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WHO Vows Action Against Perpetrators of Sexual Abuse in DR Congo

Lisa Schlein

   GENEVA - The World Health Organization has vowed to take action against
   anyone found guilty of sexually exploiting or abusing women in its
   Ebola aid operation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

   An investigation by The New Humanitarian and the Thomson Reuters
   Foundation reports more than 50 women were forced to trade sex for a
   job in the international Ebola aid operation in eastern DRC. The women
   have accused male aid workers from the World Health Organization and
   leading non-governmental organizations of abuse.

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