Ban promises UN probe of sex abuse by peacekeepers
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said Tuesday the United Nations will investigate allegations by a leading children’s charity that U.N. peacekeepers are involved in widespread sexual abuse of children.
The report by Save the Children UK, based on field research in southern Sudan, Ivory Coast and Haiti, describes a litany of sexual crimes committed by peacekeepers and international relief workers against children as young as 6 . . .