21 employees of the World Health Organization (WHO) have been found guilty of sexual exploitation of women in the investigation. These workers, who went to help the African country battling the Ebola epidemic, made women and minor girls victims of their lust there.
Congo: 21 employees of the World Health Organization (WHO) made women and minor girls victims of lust in Congo. An independent investigation has revealed that these incidents were carried out in the African country from 2018 to 2020. WHO employees went to the Congo to fight the Ebola epidemic when they sexually assaulted many women and girls.
According to the report of ‘New York Times’, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed grief over the incident after the independent committee investigation confirmed the allegations against the employees. Tedros said that bringing punishment to the perpetrators is top of his priority. The investigation team also found that there was sexual violence against the women admitted to the hospital.
About 83 people were detected who sexually abused women during the Ebola epidemic and 21 of them were WHO employees. These employees, who went to help the affected, used to make women a victim of their lust after adding intoxicants to their drinks. While some women say that they were sexually exploited in the name of job promises.
Victim women were also told that the accused did not use contraception during the sexual assault and later used it to pressurize for abortion. Some of the victim women told that even a doctor had raped them by promising them a job. The investigation into these incidents started when about 50 women made serious allegations against the people who helped them. Significantly, during the Ebola epidemic, about two thousand people died in Congo.