{"id":1384752,"date":"2022-03-16T16:42:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T20:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1384752"},"modified":"2022-03-16T16:42:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T20:42:41","slug":"u-n-fighting-its-own-mounting-sexual-abuse-cases-with-mandatory-trainings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-n-fighting-its-own-mounting-sexual-abuse-cases-with-mandatory-trainings\/","title":{"rendered":"U.N. Fighting Its Own Mounting Sexual Abuse Cases with &#039;Mandatory Trainings&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-n-fighting-its-own-mounting-sexual-abuse-cases-with-mandatory-trainings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1384752&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres applauded his organization in a <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/sites\/reliefweb.int\/files\/resources\/N2225923.pdf\">report<\/a> made public on Tuesday for taking \u201crobust measures\u201d against its own deplorable record of sexual abuse, including \u201cmandatory training\u201d and \u201cannual surveys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. made public Guterres\u2019 annual report on its own rape, sexual exploitation, and other sexual abuse on Tuesday, which revealed a significant spike in the number of allegations of sexual abuse by U.N. staffers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the report, 445 allegations were received in 2021, representing an increase over the 387 received in 2020, and the highest number recorded since 2016, when 165 allegations were made,\u201d the U.N. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2022\/03\/1114012\">admitted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/press\/en\/2022\/db220315.doc.htm\">elaborated<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Of the 2021 total, 194\u202f reports were received system-wide, with 75 allegations related to peacekeeping, up from 66 in 2020, and above the average recorded over the last 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>There were 115 related to UN entities, up from 109 in 2020, and 4 involving formerly deployed non-UN security forces. In addition, 251 allegations involved non-UN related entities\u202f, such as non-governmental organizations, an uptick from 244 in 2020 and 174 in 2019.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Accusations of sexual assault and exploitation of victims of war or humanitarian disaster run rampant among U.N. agencies. Even its most prestigious institutions \u2013 such as UNICEF, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) \u2013 have faced accusations of widespread violations, including demanding that recipients of humanitarian aid engage in sex with U.N. workers in exchange for food, as well as sexual harassment and other abuses. Many of these incidents have allegedly occurred in Africa, including against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/05\/14\/sexual-abuse-scandal-rocks-world-health-organization\/\">victims<\/a> of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2018.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Guterres\u2019s report congratulated the United Nations for its bureaucratic responses to the alleged abuses even as the U.N. documented more such allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past five years, we have strengthened policies and protocols, introduced mandatory training, conducted risk assessments, institutionalized action plans and senior leaders\u2019 management letters,\u201d Guterres wrote, \u201cengaged staff through annual surveys,\u00a0publicly reported on the status of all allegations, proceeded with the separation or dismissal of staff with substantiated allegations and, where warranted, repatriated alleged perpetrators, including military contingents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guterres noted positively that the W.H.O. responded to the Congo scandal \u2013 in which its doctors were accused of demanding sex from local health workers in exchange for jobs and naming Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus when boasting of their power to pressure women into sex \u2013 by \u201cestablishing an independent commission in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must strengthen our leadership and organizational culture of gender equality and intolerance of sexual misconduct, create a global framework for cooperation with States on prevention and enhance our engagement with and support to communities, especially women\u2019s groups and grass-roots actors,\u201d the report concluded.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference announcing the release of the report, Guterres\u2019s spokesman Farhan Haq <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/press\/en\/2022\/db220315.doc.htm\">lamented<\/a>, \u201cno\u00a0one, including the Secretary-General, is pleased with the fact that we still have these cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Guterres began his bureaucratic approach to pervasive sexual abuse by the U.N. in 2017, establishing task forces, working groups, and special offices to address victim relations. Prior to that, U.N. officials had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2016\/05\/18\/un-pushes-get-tough-agenda-peacekeeper-sex-abuse\/\">documented<\/a> extensive evidence of sexual abuse by peacekeepers in Congo (independent of the later W.H.O. scandal) and the Central African Republic in 2016. An independent report also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2015\/12\/21\/investigation-un-peacekeepers-raped-children-young-nine-higher-ups-failed-act\/\">accused<\/a> U.N. peacekeepers of rampant sexual abuse of minors as young as nine in the latter country.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, accusations of \u201csex for food\u201d scandals in which United Nations affiliates used their access to humanitarian aid to demand sex from impoverished civilians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2018\/02\/27\/first-haiti-now-syria-fresh-sex-for-aid-allegations-rock-u-n-global-charities\/\">erupted<\/a> in Syria and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20150611-un-peacekeepers-trade-food-medicine-sex-abuse-report-haiti-liberia\">Haiti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Haq described the situation in the Central African Republic as a place where the United Nations could point to \u201cclear gains\u201d on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you know, in 2021, allegations relating to U.N. peacekeeping personnel in the Central African Republic led to the repatriation of a military contingent,\u201d Haq said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Andrew MacLeod, former chief of operations at the U.N.\u2019s Emergency Co-ordination Centre, estimated publicly that the U.N. was cataloging only one in ten sexual assault cases attributed to them, as these are the ones reported. If true, that tally would result in about 60,000 sexual abuse cases by the U.N. in ten years, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/un-staff-responsible-for-60-000-rapes-in-a-decade-c627rx239\"><em>Times<\/em><\/a> of London.<\/p>\n<p>That same year, the U.K.\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2018\/01\/23\/report-sexual-harassment-assault-flourish-u-n-offices-worldwide\/\">published<\/a> a report accusing U.N. staffers of rampant sexual harassment and abuses against other U.N. employees, including an alleged rape. Anonymous individuals who spoke to the\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em> reported widespread impunity for sexual abuse in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven when you summon your courage to complain and you exhaust all the internal mechanisms like I did, all the resources, all the processes, there\u2019s nothing for you,\u201d one woman said. \u201cThey mobilize friends, colleagues against you. I had threats, sent through friends, that \u2018She will never set foot in this office again.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1647531913832000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1fURPuau51WQ0Puvs28RQL\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1647531913832000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2sR-nYQdAVrYRMnC4H65qd\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres applauded his organization in a report made public on Tuesday for taking \u201crobust measures\u201d against its own deplorable record of sexual abuse, including \u201cmandatory training\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}