As the UN’s first-ever Victims’ Rights Advocate, Jane Connors has to confront an uncomfortable reality: sexual abuse and exploitation – or SEA for short - carried out by UN personnel.

Her most recent report detailed eighty SEA cases at peacekeeping and political missions in 2019, and 95 allegations recorded at other UN entities.

Three years on from the start of her mandate, which began in September 2017, UN News’s Conor Lennon, spoke to Ms. Connors who said that, since then, it has become more apparent that the on-going issue of sexual abuse and exploitation goes well beyond the peacekeeping sector.