U.N. Battles Sex Abuse by Peacekeepers
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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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The United Nations has suspended a Moroccan peacekeeping unit in Ivory Coast after an internal investigation into allegations of &quot;sexual exploitation and abuse&quot; by some of its soldiers.
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WASHINGTON -- Human rights violations and outright atrocities are growing more rampant by the day in Haiti as police, former soldiers, and rebel groups wreak havoc in a violent struggle that local authorities and United Nations peacekeepers appear unable to control, according to US officials, foreign diplomats, and local human rights monitors.
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Governments are undermining progress in ending the use of children as soldiers. That is the conclusion of a coalition of the world&#39;s leading human-rights organizations.
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Fijian peacekeepers this month became the first to answer the call of a seven-month-old UN Security Council resolution urging a special protection force for United Nations workers in Iraq.
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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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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says peacekeepers cannot be above the law on sexual abuse.
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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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The United Nations is investigating Moroccan peacekeepers suspected of sexually abusing girls under age 18 in Ivory Coast and possibly leaving some of them pregnant, a U.N. spokeswoman said Sunday.
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The UN children&#39;s fund on Monday called for pressure to be maintained to stop female circumcision in Egypt, where more than three quarters of 15 to 17 year-old girls are subjected to the practice.
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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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Zimbabwean police are still beating and torturing human rights activists and opponents of the government despite mediation efforts launched by fellow African nations, Amnesty International said Friday.
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In places like Congo and Kosovo, peacekeepers have been accused of abusing the people they're protecting.
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Women in Darfur continue to be subjected to rape by all sides in the brutal conflict in western Sudanese region, the U.N. human rights chief said Thursday &#151; International Women's Day.
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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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Women and girls are being raped, violently abused and humiliated in war zones around the world, but national authorities do little or nothing to punish offenders, Amnesty International reported yesterday.
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A leading human rights group has issued a global call to action to challenge violence against women and the failure of governments to prevent it.