December 13, 2019: Martina Brostrom was fired today from UNAIDS in what she described as a blatant act of retaliation. (Photo credit: Mark Henley)
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October 9, 2019: Yet another United Nations entity—this time the World Food Programme (WFP)—is engulfed in a sexual abuse scandal. An independent survey found WFP to be a cesspool of harassment, discrimination against women and minorities, abuse of authority, and retaliation. AIDS-Free World’s Code Blue Campaign issues a call—once again—for independent oversight. (UN Photo / Logan Abassi)
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September 19, 2019: In letters released by AIDS-Free World, three survivors of former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh’s fake HIV/AIDS treatment programme ask authorities to revoke the licenses of two medical doctors who directed the programme. (UN Photo/Michelle Poiré)
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August 14, 2019: AIDS-Free World extends congratulations to Winnie Byanyima on her appointment as Executive Director of UNAIDS, and wishes her luck as she tackles considerable internal and external challenges at the UN entity. (UN Photo / Amanda Voisard)
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August 1, 2019: In a new statement, AIDS-Free World’s Code Blue Campaign criticizes the UN for its failure to address the crisis at UNRWA and calls on Member States to intervene by creating an independent oversight panel. (UN Photo / Shareef Sarhan)
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July 16, 2019: In a new letter to the UN Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations, AIDS-Free World and its Code Blue Campaign call on the UN to repatriate Burundian peacekeepers serving in the Central African Republic, ending a deployment that earns the brutal and autocratic regime millions of dollars and puts innocent civilians at risk. (UN Photo / Marco Dormino)
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March 8, 2019: After years of pressure from Inuit in Nunavut, the Prime Minister of Canada has finally apologized for the Federal Government's historical mistreatment of Inuit with tuberculosis.
(Photo: Inuit aboard CGS C.D. Howe, a ship that brought those diagnosed with tuberculosis to sanatoriums in southern Canada. Wilfrid Doucette / National Film Board of Canada / Library and Archives Canada).
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December 3, 2018: AIDS-Free World has learned that the leadership of UNAIDS is actively working to suppress a report produced by an Independent Expert Panel (IEP) appointed to look into sexual harassment, bullying, and abuse of power at the UN agency. (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
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July 31, 2018: Read the Code Blue Campaign’s statement on the UK Parliament’s International Development Committee’s new report, Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in the Aid Sector. (UN Photo / Staton Winter)
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May 4, 2018: This week the UN announced that it would “reopen” the case against Loures, this time with the UN’s New York-based Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) as investigators and the Director-General of the World Health Organization as the judge. In a new statement, Code Blue cries foul. We believe WHO’s Internal Oversight Service must become the subject of a new investigation, UNAIDS management must also be investigated, and, most important, Member States must monitor the investigations in real-time. (UN Photo / Manuel Elias)
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April 27, 2018: Code Blue’s Paula Donovan and Stephen Lewis react to UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ decision to open a new OIOS investigation into sexual assault and sexual harassment claims against UNAIDS Assistant-Secretary-General Luiz Loures. (UN Photo / JC McIlwaine)
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February 23, 2018: The Code Blue Campaign reacts to the news of Luiz Loures, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director at UNAIDS' impending departure from UNAIDS. Code Blue asks: 'Will this start the #MeTooUN movement?'. (Photo: Shutterstock.com)
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February 12, 2018: A follow-up open letter from Code Blue to UN Secretary-General António Guterres regarding allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment at UNAIDS. (Photo: Shutterstock.com)
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February 5, 2018: An open letter from AIDS-Free World's Code Blue Campaign to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. (UN Photo / Manuel Elias)
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December 5, 2017: (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire) — Three survivors of former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh’s fraudulent AIDS “cure” recounted their harrowing experiences and their determination to bring the dictator to justice during a press conference at the 19th International Conference of AIDS and STIs (ICASA) in Africa today. AIDS-Free World is working in concert with the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa, Gambian lawyers, and international partners to support the survivors and relatives of those who died at Jammeh's hands to pursue all possible legal avenues in their search for justice. (UN Photo / Mark Garten)
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October 27, 2017: Stephen Lewis delivers a statement upon returning from an October fact-finding trip to Mumbai and Delhi to assess tuberculosis in India. (Photo: © AIDS-Free World)
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October 20, 2017: In AIDS-Free World's Co-Director's speech to the Manitoba Social Science Teachers’ Association PD Day, Stephen Lewis calls on the Federal Government of Canada to publish the database on Inuit tuberculosis graves and provide an apology. (Photo: DavidGoldmanphotography.com)
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September 9, 2017: Stephen Lewis delivers a statement on the challenges addressing TB in northern Canada at a press conference in Iqaluit, Nunavut. (Photo: Georgia White)
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