RIGHTS: U.N. Lacks Muscle to Fight Sex Abuse in Peacekeeping

by Thalif Deen , IPS Inter Press Service - Women: Leading the Way on Jul 02, 2008

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 2 (IPS) - When the United Nations Security Council adopted a
key resolution last month critical of violence against women, the
condemnation was also directed at the increasing number of
peacekeepers, mostly soldiers, expelled from U.N. missions on
charges of rape or sexual abuse.