WHO ‘should pay reparations to victims of sexual abuse by staff’

Inquiry finds 21 men accused of sex abuse, including rape, worked for World Health Organization during Democratic Republic of the Congo's 2018 Ebola crisis

Survivors of sexual abuse by World Health Organization aid workers during the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ebola outbreak in 2018 should receive substantive" reparations, the co-chair of an independent inquiry into the scandal has said.

Julienne Lusenge, a prominent Congolese human rights activist, said it was essential" that the UN's global health body drew up a workable plan for reparations to respond to the real needs" of women and girls who became victims of abuse.