Central African Republic: UN Firms Stance As Peacekeeper Child Sex Abuse Allegations Grow

The UN rights chief has urged France, Equatorial Guinea and Chad to investigate whether soldiers sexually abused children in the Central African Republic. The scandal has implicated UN's peacekeeping mission to CAR.

Rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein urged the countries to investigate whether troops they later assigned to UN missions sexually abused children. A six-page UN report details the alleged abuse by troops from France, Chad and Equatorial Guinea between December 2013 and June 2014 at a center for displaced people at M'Poko airport in the Central African Republic (CAR) capital, Bangui.

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