UK Charity Reveals 'Sex-ploitation' By Peace-Keepers
7 May 2008
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http://www.4rfv.co.uk/nationalnews.asp?id=76570Save the Children has revealed children in post-conflict zones are suffering at the hands of peace and aid workers.
The UK charity has called for the setting up of an international watchdog to monitor the foreign workers, who according to the charity are abusing the very children they were sent to protect.
The announcement came following research in the Ivory Coast Southern Sudan and Haiti.
The charity said it had sacked three of its own workers for breaching its codes after three men were dismissed after having sex with girls aged 17, which the charity said was a sackable offence, despite being legal.
The UN has said it welcomes the charity's report, which says it will study closely.
According to Save the Children, an Ivory Coast boy told them the girls are promised mobile phones and food rations.
