{"id":59048,"date":"2015-06-01T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=59048"},"modified":"2015-06-01T10:13:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T09:13:59","slug":"leaked-internal-documents-show-u-n-ignored-car-child-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/06\/leaked-internal-documents-show-u-n-ignored-car-child-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Internal Documents Show U.N. Ignored CAR Child Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 29 2015<\/em> – Leaked United Nations documents show high-level staff knew of abuses by soldiers in the Central African Republic and failed to act, all while planning the removal of U.N. whistleblower Anders Kompass.<\/p>\n

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Anders Kompass, Director for Field Operations and Technical Cooperation of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, was asked to resign after handing the report on child abuse by French peacekeepers in the Central African Republic to French authorities. Credit: UN Photo\/Violaine Martin<\/p><\/div>\n

Twenty-three soldiers from France, Chad and Equatorial Guinea are implicated in the abuse, according to one of the reports.<\/p>\n

The documents<\/a>,\u00a0released Friday by the organisation AIDS-Free World as part of their Code Blue <\/a>campaign, implicate the U.N. in making no attempt to stop the ongoing crimes or protect children, and then scrambling to cover up inaction.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe documents indicate a total failure of the U.N. to act on claims of sexual abuse, even when they know that U.N. involvement might be the surest route to stopping crimes and ensuring justice,\u201d said Paula Donovan, AIDS-Free World\u2019s co-director, in a statement.<\/p>\n

Included in the leak is Anders Kompass\u2019 own account of the events, which shows his claim that he was asked to resign by the High Commissioner for Human Rights Prince Zeid Ra\u2019ad Al Hussein, who was acting on a request from the head of U.N. Peacekeeping, Herve Ladsous.<\/p>\n

Another revelation is an email chain involving Joan Dubinsky, Director, U.N. Ethics Office; Susana Malcorra, Chef de Cabinet, Executive Office of the Secretary-General; Carman Lapointe, Under Secretary General for Office for Internal Oversight Services; and Zeid Ra\u2019ad Al Hussein, High Commissioner for Human Rights, with the subject \u201cCONFIDENTIAL \u2014 Call from DPR Sweden regarding Anders Kompass\u201d, dated Apr. 7-10, 2015, detailing discussions across U.N. departments about Kompass\u2019 case.<\/p>\n

AIDS-Free World suggested that the latest documents bring into question the independence of the U.N.\u2019s Office for Internal Oversight Services and Ethics Office, which is supposed to operate at arm\u2019s length from the rest of the U.N. system, to ensure accountability.<\/p>\n

The documents show that the U.N. Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) had evidence of abuse by the soldiers on May 19, 2014. Then, during a June 18 interview, a 13-year-old boy said he couldn\u2019t number all the times he\u2019d been forced to perform oral sex on soldiers but the most recent had been between June 8 and 12, 2014 \u2013 several weeks after the first UNICEF interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy agreeing to be interviewed by the UN, the children expected the abuse to stop and the perpetrators to be arrested. When children report sexual abuse, adults must report it to the authorities. A child needs protection and, by definition, does not have the agency to decide whether to press charges. They deserved the protection they assumed they would receive once the UN knew of their abuse,\u201d AIDS-Free World said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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Edited by Kitty Stapp<\/em><\/p>\n

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