UN apparently not as evil as RW'ers say it is, has fired over 150 Peacekeepers for sex abuse

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The United Nations has investigated more than 300 members of U.N. peacekeeping missions for alleged sexual exploitation and abuse during the past three years and more than half were fired or sent home, according to a senior U.N. official.

The announcement came as the United Nations was trying to determine whether a report in a British newspaper involved new allegations or ones the U.N. had investigated or was investigating. The Daily Telegraph report alleged U.N. personnel in southern Sudan were involved in sexual exploitation and abuse of more than 20 children.

U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Jane Holl Lute said Friday that the U.N. has done more in the last two years than ever before to try to combat sex abuse in its 16 peacekeeping missions "but we're not satisfied with where we are."

With nearly 200,000 people from more than 100 countries rotating through the peacekeeping missions every year, some people "are going to behave badly," she told a news conference. "What's different now is ... our determination to stay with this problem ... and constantly improve our ability to deal with it."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070106/ap_on_re_eu/un_sex_abuse

I remember RW'ers trying to smear the UN because of this, it looks like they handled their sex scandal better than the Republican Party handled the sex scandal that was Mark Foley.

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1. well -- repukes can't even do that.

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2. Also,

I'm reasonably sure that UN peacekeepers are forbidden from engaging in any sexual conduct with the local populace. So not all the "more than half" are likely rapists, they may have simply been caught frequenting the local "red light distict," this not to say that some may not have committed rape.

Bottomlime: The UN generally does the best it can in terms of enforcing proper conduct.