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UK IN THE SPOTLIGHT OVER UN SEX CRIMES, WHISTLEBLOWER WARNS OF ‘RAPE CULTURE’
March 21, 2021
Martin Jay
International Policy Digest
A rape victim and whistleblower is accusing the British government and MPs of “hypocrisy” over its recent grandiose statements on tackling sex crimes in the aid sector.
As the UN appears to be drowning in a deluge of rape allegations made against its soldiers in the world’s hotspots like the DRC, a UN whistleblower is warning that if the British government doesn’t follow up on its own recent MPs recommendations on sex crimes in the aid sector, then a “rape culture” will engulf UN agencies themselves,