Peacekeepers 'abusing children'

[Sweetpea]

Children as young as six are being sexually abused by peacekeepers and aid workers, says a leading UK charity.
Children in post-conflict areas are being abused by the very people drafted into such zones to help look after them, says Save the Children.
After research in Ivory Coast, southern Sudan and Haiti, the charity said an international watchdog should be created to deal with the issue.
The UN has said it welcomes the report, which it will study closely. Save the Children said the most shocking aspect of child sex abuse is that most of it goes unreported and unpunished, with children too scared to speak out.

A 13-year-old girl described to the BBC how 10 UN peacekeepers gang-raped her in a field near her Ivory Coast home, and left her bleeding, trembling and vomiting on the ground.

No action has been taken against the soldiers.
The report also found that aid workers have been sexually abusing boys and girls. After research involving hundreds of children from Ivory Coast, southern Sudan and Haiti, the charity said better reporting mechanisms needed to be introduced to deal with what it called "endemic failures" in responding to reported cases of abuse.

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[terrywit]

troops from where is the question?

[Sweetpea]

Yes, I wanted to know that. According to the BBC 24 news, it is happening right across the board.

Ivory coast

50 pays composent la force militaire et la police civile de l'ONUCI : Argentine, Bangladesh, Bénin,

Bolivie, Brésil, Cameroun, Canada, Centrafrique, Chine, Congo, Croatie, Djibouti, République

Dominicaine, Equateur, Salvador, France, Guatemala, Ghana, Gambie, Guinée, Inde, Irlande,

Jordanie, Kenya, Liban, Moldavie, Maroc, Namibie, Népal, Niger, Nigéria, Pakistan, Paraguay,

Pérou, Pologne, Portugal, Phillipines, Roumanie, Russie, Sénégal, Serbie, Sri Lanka, Tchad, Togo,

Tunisie, Turquie, Uruguay, Uganda, Yemen, Zambie.

Sorry it’s in French. But I think the country names are pretty obvious.

http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/mission.../flag_cont.pdf

Sudan.

Main troop contributors: Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal and South Africa.

UNMIS - United Nations Mission In Sudan

Haiti

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Jordan, Nepal, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Phillipines, Sri Lanka, United States and Uruguay Argentina, Benin, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chile, China, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, DR Congo, Egypt, El Salvador, France, Grenada, Guinea, Italy, Jordan, Madagascar, Mali, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Togo, Turkey, United States, Uruguay and Yemen

MINUSTAH: United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti - Facts and Figures

Think the lists speak for themselves really.

[Sweetpea]

Poor kids don't stand a chance.

Peadophiles tend to worm their way into positions of trust with children. Until I read this article in the Metro today it never occurred to me that's one of the places where they operate. The aid agencies just sack them and then they go off and try and get work with other aid agencies when they should be burning the bastards.

[terrywit]

Originally Posted by churchill

The aid agencies just sack them and then they go off and try and get work with other aid agencies when they should be burning the bastards.

Well........ "charity" is a business hence keep a lid on bad PR, I would assume that after the directors salaries, the very plush offices with reduced rates (after all they are a "charity") the large executive cars, the IT the ad campain, the amout spent on starving homless arfican lessbain dwarfs (or what ever) is quite disportionate to whats raked in?

[poppy]

I had of cases like this before, it is appalling. I had no idea what a vast problem it is, a lot could still be hidden as girls wont always tel anyone for fear of being stoned or ostracized by their own if it is found out.