More victims complain of sexual abuse by aid workers, a quarter of them employed by the WHO, during the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 10th Ebola epidemic
More women have reported sexual exploitation and abuse by aid workers during an Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo since a report into the scandal was issued last month, a senior World Health Organization official told Reuters.sexual coercion and abuse during the country’s 10th Ebola epidemicDr.
“The more work we do, the more cases that will come to light. So already we are hearing from partners, they are also receiving more complaints,” Gamhewage said in an interview. The independent probe was prompted by an investigation last year by the Thomson Reuters Foundation and The New Humanitarian in which more than 50 women accused aid workers from the WHO and other charities of demanding sex in exchange for jobs between 2018 and 2020.
The WHO has also said it would investigate potential negligence by managers that may amount to misconduct. These included 62 case files “not identified currently with WHO and we have to make sure that perpetrators wherever they are disciplined”, she said.
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