More Women in DR Congo Accuse Aid Workers in Ebola Sex Abuse Scandal newhumanitarian: DRC
Dozens more women have come forward to accuse workers for the World Health Organization and other aid groups of sexual abuse and exploitation during the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - testimonies that suggest the scale of the scandal is even larger than previously reported.and the Thomson Reuters Foundation first uncovered the scandal in 2020.
The New Humanitarian alerted WHO to the latest accounts in September. In February, the women said they had not yet been contacted by the WHO or by investigators from the independent commission. Of the 34 women who recently came forward, 27 said they were abused or exploited by men who said they worked for WHO; five accused staff from UNICEF, and one each accused workers from World Vision and the International Committee of the Red Cross .
The New Humanitarian asks all women who share their accounts of abuse if they would be willing for reporters to share their contact information with organisations implicated. Any new cases would also fall under the purview of OIOS, Gamhewage said, adding that more women had come forward with allegations since the independent commission issuedmentioning 83 victims in September 2021. She noted that WHO had worked to improve its reporting mechanisms since the scandal broke.
"My life became so bleak. This was my first time to be with a man like this, in this case, an old man. I felt awful," she told The New Humanitarian in September, adding that she ended up with a venereal disease from the abuse.
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