w h. o. robert foreman felt as an investigative journalist who broke the story of w. h. o abuses and democrats republic of congo. he says, scores of victims have now come forward between our 2 investigations for the new humanitarian and thomson reuters and this commission that was set up by w h o. we're now looking at more than 150 women who have gone on the record to say that they were abused, exploited in many cases, raped by responders working for the ball, the response. overwhelmingly. w h o employees. overwhelmingly foreigners working for w h o. and one of the more striking aspects of this was the fact that the abuser is organized sort of rackets of abuse and indeed used the resources of the response to engage in their view. so as an example, in a number of instances, dr. were sent in marked w h o vehicles w h o drivers to pick up women to ferry them to hotels, which doubled as offices for w h ho. where those women were sexually exploited or abused in at least one case a w h o driver was sent in a mark w h of vehicle to kidnap a minor was brought to one of these hote

abused in at least one case a w h o driver was sent to the mark w h o vehicle to kidnap a minor was brought to one of these hotels and was raped by a w h. ho, employee, robert. these are just shocking allegation. senior has suspended funding to w h o programs in congress. is that enough? and is that in fact creating more of an issue for the victims in this situation? punishing them rather than punishing dollars eligible? responsible. well, the reality is that it is the case that you funds as well as world bank funds, us government funds, you fund all the funds that went toward this response, did indeed enable the sorts of response these sorts of abuse rather on a massive scale. so it can be said that it is potentially a very small helpful 1st measure to hold w h o to account for things that occurred in the country. and it's important that you put on the team requirement that restitution be paid to victims of the sorts of abuse before it will consider resuming funding to w h. o. but one of the more important questions that needs to be asked is overall institutional accountability, including accountability for senior leaders within w h ho, director general pe