published by András István Türke on Sat, 10/09/2011 - 00:00
United Nations (UN) peacekeepers in Port Salut, Haiti, have been accused of sexually exploiting local women and girls. Several families living in a poor neighbourhood adjacent to a Uruguayan UN base, reported that young girls, including 16- and 17-year-olds, enter the base late at night and have sex with the soldiers. Mario Joseph, a prominent Haitian lawyer, said that under Haitian law, an individual must be 18 years old to give sexual consent. A person found guilty of sex with a minor would be sentenced to roughly 10-15 years of forced labour.
