Our Focus
Diplomacy
Working with governments, NGOs and UN agencies to implement best in class training, prevention, detection and prosecution of sex abusers working with aid organisations.
Awareness
Provide data and statistics to the general community, to raise awareness of the scale of the problem. Only when the general population is aware of the scale of the problem, will we get real change.
LEGAL ACTION
We support law firms that search out and find perpetrators of sex abuse. We work with them in civil and criminal actions to hold perpetrators to account and gain fair compensation for the victims of abuse.
Protecting Whistleblowers
We are lobbying governments and the UN for better Whistleblower protection and for the creation of a truly independent whistleblower protection organisation.
About
“First, sexual exploitation and abuse is not a problem of peacekeeping, it is a problem of the entire United Nations. Contrary to the information spreading that this is a question related to our peacekeeping operations, it is necessary to say that the majority of the cases of sexual exploitation and abuse are done by the civilian organizations of the United Nations, and not in peacekeeping operations.” 18 September 2017 Secretary-General's address to High-Level Meeting on the United Nations Response to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.
In 2016 Guterres recognised there were over 140 incidents of sexual abuse involving more than 300 victims in peace operations. We know therefore that most cases of United Nations Staff sexual abuse happen outside peace operations.
Guterres knows that many of the victims are children and that the above numbers are just the tip of the iceberg. This must stop.
Help us stop this abuse.
in 2016
in peace operations
the number of rapes reported to the UK
estimated per decade