WHO finds its Ebola staff abused women and girls: ‘Humbled and heartbroken’:

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‘Humbled and heartbroken’: WHO finds its Ebola staff abused women and girls

Yet, we've been here before and safeguarding violations are allowed to continue.

The World Health Organization has described itself as “heartbroken” after an independent inquiry it commissioned said scores of women and girls were sexually abused by aid workers during the devastating 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The findings were described as “harrowing reading” by the WHO’s director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, while its regional director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, said she was “humbled, horrified and heartbroken”.

The commission, which examined about 80 cases of women and girls aged 13 to 43, identified 21 employees working for the UN global health body among perpetrators of serious abuses, including a number of rape allegations. According to the report, the abuse led to 29 pregnancies, with some of the perpetrators insisting the women have abortions. The report added that the WHO perpetrators included local and international staff.

www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/sep/28/humbled-and-heartbroken-who-finds-its-ebola-staff-abused-women-and-girls

Oh sorry I see what you mean.

WHO along with the vast majority of orgs and media are highly inconsistent.

They still happily use women girls to mean sex sometimes, at other times menstruators etc.

WHO thread on it

More info than guardian by far.

mobile.twitter.com/uklabour

Wrong one!

It won't cut n paste...

Twitter WHO will do it. Top tweets.

I'm appalled by this and can hardly bear to read the article.

The injustice and immorality of men once again abusing vulnerable women and girls is utterly sickening.

Nothing changes does it? Ever.

The perpetrators were local and international responders which surely speaks to a seam of abuse running throughout the entire organisation. Heads should roll at the top. I'm sure they won't.
It's all closed doors and cover ups.

For fucks sake! This is heartbreaking. I am so fucking sick of this and so fucking angry and I feel so fucking useless.
What do we do? What the hell do we do to stop these fucking shitty rapey men from abusing their power? How depraved do you have to be to do this?

It is so sickening.

While the WHO pisses about with language ffs.

Someone suggested ages ago that people who work on the ground should be women.

I worked briefly for a small development organisation that managed only ever to have women, gay guys or people from the country (or a neighbouring country in places where the lines on the map where drawn by colonisers) on the ground. It wasn’t an official policy but it did always seem to shake out like that.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44523086.amp

Whatever happened with the MSF allegations? Did that all just get swept under the carpet?
Oxfam, MSF, now WHO. Fucking rapist magnets. When the male international staff go to get their tropical disease vaccines before flying off to the crisis zone, they should get castrated at the same time before they're allowed on the plane. Sounds like it's the only way to keep women and girls safe if the organisation can't be bothered to stop their staff from raping them.

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Thank you for sharing that- a positive thing to read

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www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44523086.amp

Whatever happened with the MSF allegations? Did that all just get swept under the carpet?
Oxfam, MSF, now WHO. Fucking rapist magnets. When the male international staff go to get their tropical disease vaccines before flying off to the crisis zone, they should get castrated at the same time before they're allowed on the plane. Sounds like it's the only way to keep women and girls safe if the organisation can't be bothered to stop their staff from raping them.

MSF developed new "Behavioural Commitments" as a result of the scandal. I have no idea if they also took any disciplinary action, if the commitment is at all effects, or if they bother to monitor it.

Twitter thread from WHO

twitter.com/WHO/status/1442835092779331587?s=20

WHO's DG

twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1442947950687100929?s=20

I think it was both international and local men doing this in this case "The report added that the WHO perpetrators included local and international staff"

What happens when "difficult women" speak up: www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/courage-of-difficult-women/

Rowantrees has a post about Oxfam who treated whistleblowers very poorly:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3605120-Munroe-Childline-s-first-LGBT-campaigner?msgid=87782067

Can anyone who's logged in to Twitter right now unroll that WHO thread? (You need to follow an unroll account and @ them.)

Not surprising.
Many of these NGO and charities do more harm than good in the communities and to people (especially women and girls) they're supposed to be helping. Complaints are often made by some of them and these issues are often talked about among the lower-level workers but they're conveniently not listened to. Their voices are rarely heard.

Horrifying. So much has come out about this in recent years it seems systemic and endemic within these orgs. No real attempts seem to have been made to address it across the whole third sector.

This happened with the UN in the 90s in Bosnia too. The (female) whistleblower was sacked and took it to a tribunal I think. it probably happens in most places and we just happen to hear about some of it.

@ARoombaOfOnesOwn

This happened with the UN in the 90s in Bosnia too. The (female) whistleblower was sacked and took it to a tribunal I think. it probably happens in most places and we just happen to hear about some of it.

And the widespread use of NDAs means that we don't even vaguely know what we don't know.

^ good point about the NDAs.

The film the Whistleblower is a must watch imo. Its so much worse than you imagine it will be, and should come with a trigger warning for extreme violence.