"Where do I sign?"
Posted on 06/13/2015 12:23:22 PM PDT by pabianice
A draft UN report has revealed that UN peacekeepers routinely flout a ban of the international organization and pay for sex with money, dresses, jewelry, perfume, cell phones and other items in a flagrant exploitation of poverty-stricken populations they are meant to protect.
Reuters received a copy of the draft report, which was conducted by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), and detailed how UN forces bought the sexual services of hundreds of women in Haiti and Liberia who said they were forced to sell their bodies due to hunger and poverty.
"Evidence from two peacekeeping mission countries demonstrates that transactional sex is quite common but underreported in peacekeeping missions," concluded the OIOS report, which was dated May 15.
The reportedly common practice may have wide-reaching consequences, as the UN deploys 250,000 peacekeeping troops, police and civilians in 16 global operation.
"The number of condoms distributed, along with the number of personnel undergoing voluntary counselling and confidential testing for HIV...suggest that sexual relationships between peacekeeping personnel and the local population may be routine," noted the report.
A UN bulletin back in 2003 forbid peacekeepers from buying sex for cash or goods, the report added, noting that the step was taken because the practice severely harms the international body's credibility.
Breaking down the numbers, the report listed 480 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse committed by UN peacekeepers between 2008 and 2013; in 2014 another 51 complaints were filed - however, the report acknowledged there is likely heavy underreporting.
Making the phenomenon even more damaging, between 2008 and 2013 a full third of the cases involved children.
"Despite continuing reductions in reported allegations, that are partly explained by underreporting, effectiveness of enforcement against sexual exploitation and abuse is hindered by a complex architecture, prolonged delays, unknown and varying outcomes, and severely deficient victim assistance," OIOS said.
The worst offenders were peacekeeping missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Haiti and South Sudan.
Anneke Van Woudenberg, Africa deputy director at the NGO Human Rights Watch, told Al Jazeera on Thursday, "this is something that we have seen in many countries of the world where the UN is operating and it has been a problem that has been going on for many years."
She noted immunity from prosecution is a key problem, saying, "if those peacekeepers commit crimes (while on mission), they cannot be held to account in those countries. They can only be held to account in their home countries, and far too often this immunity is like a protective cloak."
Courtesy of israelnationalnews.com
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I am shocked to learn that people far from home hired prostitutes.
Never happened ancient times. Or in Napoleonic times. Or in the Great War. Or in World War Two. Or during Vietnam.
Nope.
Totally new phenomenon.
Strictly limited to the third world of course.
Those foreign tourists coming to the US don’t hire prostitutes. And people who travel to Britain or Germany don’t hire prostitutes there either.
Either that or it is a problem endemic to the human condition.
Haven’t we been reading similar reports for many years?? So, what’s new??
Given this information, the SJWs are going to cry, “RAAACIST!”
Sounds like Islam.
Trading goods for sex...what did they expect them to do
leave IOU’s?
That might be a factor.
Well....in the past they have simply raped the women and children. Now they at least have the decency to trade something for the sex.
Never happened ancient times. Or in Napoleonic times. Or in the Great War. Or in World War Two. Or during Vietnam. "
Speaking for the KW generation, my thoughts exactly...
More like Piecekeepers.
"Where do I sign?"
This has been going on for 25 years at least, probably much longer.
How else can the UN get men to go to the armpits of the earth.
This is different than hiring a prostitute. This is withholding donated food/medicine in exchange for sex from starving and/or sick people or people with sick children. It’s not the peacekeeper’s goods goods to be exchanged in the first place. Secondly, even if it his goods it would be immoral to take advantage of a starving/sick person
UNaccountable bureaucrats. DEFUND/DISMANTLE the U.N. We do not have money to waste on UNaccountable bureaucrats.
We don’t have money to waste on our own unaccountable bureaucrats…
http://www.usa.gov/directory/federal/
http://www.politics1.com/cabinet.htm
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. - (1) Declaration grievances
Cut to: int. Airborne B-52
Kong:
Survival Kit contents check. In them you will find: one 45 caliber automatic, two boxes of ammunition, four days concentrated emergency rations, one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills, one miniature combination Rooshan phrase book and Bible, one hundred dollars in rubles, one hundred dollars in gold, nine packs of chewing gum, one issue of prophylactics, three lipsticks, three pair of nylon stockings — shoot, a fellah could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff....
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Some things never change.
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