UN Troops Sexually Exploit For Food ... AgainThis time it isn't boys in Kosovo, it's young girls in the Congo. But there's an alarming trend whenever UN troops without the US are involved. Testimony from girls and aid workers in the Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp in Bunia, in the north-east corner of Congo, claims that every night teenage girls crawl through a wire fence to an adjoining UN compound to sell their bodies to Moroccan and Uruguayan soldiers. The trade, which according to one victim results in a banana or a cake to feed to her infant son, is taking place despite a pledge by the UN to adopt a "zero tolerance" attitude to cases of sexual misconduct by those representing the organisation. Article Here |
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