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Around one hundred women from the Democratic Republic of Congo have been compensated by the World Health Organization with 250 dollars each for the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of the organisation’s employees between 2018 and 2020. This was revealed by the Associated Press news agency (here), which had access to internal reports of the organization.
In September 2021, an independent commission of inquiry (here) concluded that between 2018 and 2020, when the WHO was fighting the Ebola epidemic that hit the Democratic Republic of Congo, dozens of organization employees committed sexual abuse to the detriment of hundreds of local women.
The figure of $250, however, seems incredibly paltry. The sum is enough to cover daily living expenses in Congo for just four months. Furthermore, as highlighted by the Associated Press, the total compensation ordered by the WHO (around 26 thousand dollars) corresponds to only 1 percent of the 2 million dollar fund established by the same organization to provide assistance to victims of abuse sexual assaults, particularly those that occurred in Congo.
Many Congolese women who have suffered sexual abuse have still received nothing (Nov 2023). In a confidential document last month, the WHO highlighted that around a third of known victims were “impossible to trace”. Nearly a dozen women instead decided to refuse the offer.
The payments to women didn’t come freely. To receive the cash, they were required to complete training courses intended to help them start “income-generating activities.”
Let’s now have a closer look at the balance sheet of the World Health Organization (link here):
To pay its huge expenses, the WHO is substantially paid for by private individuals. Among them, the main contributors are the Bill Gates foundation, pharmaceutical companies and associations promoting vaccine distribution.
A third of the WHO budget, over a billion dollars, goes into the salaries of WHO staff spread across huge luxury locations around the world. The average salary of those who work at the WHO, including delivery workers, is 120 thousand euros completely tax free.
Another full third of the WHO budget goes to consultancy, a completely opaque tool for paying people and organizations around the world at discretion.
WHO spends 160 million on travel around the world. Future staff benefits are a value that cannot be deduced from the balance sheet, but the simple actuarial fluctuation indicates an enormous figure.
Total WHO spending on medicines and medical equipment in Africa is only 45 million. All this enormous organization for less than the budget of a small municipality? Less than the simple travel costs allocated to WHO Africa (53 million).
The WHO director, the Ethiopian of a nationalist communist party, Tedros Ghebreyesus, while he was minister of health in Ethiopia, established relations with the Bill Gates foundation and was appointed to the board of GAVI, the vaccine alliance, overall financiers of the WHO for almost a billion.
Nothing to be happy here, it looks like that the WHO is a supranational organization made of unelected members, in the hands of private billionaire (Bill Gates & C), with huge conflict of interests.
No surprise that lots of politicians from around the world are calling for abolish the WHO.
It is not far from reality to say that the WHO is in the hands of Bill Gates and Big Pharma.
