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Gathering 2007 field data from southern Sudan, Ivory Coast and Haiti, Save the Children found that the majority of victims were "orphans, children separated from their parents and families, and children in families dependent on humanitarian assistance." Those children without familial support were most likely to not report abuse because of powerlessness and a fear of stigmatization in their community. The study included instances of verbal sexual abuse, coerced sex, child pornography and young children trading sexual favors for food, money, soap, and even mobile phones...
...most victims girls. Peacekeeping troops were reported as abusers more often than aid workers, but this could be due to the far greater number of troops and higher rates of reporting by the U.N. "It's incipient and insidious across the sector," said Dominic Nutt, a spokesman for Save the Children...
Sexual misconduct accusations were leveled against employees of 23 international aid organizations, including Save the Children, the United Nations and the World Food Programme. The U.N. alone reported 371 cases of sexual abuse in 2006, sparking increased internal protocols, including field discipline teams, increased training and telephone reporting hotlines...
...most disturbing findings of the Save the Children study is that many abusers are never held to account for their actions. Of the 856 sexual misconduct allegations against U.N. personnel and peacekeepers between 2004 and 2006, less than 40% were resolved within the year the abuse was reported. In many cases, the suspected abusers were either fired from the organization or repatriated back to their country of origin. "In general the U.N. as a whole has a zero tolerance policy on this," says Michael Klaus, spokesman for UNICEF in Geneva. "If these cases are proven, those responsible are immediately fired...
With the inefficacy of those options in mind, Save the Children has recommended the creation of a new global watchdog organization to monitor and evaluate agency efforts to tackle abuse. The group also recommends the U.N. create local systems within their individual operations to allow locals to log complaints. "We want it to be a lot easier for children to come forward in any country, in places where there's a legal system," said Nutt...