{"id":835222,"date":"2021-10-01T12:59:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T16:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=835222"},"modified":"2021-10-01T12:59:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T16:59:17","slug":"nearly-two-dozen-world-health-organization-workers-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-two-dozen-world-health-organization-workers-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly Two Dozen World Health Organization Workers Accused Of Sexual Misconduct, Abuse"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fnearly-two-dozen-world-health-organization-workers-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-abuse%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=835222&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/WHO.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Nearly two dozen workers for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Congo have been accused of sexual misconduct, including conduct that encompasses rape, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.who.int\/media\/docs\/default-source\/ethics\/ic-final-report-28092021-en-version.pdf?sfvrsn=fef409a0_9&amp;download=true\">findings<\/a> from a panel.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The panel\u2019s report implicates roughly 80 aid workers as perpetrators of sexual misconduct, of which 21 were employed by the WHO. The abuse is supposed to have taken place from 2018-2020 during a mission to Congo. The report was put out Tuesday by the WHO after being pressured into investigating.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is the biggest finding of sexual abuse perpetrated during a single U.N. initiative in one area or one country during the time-bound period of a U.N. response effort,\u201d Paula Donovan said. Donovan is the co-director of the Code Blue, an organization dedicated to cracking down on sexual abuse by UN personal.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Associated Press <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-health-united-nations-world-health-organization-ebola-virus-36ceb41d266190d149a74e400332e1ed\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> that Malick Coulibaly, one of the panel\u2019s investigators, noted that they documented at least nine alleged rapes by the aid workers, several of which resulted in women being forced to have abortions by their rapists. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The report finds that there were a total of 29 pregnancies among Congolese women from aid workers. While most of the pregnancies resulted in births, several ended in miscarriages and a few in forced abortions via injection or other drugs. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One young girl, identified as \u201cJolianne,\u201d was raped by a UN worker when she was just 13 years old. The worker had apparently told the young girl that he would give her a ride back to her home after she had been selling phone cards on the roadside.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cInstead, he took her to a hotel where she says she was raped by this person,\u201d the report notes. Julianne, who became pregnant through the rape, was the youngest of the victims.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Many victims told investigators that they would get jobs if they had sex with the aid worker. However, the investigators wrote that, \u201cThe vast majority of the alleged victims the review team met did not get the jobs they were promised despite having consented to having sex.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 24\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\" readability=\"9.5\">\n<div class=\"column\" readability=\"14\">\n<p>One victim interviewed by the panel claimed, \u201cTo get ahead in the job, you had to have sex [\u2026] Everyone had sex in exchange for something. It was very common. I was even offered sex if I wanted to get a basin of water to wash myself in the base camp where we were staying during the retaliation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The panel indicate that 12 of the 75 individuals who were interviewed for testimony were men.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Another one of the investigators, A\u00efchatou Mindaoudou, said that individuals in leadership at WHO \u201cwere aware of what was going on and did not act.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that he was sorry to the abuse victims calling the report \u201charrowing reading.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhat happened to you should never happen to anyone. It is inexcusable. It is my top priority to ensure that the perpetrators are not excused but are held to account,\u201d Ghebreyesus said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He added that \u201cwholesale reform of our structures and culture\u201d would be forthcoming in light of the panel\u2019s findings.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is not yet known if the accused perpetrators, from both Congo and abroad, of the abuse will face prosecution for their actions, which took place during an Ebola crisis in the Congo. For the time being, several WHO perpetrators have been fired and others banned from working for the international organization again.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe encourage the WHO to continue and show the community that its personnel who abused women and their daughters in our community have been genuinely, severely punished,\u201d Esperence Kazi <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/who-heartbroken-by-congo-sex-abuse-probe-findings-2021-09-28\/\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>, a leader of the group \u2018One Girl One Leader\u2019 in Beni.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The problems found unveiled by the panel are not limited to Congo, but seem to be more widespread throughout UN peacekeeping missions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Code Blue\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codebluecampaign.com\/the-problem\"><span>website<\/span><\/a><span> says that there is a widespread problem of sexual misconduct by UN forces and that this is compounded by poor response from the UN bureaucracy.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>Member States have not yet come to the realization that the day of reckoning is approaching,\u201d the website says,&nbsp; \u201cIf they do not take the initiative to fully recognize, understand, and solve a problem that has become an attention-getting Achilles heel, the UN\u2019s sexual abuse crisis is likely to reach a pinnacle soon that could hobble the United Nations\u2019 ability and authority to perform any of its functions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly two dozen workers for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Congo have been accused of sexual misconduct, including conduct that encompasses rape, according to findings from a panel.\u00a0The panel\u2019s &#8230;<\/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-835222","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\/835222","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=835222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835222\/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=835222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}