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Humanitarian Workers and Rape

By Corey Rayburnyung

Via abyss2hope, there was this recent story on CNN about humanitarian workers engaging in sexual violence:Humanitarian aid workers and United Nation peacekeepers are sexually abusing small children in several war-ravaged and food-poor countries, a leading European charity has said. Children as young as 6 have been forced to have sex with aid workers and peacekeepers in return for food and money, Save the Children UK said in a report released Tuesday. After interviewing hundreds of children, the charity said it found instances of rape, child prostitution, pornography, indecent sexual assault and trafficking of children for sex. "It is hard to imagine a more grotesque abuse of authority or flagrant violation of children's rights," said Jasmine Whitbread, chief executive of Save the Children UK...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on June 10, 2008 (boomark / email).