AIDS-Free World
- Thalif Deen
- • August 5, 2019
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which has been undermined by a sharp cut in United States contributions, has been embroiled in a scandal that threatens to jeopardize its very future. A report from the agency’s Ethics Office…
- Categories: Middle East, Secretary-General, UN Agencies, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 14, 2018
Canada’s national health system, the envy of many people in other countries, including in the United States, is being more scrutinized from Canadians as reports reveal serious health-service gaps in the territory of Nunavut, a self-governing province populated by…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 14, 2018
As allegations of sexual abuse and harassment in the offices, field operations and peacekeeping missions continue to plague the United Nations, a case that has recently come to light reveals that in 2016 a woman who worked for Unaids…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Secretary-General
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 27, 2017
Stephen Lewis is an outspoken and often impassioned Canadian diplomat and former United Nations official with a lot of experience in tracking health crises in Africa. Now he has turned his attention to tuberculosis in India, where he made…
- Categories: Asia, Health and Population, India
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 23, 2016
When a tough independent report sharply criticized the United Nations in December for its bungled attempts to cover up, or at least ignore, the sexual abuse of children by peacekeeping troops in the Central African Republic in recent years,…
- Categories: Secretary-General, UN Diplomats, UN Special Envoys
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 14, 2015
Alleged rapes by French soldiers of boys in the Central African Republic from December 2013 to June 2014 were actually known by French officers in Bangui, the capital, as the sexual abuses occurred, says a new investigative report published…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 6, 2015
The uproar over accusations that French soldiers assigned to peacekeeping had sexually abused about a dozen boys in the Central African Republic from late 2013 through mid-2014 has shifted focus from the apparent behavior of the soldiers to the…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, UN Agencies
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 16, 2015
A report commissioned by the United Nations but never made public — which studied sexual exploitation and abuse committed by UN peacekeepers — has been released online by AIDS-Free World, a nonprofit organization founded by two former UN officials,…
- Categories: Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping, Women
- Danielle M. Bennett
- • April 23, 2014
It has been 33 years since the first reports of HIV/AIDS surfaced, and the pandemic, which has never been found to be racial, ethnic or gender specific among the population, is now affecting women the most. They account for…
- Categories: Caribbean, Health and Population, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 15, 2014
In an open letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Michel Sidibé, the executive director of UNAIDS, the organization called AIDS-Free World wants answers to questions about how the UN will deal with Nigeria after the adoption of…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights
- Alice Speri
- • September 25, 2013
With 827 days to go until the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals — the United Nations’ flagship agenda for global development — the buzzword at the General Assembly’s annual opening debate in New York this week was “acceleration.”…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Development, General Assembly, Health and Population
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