New sex misconduct claims hit UN
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The UN suspends two peacekeepers serving in Burundi following allegations of sexual misconduct.
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The U.N. said Friday that it had confined a group of peacekeepers to their base in Ivory Coast after receiving allegations of widespread sexual abuse, the latest in a string of accusations of sexual violations by U.N. forces around the world.
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The United Nations has appealed to world leaders to wake up to the widespread mistreatment of migrant women, a silent human army abused as everything from sex workers to domestic slaves.
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NAIROBI, 24 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - The UN has sent two teams to investigate 150 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by civilian and military personnel serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a senior UN official in New York City told
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U.N. peacekeepers have been  banned from having sex with the local population in Congo  following allegations of widespread abuse of women and girls,  the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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World News, KINSHASA - The United Nations is investigating reports that Rwandan soldiers carried out human rights abuses against civilians in Democratic Republic of Congo last month, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland on Friday called sexual abuse "a cancer in Congolese society" and urged military and civilian authorities to punish those responsible for rapes.
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During a year-end news conference on Tuesday, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan admitted that allegations of corruption in the oil-for-food program have &quot;cast a shadow&quot; over that operation and the UN itself.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 30 -- Nearly 180 soldiers, civilians and police officers in U.N. peacekeeping missions have been targeted for disciplinary action for sexual abuse since the beginning of 2004, the chief U.N. spokesman said Thursday.
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UNAIDS and the Global Coalition for Women and AIDS recently concluded their &quot;16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence&quot; campaign, aimed at raising awareness of the &quot;links between gender-based violence and the spread of HIV infection&quot;.
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Reports of rape are still rife in Darfur, western Sudan, perpetrators of abuses act with impunity, and civilians are being pressured to return to insecure areas, a UN team said on Monday.
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Moroccan U.N. peacekeepers in Ivory Coast are alleged to have sexually abused girls as young as 13 over a three-year period as units rotated through the West African country, U.N. officials said.
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Linked in the past to sex crimes in East Timor, and prostitution in Cambodia and Kosovo, U.N. peacekeepers have now been accused of sexually abusing the very population they were deployed to protect in Congo.
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A senior U.N. official on Friday   called sexual abuse a "cancer" in the Democratic Republic of   the Congo and told military and civilian leaders they had to   condemn it publicly and prosecute offenders.
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UNITED NATIONS -- A UN office probing fraud and misconduct concluded that Ruud Lubbers, the UN high commissioner for refugees, sexually harassed a woman staff member, but Secretary General Kofi Annan rejected the charges.
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The United Nations is investigating reports that Rwandan soldiers carried out human rights abuses against civilians in Democratic Republic of Congo last month, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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A U.N. internal investigative unit has found an unexpected amount of fraud and abuse in some 250 cases currently underway, including alleged sexual and financial offenses.