By Mary Margaret Olohan, The Stream, (The Daily Caller News), September 30, 2020
Mary Margaret Olohan is a reporter covering social issues for The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Numerous women have alleged that World Health Organization employees used sex as a “passport to employment” in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an investigation found.
The Thomson Reuters Foundation and the nonprofit Geneva-based New Humanitarian conducted a year long investigation published Tuesday in which the news organizations interviewed 51 women. Thirty of these women said that they were exploited by men who worked on the Ebola outbreak for the WHO beginning in 2018, the investigation found.
All 51 women said that when they applied for jobs, they were pressured to have sex with WHO employees, employees of other international aid organizations, and employees of the Congo’s Health Ministry, the investigation found. Some of the women said that when they refused to provide sex, their contracts were terminated. …