for fixing the UN's "culture of coverups" around peacekeeping. (UN Photo / JC McIlwaine)
June 7, 2016: Anders Kompass, the UN official who exposed the sexual abuse of children by French and African peacekeepers in the Central African Republic, is to resign in protest over what he sees as the organisation’s failure to hold its senior officials to account. (UN Photo / Violaine Martin)
May 13, 2016: Mr. Atul Khare, Under-Secretary-General for Field Support, and Ms. Jane Holl Lute, Special Coordinator on improving the United Nations response to sexual exploitation and abuse. (VIDEO)
April 5, 2016: The UN hosts an informal briefing for the General Assembly on the reports and allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse in the Central African Republic, led by Mr. Edmond Mulet, Chef de Cabinet of the Secretary-General, Mr. Atul Khare, Under-Secretary-General for Field Support, and Ms. Jane Holl Lute, Special Coordinator on improving the United Nations response to sexual exploitation and abuse.
April 1, 2016: A selection of media highlights following AIDS-Free World's revelation of shocking new allegations of child sexual abuse by UN and non-UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic. (UN Photo / Marco Dormino)
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.
March 18, 2016: A former senior United Nations official, Anthony Banbury, offers a scathing insider's critique of the world body's failings on his departure from the Department of Field Support, including on its failure to prevent peacekeeper sexual abuse. (UN Photo / Mark Garten)
On March 10, 2016, The Security Council debated peacekeeper sexual exploitation and abuse and received a briefing from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on his Special Measures report.
