WHO will allocate US $ 7.6 million to promote plan against sexual abuse of its humanitarian workers

This Friday, under pressure from its main contributors, the World Health Organization (WHO) partially presented his plan of “zero tolerance” with the sexual assaults, following the revelation that some of its workers committed abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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“WHO will allocate an initial figure of $ 7.6 million (€ 6.5 million) to immediately strengthen its capacity to prevent, detect and respond to sexual exploitation and assault in ten countries with a higher risk profile.”, Explained the UN agency to AFP.

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To do this, WHO will recruit experts in the field and send them to Afghanistan, Venezuela, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.

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An independent commission of inquiry published a devastating report for the organization on September 28.

That document denounced that 21 WHO workers at the time of the events committed sexual assaults against dozens of people in the DRC during the Ebola epidemic between 2018 and 2020.

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Following the revelation of these abuses, several dozen countries, including the United States and some from the European Union, demanded that the WHO “total commitment”Against these attacks, in a joint statement.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus unveiled the action plan to member countries on Thursday.

The presentation of the final document will take place “in the coming days”, Specified a source from the WHO to AFP.

The report that revealed the abuses denounced “structural failures” and “individual negligence”.

The plan “presents immediate, medium and long-term actions to resolve the failures identified in the report”, Indicated the WHO.

The document emphasizes in several aspects for “improve victim prevention” and “increase individual and management responsibilities”.

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The document also aims to “reform the culture of the WHO, its structures and its systems to create an internal culture in which sexual exploitation and assault cannot occur, in which there is no impunity and there is zero tolerance for inaction.”

According to the first estimates, the organization will have to invest 15 million annually to implement the plan.

Following the publication of the controversial report, the WHO terminated the contracts of four of its 21 workers directly involved. He also suspended those of two high positions.

Faced with the new Ebola epidemic currently affecting eastern DRC, “We have sent an expert in the prevention of sexual assaults among the team of 15 people deployed in Beni“Said the UN agency on Friday.

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