UN report charts sex exploitation
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A new UN report says 69 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse were reported in 10 peacekeeping missions in 2015 and calls for on-site court-martials of alleged perpetrators and DNA testing to identify them.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s report, obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, for the first time provides the names of all countries whose troops are allegedly involved. The allegations will be posted online and updated with the progress and outcome of investigations.
The 69 allegations reported last year were a marked increase from the 52 in 2014, and higher than the 66 in 2013, the report said.
Nearly one-third of the 2015 allegations — 22 — are from the UN mission in the Central African Republic, which has made headlines over reports of some peacekeepers sent to protect civilians instead trading sex for money and sexually abusing minors.
The UN has been under pressure to act more quickly in tackling sexual exploitation and abuse after an independent panel in December described the world body’s “gross institutional failure” in handling allegations against French and other peacekeepers in CAR. That report said the months-long delay in addressing children’s accounts of abuse had led to even more reported assaults. Peacekeeping sexual abuse and exploitation has been one of the most persistent and embarrassing problems for the UN.
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