April 1, 2022: As Secretary-General António Guterres prepares to replace Jane Holl Lute, AIDS-Free World’s Code Blue Campaign calls for the next Special Coordinator on improving the UN response to sexual exploitation and abuse to scrutinize the Organization’s current response and seek out new perspectives before calling for necessary reform.
Read MoreMarch 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. Code Blue calls for radical reform. (UN Photo / Manuel Elías)
Read MoreDecember 13, 2021: The recommendations of The Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) provide the government of The Gambia with the opportunity to bring a measure of justice to the survivors of Jammeh’s “AIDS cure.” AIDS-Free World hopes that President Barrow’s verbal commitments translate into genuine action on behalf of all Jammeh’s victims.
Read MoreSeptember 28, 2021: The World Health Organization's "Independent" Commission on sexual abuse allegations in DRC released its report today. Paula Donovan, Co-Director of AIDS-Free World and its Code Blue Campaign, says there is nothing independent about the way WHO handled the allegations lodged against its personnel.
Read MoreThe IAS Conference on HIV Science, which concludes tomorrow, bills itself as "the largest open scientific conference on HIV and AIDS." But IAS requires sizable fees from anyone who wishes to view its livestream. Why have an AIDS conference if its live sessions are the exclusive province of a select few?
Read MoreJuly 19, 2021: Member States need to enact far-reaching changes to ensure that the horrors of MINUSTAH—the UN’s peacekeeping mission from 2004 to 2017—will never be repeated, in any peacekeeping mission. (UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe)
Read MoreJune 10, 2021: A new UN report claims that child labour is more prevalent among boys than girls. This claim is false. The UN doesn’t count girls who work day and night as “wives” in illegal child marriages as child labourers. AIDS-Free World responds. (UN Photo)
Read MoreMay 27, 2021: As testimony concludes before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC), which has exposed human rights violations committed by former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh, we pay tribute to the brave survivors of Jammeh’s fake ‘AIDS’ cure.
Read MoreMarch 19, 2021: AIDS-Free World’s Code Blue Campaign analyzes the UN press conference announcing the release of the Secretary-General’s annual Special Measures Report, which steered clear of hard facts in favor of frivolous distractions.
Read MoreFebruary 17, 2021: In a joint statement, AIDS-Free World and the HIV Legal Network announce the public release of a long-delayed report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The report is an historic denunciation of Jamaica's colonial-era homophobic laws. (Photo: Chris Ford)
Read MoreFebruary 12, 2021: The United Kingdom has vowed to put the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse and harassment by aid sector and UN personnel "at the centre of everything we do." But a child rape case from the Democratic Republic of the Congo—involving an alleged perpetrator of British nationality—puts the lie to that claim. (UN Photo)
Read MoreFebruary 1, 2021: António Guterres has announced his availability for a second term as UN Secretary-General. In a new statement, AIDS-Free World’s Code Blue Campaign call upon him to step aside and ask Member States to appoint a woman in his place. (UN Photo / Manuel Elías)
Read MoreDecember 1, 2020: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has issued a scathing report in support of an AIDS-Free World petition arguing that the discriminatory sections of the Offences Against the Person Act violate the rights of LGBTI Jamaicans.
Read MoreSeptember 30, 2020: The UN's dysfunctional system for handling allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse against its own personnel ensures that the latest scandal in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will not be the last. (UN Photo / Sylvain Liechti)
Read MoreSeptember 17, 2020: The UN inquiry on Burundi must not end until President Ndayishimiye orders the investigation and prosecution, if necessary, of Burundian soldiers serving in UN Peacekeeping who have been accused of sexual crimes.
Read MoreAugust 11, 2020: In an opinion piece published in Devex, Code Blue legal and policy advisor Sharanya Kanikkannan highlights the failures of the UN’s internal justice system and argues for transparent and accessible accountability mechanisms. (UN Photo / Manuel Elias)
Read MoreJuly 29, 2020: A brief overview of AIDS-Free World's efforts to convince UN Women to end its partnership with Unilever, whose marketing of skin-lightening cream sends an anti-feminist and racist message.
Read MoreJuly 20, 2020: In our second Open Letter to the Secretary-General, we redouble our effort to determine the work status of Ms. Lute, the senior UN official charged with overseeing the effort to end sexual exploitation and abuse by UN personnel. (UN Photo / Mark Garten)
Read MoreJuly 16, 2020: The UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi urged the international community this week to "remain vigilant" on the situation in Burundi. The Code Blue Campaign agrees, and calls on the UN to ensure that Burundian peacekeepers are no longer free to commit sexual exploitation and abuse with impunity. (Photo: presidence.gov.bi)
Read MoreJuly 15, 2020: In the Gambian capital of Banjul, survivors of former dictator Yahya Jammeh's fraudulent and destruction of "AIDS cure" appeared before the country's Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, braving the stigma and discrimination that people living with HIV in The Gambia still endure.
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