"United Nations (UN) peacekeepers in conflict zones around the world are 'regularly' engaging in 'sexual exploitation and abuse' of members of their host communities, according to a report released Monday by the UN's Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS)...
Though the vast majority of cases concerned peacekeepers in African nations - those in the Democratic Republic of Congo being the most numerous - it appears violations have also been committed by members of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) based in south Lebanon...NOW learned independently of two separate claims of UNIFIL troops paying for sex in Lebanon.
'I met one woman in prostitution who said that she was approached by a UNIFIL soldier, and he and all his colleagues paid for sex,' said Ghada Jabbour, head of the anti-trafficking unit at KAFA, a Lebanese NGO working against exploitation of and violence against women. 'It was in a bar in south Lebanon, a regular bar [...] she was bought for sex by many soldiers...'"