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December 19, 2019

Report: U.N. Peacekeepers Fathered & Abandoned Hundreds of Children in Haiti
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A new study has found United Nations peacekeepers stationed in Haiti
between 2004 to 2017 fathered and abandoned hundreds of children there.
The study is based on interviews with over 2,000 Haitians who lived near
the U.N. peacekeepers' bases and who spoke about the sexual exploitation
and abuse of Haitian women and girls as young as 11 years old. The study
is the latest evidence of international peacekeepers' pattern of sexual
abuse in Haiti - which included trading food for sex with women and
children in desperate poverty.


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