The U.N. Has not Done Enough to Provide for Victims of Sexual Abuse
The United Nations will end its 13-year peacekeeping mission in Haiti on October 16, but its legacy is on the line. The mission has been plagued by a series of controversies,…
The U.N. Should Stop Ignoring Victims of Sexual Assault and Children Fathered by Peacekeepers
In less than five months the United Nations will wrap up its 13-year controversial peacekeeping mission in Haiti known as MINUSTAH, but failure to take necessary step to remedy the…
Women Impregnated by Peacekeepers Need UN Cooperation, but Met with Silence
Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) is representing Haitian women who were impregnated, and left without child support payments, by United Nations peacekeepers. The women face housing and food shortages, struggling to…
Lack of Accountability Allows Peacekeeper Sexual Abuse to Continue Running Rampant
While the United Nations peacekeepers were purportedly sent to Haiti to protect the people there, Haitians are not so sure. UN peacekeepers brought cholera to Haiti in 2010, for the…
Hundreds of United Nations Peacekeepers Get Away with Sexual Exploitation
While the United Nations would say its peacekeepers went to Haiti in 2004 to protect the people, many Haitians would disagree. That is especially true for the children and women…
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Impunity for UN Peacekeepers Who Rape Women in Haiti
In talking to women around Haiti, Al Jazeera Fault Lines found only one in twelve women who reported being raped by a United Nations peacekeeper. The one woman who filed…