Press releases and statements about AIDS-Free World's Code Blue campaign. Code Blue aims to end impunity for sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeeping personnel.
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March 18, 2022: In the latest Special Measures Report, the Secretary-General declares his intention to improve the UN's response to its sexual abuse crisis by appointing a dedicated, full-time Special Coordinator. The change is overdue. But it isn't enough. Our statement calls for radical reform. (UN Photo / Manuel Elías)
March 19, 2021: Today’s UN press conference announcing the release of the Secretary-General’s annual Special Measures Report steered clear of hard facts in favor of frivolous distractions.
May 15, 2020: It is not possible to hold a free and fair election without international monitors in the midst of rampant and worsening violence while an unchecked pandemic sickens many more Burundians than the government is willing to admit, write Paula Donovan and Stephen Lewis in a new statement. (UN Photo / Martine Perret)
5 mars 2020 : Dans un nouveau rapport, la Code Blue Campaign présente un récit étayant notre point de vue selon lequel les troupes du régime de Pierre Nkurunziza au Burundi n'ont pas leur place dans les opérations de maintien de la paix de l'ONU. (Crédit photo / Adrienne Surprenant)
March 5, 2020: In a new report, the Code Blue Campaign lays out a narrative substantiating our view that troops from the Pierre Nkurunziza regime in Burundi do not belong in UN Peacekeeping. (Photo credit / Adrienne Surprenant)
December 13, 2019: Martina Brostrom was fired today from UNAIDS in what she described as a blatant act of retaliation. (Photo credit: Mark Henley)
September 9, 2019: The newly released UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi report shows that Burundi government forces continue to commit sexual violence against women and girls with a shocking degree of impunity. The UN should end it complicity with an odious regime and cease deploying Burundian soldiers as UN peacekeepers. (UN Photo / Stuart Price)
August 1, 2019: In a new statement, the Code Blue Campaign criticizes the UN for its failure to address the crisis at UNRWA and calls on Member States to intervene by creating an independent oversight panel. (UN Photo / Shareef Sarhan)
May 3, 2019: Paula Donovan questions why António Guterres is paying Burundi for the use of its soldiers as UN peacekeepers, providing crucial sustenance to an autocratic regime under investigation by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. (UN Photo / Mark Garten)
March 19, 2019: The UN pays more than $13 million a year to Burundi for 767 peacekeepers, giving a government under investigation for crimes against humanity vital support for its campaign of mass rape and murder. (UN Photo / Martine Perret)
March 18, 2019: The Code Blue Campaign delivers a stinging denunciation of the UN Secretary-General's new Special Measures Report on sexual exploitation and abuse committed by UN personnel. (UN Photo / Eskinder Debebe)
February 25, 2019: The Code Blue Campaign responds to the UN Secretary-General’s announcement of a new Civil Society Advisory Board. (UN Photo / Jean-Marc Ferré)
January 16, 2019: The Code Blue Campaign delivers its initial reaction to the results of the UN’s sexual harassment survey. (UN Photo)
December 7, 2018: The Code Blue Campaign blasts the UN Secretary-General for failing to take decisive action in response to the recommendations of the Independent Expert Panel, which called for a change in leadership at UNAIDS. (UN Photo / Eskinder Debebe)
December 3, 2018: AIDS-Free World has learned that the leadership of UNAIDS is actively working to suppress a report produced by an Independent Expert Panel (IEP) appointed to look into sexual harassment, bullying, and abuse of power at the UN agency. (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
August 16, 2018: After Prashanti Tiwari filed a criminal complaint against UNFPA’s Representative in India and Bhutan, Diego Palacios, the UN asserted immunity, falsely claiming that the accused is immune from legal process. A report detailing the findings of the internal UN investigation provides incontrovertible evidence that UNFPA is in the throes of a concerted effort to block criminal justice. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
July 31, 2018: Read the Code Blue Campaign’s statement on the UK Parliament’s International Development Committee’s new report, Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in the Aid Sector. (UN Photo/Staton Winter)
June 5, 2018: Paula Donovan delivers an urgent message to the UK Parliament’s Inquiry on sexual exploitation and abuse. (Photo: ©AIDS-Free World)
May 4, 2018: This week the UN announced that it would “reopen” the case against Loures, this time with the UN’s New York-based Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) as investigators and the Director-General of the World Health Organization as the judge. In a new statement, Code Blue cries foul. We believe WHO’s Internal Oversight Service must become the subject of a new investigation, UNAIDS management must also be investigated, and, most important, Member States must monitor the investigations in real-time. (UN Photo / Manuel Elias)
April 27, 2018: Code Blue’s Paula Donovan and Stephen Lewis react to UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ decision to open a new OIOS investigation into sexual assault and sexual harassment claims against UNAIDS Assistant-Secretary-General Luiz Loures. (UN Photo / JC McIlwaine)
