Zero reports is not cause for celebration, it's cause for alarm

When I open the annual report of a large agency that says it works with millions of people in a brutal crisis, and I see the number "zero violations," I don't celebrate.

I worry.

I have spent years trying to understand why survivors of sexual exploitation and abuse stay silent, and what it would actually take to build a system they can trust.

In a country shaped by years of war, where vulnerability multiplies and humanitarian organizations operate under constant pressure, I have come to believe that the real question is not whether abuse exists.

It is whether survivors have a genuine path to speak up.

This is the system I am trying to build in Ukraine: one that does not protect institutional reputations, but stands, without compromise, on the side of survivors.

If the system doesn't see a person, it can't protect them. ...