UN Rape Squads

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United Nations staff accused of raping women and girls

Rohan Smith | News Limited (Australia) | 6 February 2016

http://www.news.com.au/world/africa/united-nations-staff-accused-of-raping-women-and-girls/news-story/8c78c7ffbe073e649bdd658b46e6abda

THEY were hired to protect vulnerable women and young girls. Instead, it is alleged, the protectors became predators.

That's the story emerging from the Central African Republic this week where seven women and one 14-year-old girl say they were set upon by United Nations peacekeepers. Worse still, the UN staff are accused of using food as a trade piece in exchange for sex.

As shocking as that might sound, it is not a unique experience. Last year, an independent panel released a report on sexual exploitation and abuse by UN staff and peacekeepers that showed at times perpetrators committed the crimes while wearing the agency's signature blue helmets.

Human Rights Watch says UN staff were implicated in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, East Timor, Haiti, Liberia, Sierra Leone and South Sudan, among others.

Troops from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo were also accused. [more ...]