World Health Organization Says Its Staff Perpetrated "Harrowing" Sexual Abuse In Congo
A 43-year-old woman arrived at an interview for a job with the World Health Organization to raise community awareness about Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It was late 2018. The outbreak there was the largest since the 2014 Ebola crisis in West Africa.
She says the interviewer told her she could only get the job in exchange for sex. When she refused, she says, the man raped her.
That's one of the "harrowing" stories in a newly released report on what's being called a sex-for-jobs scandal as hundreds of aid workers rushed into remote villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
They left behind broken lives, unwanted pregnancies and broken promises, according to a . "Harrowing" was the word used by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to describe the accounts. He called it a "dark day" for the
