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Study: Massive Sex Abuse of Children by UN Workers

Ann Shibler / JBS.org:
A study released May 27 by the London-based organization, Save the Children UK, found that UN peacekeepers and other aid workers around the world are perpetrators of a huge range of child exploitation and sexual abuse, running the gamut from forced sex, child prostitution, child pornography, sexual slavery, sexual assault, child trafficking, and even children forced to trade sex for food. Out of 38 focus group discussions with 250 children and 90 adults, 20 of the groups pointed fingers at the UN as having the worst record of participation in the sexual abuse of children.

Related:
Report Details Child Abuse; Group Cites Aid Workers, U.N. Troops
By Colum Lynch / The Washington Post
UNITED NATIONS -- U.N. peacekeepers and international aid workers from 23 organizations have engaged in sexual exploitation of children, including some as young as 6, in Haiti, Ivory Coast and South Sudan, according to a report by Save the Children, a British-based aid agency. The organization said its findings, combined with reports of similar abuse elsewhere, suggest that efforts to rein in such abuse over the past decade have failed. It concluded that sexual abuse of children -- often involving exchanges of food for sex -- probably occurs in virtually every post-conflict zone, and it called for creation of a global watchdog organization to probe such abuse.

Posted by Editor at May 28, 2008 08:05 AM