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UN report urges better mechanisms to curb DRCongo sex abuse cases.

Asia Africa Intelligence Wire

| March 25, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Excerpt from report by UN regional information network IRIN on 25 March

Nairobi, 25 March: A new UN report issued on Thursday [24 March] said that efforts to stop UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from sexually abusing the local population have not been effective and it recommended establishing better mechanisms to investigate cases.

"Sexual exploitation and abuse appeared to be ongoing, thereby highlighting the inadequacy of current measures to address the problem in peacekeeping operations," Prince Zayd Ra'ad Zayd Al-Husayn, Jordan's permanent representative to the United …

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