UN ignores its own resolution on war rape while some UN "peacekeepers" use their position to get themselves some tender young ass
It's irritating to even have to point out yet againg how corrupt and amoral the UN is.
Some of the salient points from the report:
Thoraya Obaid, head of the U.N. Population Fund, scolded the UN for not enforcing their own resolution on protecting women in conflict zones.
"From Afghanistan to Liberia, from Colombia to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from Burundi to Darfur — the list goes on and on — women and girls, and even men and boys, are being subject to sexual violence, torture and slavery that defy the imagination and bring into sharp focus the cruelty that human beings can inflict on each other," Obaid said.
Obaid noted that in Rwanda, two-thirds of the women who were raped during the 1994 genocide were infected with the HIV virus "and they are dying slow painful deaths from AIDS."
"It is truly sad, and terribly angering, to see the tremendous needs. But it is even more shocking to witness the response so far, which remains completely inadequate," she added.
Louise Arbour, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, urged the Security Council "to use all its influence to generate the political will, as well as the financial support, to protect women's rights and ensure women's access to justice."
Many speakers lamented that the resolution's call for countries in conflict to give women a major voice at peace talks has gone largely unheeded — as has its call for the United Nations to give women top jobs in conflict resolution.
Sexual abuse by U.N. peacekeepers and humanitarian personnel is also far too widespread, he said, citing about 70 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse against U.N. peacekeeping personnel this year just in the Congolese city of Bunia.

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