Michel Sidibe

With Scandals Rife Across the UN, Are Managers at Fault?

• April 24, 2019

A sea of new or lingering allegations of harassment and corruption in numerous agencies and programs in the United Nations system appears to be washing over a sprawling organization battered by scandal. Poor or careless management and oversight, from top to bottom, is partly to blame, but so is persistent, overt politicization of high-level …

Gender Violence, SDGs, Special Report, UN Agencies

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Calling the UN to Account to Stop the HIV/AIDS Scourge

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 more than half of the people living with HIV/AIDS — approximately 16.1 million women out …

Caribbean, Health and Population, Women

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Women, Girls and Their Sexuality in the Next MDGs

Denis Fitzgerald

• March 13, 2014

The future global development agenda must include a standalone goal for gender equality, and United Nations member states, who will have the final say on the successor to the Millennium Development Goals, should not use culture or ideology as an excuse for failing to include sexual and reproductive rights of women and girls among …

Development, Women

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Nigeria Attracts Latest Criticism for Anti-Gay Laws

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 a sweeping law broadening the criminalization of homosexuality. Nigeria has the second-largest number of people …