The United Nations is investigating Moroccan peacekeepers suspected of sexually abusing girls younger than 18 in Ivory Coast and possibly leaving some of them pregnant. As many as 100 girls may have been abused over the past several months.
(Abidjan, Ivory Coast)
Manhattan-based Human Rights Watch said that militiamen and renegade soldiers have raped and beaten tens of thousands of women and young girls in eastern Congo, and nearly all the crimes have gone unpunished by the country’s broken judicial system. Hundreds of new rapes are reported every week, but only 10 soldiers and militants have been convicted of the crimes since the end of the country’s devastating five-year war in 2002.
The United Nations released a report on the sex abuse by its peacekeepers that recommended withholding salaries of the guilty