Child sex abuse by UN workers. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)

A shocking report jointly issued on February 26th by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Save The Children detailed evidence of widespread sexual exploitation of children at refugee camps in West Africa. According to the report, aid workers from the UNHCR and a number of different NGOs have been sexually abusing children in camps in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone, where refugees have fled to escape civil war. According to Paul Nolan of Save The Children, "what emerged was a problem that was widespread, quite possibly endemic and which also included people who were actually in place to provide those refugee children with the care and protection they were entitled to.... It's a problem we know has been around for some time. Nolan also admitted that the investigation had uncovered a "fairly widespread culture of exploitation" in which "a whole range of people in a position of authority and trust were abusing these positions. All in return for sexual favors." Still more despicably, many aid worke rs apparently coerced sexual ...