CITIZEN ALERT v1.31
AFRICAN SEX FOR FOOD SCANDAL
This is a story I stumbled across this morning while reading through H.R. 5522, the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2007. I will be looking into it more this week research wise.
Apparently, UN Peace Keepers and workers from the World Food Programme, as reported by the BBC, are exchanging aid and food to Liberians for sex with girls as young as 8 years old. Even teachers have been exchanging sex for good grades!
The story I first read was from May of this year, but another article, also from the BBC, had reports of sexual abuse by UN workers dating back as far as 2002, and now H.R. 5522 reads while alloting $92,698,000 in aid to Liberia it asks that the "Government of Liberia, in coordination with the United Nations, the diplomatic community, and international aid agencies to arrest, prosecute, and appropriately punish U.N. peacekeeping personnel, aid workers and others allegedly involved in the sexual exploitation of girls and women in Liberia".
This doesn't sound like the problem is being addressed and the aid workers fully investigated to me if we're still asking for arrest 4 years later.
More to come on this as Liberia is not the only country involved.
ARTICLE FROM THE BBC
Apparently, UN Peace Keepers and workers from the World Food Programme, as reported by the BBC, are exchanging aid and food to Liberians for sex with girls as young as 8 years old. Even teachers have been exchanging sex for good grades!
The story I first read was from May of this year, but another article, also from the BBC, had reports of sexual abuse by UN workers dating back as far as 2002, and now H.R. 5522 reads while alloting $92,698,000 in aid to Liberia it asks that the "Government of Liberia, in coordination with the United Nations, the diplomatic community, and international aid agencies to arrest, prosecute, and appropriately punish U.N. peacekeeping personnel, aid workers and others allegedly involved in the sexual exploitation of girls and women in Liberia".
This doesn't sound like the problem is being addressed and the aid workers fully investigated to me if we're still asking for arrest 4 years later.
More to come on this as Liberia is not the only country involved.
ARTICLE FROM THE BBC
posted by Bobot Adrenaline at 7:39 AM
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