UN warns on South Asia child sex

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BBC News

The trade in women and children for sex is spiralling out of control in South Asia, the UN children's fund, Unicef, has warned.

South Asia provides most of the 500,000 women and children trafficked each year in Asia, Unicef estimates.

"It is one of the blights of South Asia. The situation is getting out of hand," Unicef regional director Sadig Rasheed said in Sri Lanka.

He said many problems could be stopped "tomorrow" if men said no to child sex.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3700110.stm

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1. Another reason to bash the U.N.

If you're Neil Bush, anyways....

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2. The UN should know...

United Nations child sex shame

Kalemie, Democratic Republic of Congo - The United Nations truck to the biggest brothel in Kalemie departs every Saturday night at "21 hundred hours", as they say in the military. And soldiers they are, including South Africans, the men who descend from the white truck with official UN logos.
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Up to 45 UN soldiers, mainly Uruguayans, quickly link up with the available girls, some as young as 14 years. The whole operation is supposed to be over at "0100 hours". The weekly event is monitored by uniformed colleagues in an attempt to ensure that everything happens "in an orderly way", says a spokesperson for the UN force, Monuc.
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A former United Nations police officer is suing a British security firm over claims that it covered up the involvement of her fellow officers in sex crimes and prostitution rackets in the Balkans. Kathryn Bolkovac, an American policewoman, was hired by DynCorp Aerospace in Aldershot for a UN post aimed at cracking down on sexual abuse and forced prostitution in Bosnia.
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The overseas personnel and officials of the UN and NATO have provided much of the demand for prostitution. Madeleine Rees claims, “When the civil war ended in 1992 there were few curfews and ordinary people didn’t have cars or money.” In addition to approximately 20,000 NATO troops and aid workers that were stationed in Bosnia, there are some 1,600 officers from 48 different countries serving with the IPTF.
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A similar development has taken place in Kosovo where prostitution was relatively small-scale before the establishment of the protectorate. While it is estimated that internationals account for 30 percent of the clientele, they provide 80 percent of the revenue, making them the most important patrons. The province has some 120 strip-clubs. One of the first to open was the Apache club, named after the US helicopters used in the 1999 conflict, only 14 kilometres from the massive US military base Camp Bondsteel.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/inequal/0729un.htm