June 30, 2020: Unilever’s decision to rename one of its skin-lightening creams does not address the racism and colorism inherent in the product. UN Women must end its partnership with Unilever.
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June 23, 2020: The UN entity known as UN Women must sever its partnership with Unilever, which reaps hundreds of million of dollars in profits from racist skin-lightening products.
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June 1, 2020: The UN's highest-ranking official dedicated to addressing sexual exploitation and abuse committed by UN personnel—Jane Holl Lute, who serves at the Under-Secretary-General level—appears to be no longer actively engaged in her role. (UN Photo / Loey Felipe)
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May 15, 2020: It is not possible to hold a free and fair election without international monitors in the midst of rampant and worsening violence while an unchecked pandemic sickens many more Burundians than the government is willing to admit, write Paula Donovan and Stephen Lewis in a new statement. (UN Photo / Martine Perret)
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In a new statement, AIDS-Free World urges the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to provide more than reassurance to people living with and affected by HIV and TB during the COVID-19 crisis. UNAIDS must offer uncompromising leadership, correct information as it develops, tangible action, and clear communication.
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March 13, 2020: AIDS-Free World’s Code Blue Campaign comments on a troubling new UN report, which reveals an increase in the number of sexual exploitation and abuse allegations against UN personnel. We need the UN now more than ever. (UN Photo / Eskinder Debebe)
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March 5, 2020: In a new report, AIDS-Free World’s Code Blue Campaign lays out a narrative substantiating our view that troops from the Pierre Nkurunziza regime in Burundi do not belong in UN Peacekeeping. (Photo credit / Adrienne Surprenant)
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December 20, 2019: Unresolved paternity claims stemming from sexual exploitation and abuse committed by UN peacekeepers are an endemic problem. (UN Photo / Marie Frechon)
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December 17, 2019: The government of Equatorial Guinea has refused to serve legal papers on former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh, who has been living in exile in Equatorial Guinea since January 2017, AIDS-Free World announced. (UN Photo / Cia Pak)
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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November 15, 2019: AIDS-Free World’s Sarah Bosha delivered compelling testimony before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, highlighting the role of Jamaica’s anti-sodomy law in fueling the HIV epidemic. (UN Photo / Loey Felipe)
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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 26, 2019: In a new backgrounder, AIDS-Free World outlines the troubling case of Indira Jaising and Anand Grover, two human rights lawyers of international renown who are being targeted by the Indian government.
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July 16, 2019: On July 16, UNAIDS issued an annual Global AIDS Update that finally tells the truth about the state of the world’s HIV crisis: It’s not over. Not even close. (Photo: WikiCommons / Baumschlager Eberle)
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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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June 12, 2019: In newly published research in the Health and Human Rights Journal, AIDS-Free World’s Sarah Bosha and researchers from the Eck Institute and the University of the Gambia assess the impact of former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh’s fraudulent HIV cure. (UN Photo / Amanda Voisard)
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