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 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 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 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 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.
Read MoreJune 30, 2020: Unilever’s decision to rename one of its skin-lightening creams does not address the racism and colorism inherent in the product. UN Women must end its partnership with Unilever.
Read MoreJune 23, 2020: The UN entity known as UN Women must sever its partnership with Unilever, which reaps hundreds of million of dollars in profits from racist skin-lightening products.
Read MoreJune 1, 2020: The UN's highest-ranking official dedicated to addressing sexual exploitation and abuse committed by UN personnel—Jane Holl Lute, who serves at the Under-Secretary-General level—appears to be no longer actively engaged in her role. (UN Photo / Loey Felipe)
Read MoreMay 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)
Read MoreMarch 5, 2020: In a new report, AIDS-Free World’s 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)
Read MoreDecember 20, 2019: Unresolved paternity claims stemming from sexual exploitation and abuse committed by UN peacekeepers are an endemic problem. (UN Photo / Marie Frechon)
Read MoreDecember 17, 2019: The government of Equatorial Guinea has refused to serve legal papers on former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh, who has been living in exile in Equatorial Guinea since January 2017, AIDS-Free World announced. (UN Photo / Cia Pak)
