{"id":936343,"date":"2021-10-29T08:43:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T12:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=936343"},"modified":"2021-10-29T08:43:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T12:43:46","slug":"w-h-o-faces-another-round-of-sex-crime-allegations-during-ebola-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/w-h-o-faces-another-round-of-sex-crime-allegations-during-ebola-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"W.H.O. Faces Another Round of Sex Crime Allegations During Ebola Crisis"},"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%2Fw-h-o-faces-another-round-of-sex-crime-allegations-during-ebola-crisis%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=936343&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--><p class=\"subheading\">An unknown number of additional women have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/more-victims-complain-sexual-abuse-congo-scandal-who-expert-2021-10-27\/\">accused<\/a> World Health Organization (W.H.O.) staff of sexual abuse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R.C.) during the agency\u2019s response to the country\u2019s Ebola outbreak from August 2018 to June 2020, Reuters reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore people [have] come forward alleging abuses by aid workers at the time,\u201d Reuters paraphrased Dr. Gaya Gamhewage \u2014 the W.H.O.\u2019s acting director of prevention and response to sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment \u2014 as saying on October 27.<\/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>\u201cWe have heard through the inter-agency network that there are more complaints in Goma,\u201d she said. Goma is the capital of D.R.C.\u2019s North Kivu province.<\/p>\n<p>Gamhewage said she could not verify the exact number of new allegations as she \u201cdid not have access to the complaints due to confidentiality issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several local residents of the D.R.C.\u2019s North Kivu and Ituri regions have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2021\/09\/29\/w-h-o-ebola-response-staff-traded-sex-water-congo\/\">accused<\/a> at least 21 W.H.O. staff members of perpetrating acts of \u201csexual abuse and exploitation (S.E.A.)\u201d against them during a period spanning August 2018 to June 2020. The W.H.O. employees were stationed in eastern D.R.C. as part of the United Nations (U.N.) health agency\u2019s response to a regional Ebola outbreak.&nbsp;An independent commission contracted by the&nbsp;W.H.O. to investigate the allegations of S.E.A. published its initial findings on September 28.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The commission\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/sites\/reliefweb.int\/files\/resources\/ic-final-report-28092021en-version.pdf\">report<\/a>&nbsp;detailed \u201cmultiple allegations of rape and offers of employment in exchange for sex,\u201d W.H.O. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/22\/w-h-o-sexual-abuse-ebola-victims\/\">acknowledged<\/a> on October 21.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16553372\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"40\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/WHO-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16553372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/WHO-2.jpg\" alt=\"FILE - In this file photo dated Friday, Aug. 10, 2018, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director General, speaks to a health official at a newly established Ebola response center in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo. British, European and American diplomats and donors have voiced serious concerns about how the World Health Organization handled sex abuse allegations involving their own staff during an outbreak of Ebola in Congo. (AP Photo\/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro, FILE)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director General, speaks to a health official at a newly established Ebola response center in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo. British, European and American diplomats and donors have voiced serious concerns about how the World Health Organization handled sex abuse allegations involving their own staff during an outbreak of Ebola in Congo. (AP Photo\/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro, FILE)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Several accusers told the commission they became pregnant as a result of their rapes. Some further claimed their alleged rapists forced them to undergo abortions upon learning of their unplanned pregnancies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome alleged victims reported that no protection was used during sex,\u201d the commission wrote in a summary of its preliminary findings. \u201cIn some cases, the alleged perpetrator of sexual exploitation and abuse refused to use a condom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSix alleged victims claimed to have suffered miscarriages,\u201d according to the report. \u201cOther alleged victims told investigators that some of the men who abused them also coerced them into having an abortion when they became pregnant, if necessary, by giving them drugs or even injections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The September 28 report alluded to the possibility of further allegations surfacing in the near future. The commission said at the time its findings were \u201cnot an exhaustive list of alleged victims or perpetrators\u201d during the August 2018 to June 2020 time period. The investigative panel said it \u201ccontinues to receive reports of alleged sexual exploitation and abuse\u201d committed during the 22-month W.H.O. mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unknown number of additional women have accused World Health Organization (W.H.O.) staff of sexual abuse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R.C.) during the agency\u2019s response to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"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-936343","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\/936343","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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936343\/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=936343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}