The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) is still wrestling with a sexual abuse scandal stemming from its 2018-2019 mission to fight Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
the W.H.O. sexual abuse crisis in September 2020. The original report included allegations from over 50 women, with corroborating testimony from witnesses who worked for other humanitarian agencies in the DRC.when senior W.H.O. officials were caught lying about their knowledge of the allegations, which included such abuses as doctors working for the Ebola mission telling local women they could only gain employment by offering sexual favors.
The New Humanitarian said it alerted W.H.O. to the new complaints at once, but as of February, none of the women had been contacted by the independent commission W.H.O. established to investigate the scandal. UNICEF told the New Humanitarian to “encourage” the five new complainants to make contact with investigators.
Last month, two of the experts appointed by W.H.O. to investigate allegations of sexual abuse in the DRC slammed the organization’s “restrictive” investigation as “an absurdity.”
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