Most aid agencies contacted by The New Humanitarian and the Thomson Reuters Foundation said they had received few or no claims of sexual abuse or exploitation against their workers in the DRC.
The investigation has prompted an internal inquiry at World Vision, which said the reports were “shocking” because all staff were trained on preventing sexual abuse and it was working hard to address “entrenched cultural and power inequalities”. Spokespeople for the International Organisation for Migration, MSF, Unicef and the DRC’s health ministry said in mid-September they had no knowledge of the accusations, and several said they would need more information to take action.
“Why would you even ask if I reported it?” asked one woman who said she was offered money for sex by a man who said he worked for the WHO and another who said he worked for Unicef.‘Passport to employment’ Women said men routinely refused to wear condoms — at a time when physical contact was being discouraged to halt the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Many knew the men’s names.
But when The New Humanitarian and the Thomson Reuters Foundation surveyed 34 of the main international organisations and a handful of local NGOs involved in the Ebola operation, most of the 24 that provided data indicated that they had received no complaints during the two-year outbreak. More than 15 000 people were involved in the 2018 to 2020 operation that cost more than $700-million and was marred by hundreds of attacks by armed groups on treatment centres, medical staff and patients, as well as militia violence.
One 32-year-old Ebola survivor said she was phoned by a man who invited her to come for a counselling session at a hotel. Ebola patients’ telephone numbers were routinely taken for follow-up care after they were discharged. One woman said: “In this response, they hired you with their eyeballs. They’d look you up and down before they’d make an offer.”
I simply doubt thow madness..I have been working for non governmental organizations in different countries z but sorry to say, these women think men working in these INGOs are ATMs...Sorry to say but they offer themselves to these men ,no one forces them to
Women are becoming petty!!
Disheartening Prof. 😢😡... But nothing new
Abuse of women &girls by UN officials in humanitarian settings is not on. This is unacceptable UN antonioguterres can do better on these abuses. There must be strong measures put in place to ensure accountability UN_Women SonkeTogether MenEngageAfrica StopVAW
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