UN Peacekeepers Deployed. Women and Children Hardest Hit.
We need to Save the Children from the United Nations
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 proposed an international watchdog be set up.
The study doesn’t address the brothels full of coerced women the UN peacekeepers were running in Bosnia and Kosovo or the abuses in East Timor and Cambodia that were well-documented in 2005 and ten years before that.
It’s long past time that the UN folded up its operation. It serves little useful purpose that ad hoc groups of concerned nations couldn’t do themselves, and tends to do far more harm than good.
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