To add insult to injury some talking head that I saw informed the viewers that what we need to do is to form an agency to follow the UN worker around to make sure that they don’t do this.
May 27, 2008
Widespread child sex abuse by UN peace troops and aid staff, says charity
Jenny Booth
"An international watchdog must be set up urgently to investigate widespread cases of child sex abuse by aid workers and peacekeepers, a British charity said today."
Save the Children demanded action after its research found that starving and desperate youngsters as young as six were being coerced to sell sex for food, money, soap and even mobile phones in war zones and disaster areas.
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Jasmine Whitbread, chief executive of Save the Children UK, said: "This research exposes the despicable actions of a small number of perpetrators who are sexually abusing some of the most vulnerable children in the world, the very children they are meant to protect.
" It is hard to imagine a more grotesque abuse of authority or flagrant violation of children's rights."
The report said that all organisations, including Save the Children, had their share of abusers involved in "some of the most despicable abuse against some of the world's most vulnerable children".
Charities and peacekeeping bodies should face up to the fact that the scale of abuse was "significant" and that victims were being let down by "endemic failures" in responding to reported incidents, it concluded.
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Accused of turning a blind eye for decades to cases of abuse by its peacekeepers, the world body recommended in 2005 that erring soldiers be punished, their salaries frozen and a fund set up to help any women or girls made pregnant.
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Nick Birnback, from the United Nations' department of peacekeeping operations, said the details in the report were "absolutely appalling".
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The vast majority of UN peacekeepers all over the world ... serve with honour and courage in very difficult situations and don't engage in this unacceptable behaviour.
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Comment; Why aren't countries being named? Mighty wicked charges to make a generalization. ~Davis Comment; Why is the United Nations trying to take over the world, when they can not even get stuff like this right? ~ Sanchez