UN Staff in Uganda Accused of Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
Allegations
include trading food for sex from vulnerable women.
The United Nations has launched an investigation
into allegations of sexual abuse and the exploitation of vulnerable women by
members of its staff in Uganda’s drought-stricken northeastern Karamoja region.
The inquiry by the UN’s Office of
Internal Oversight Services, which began early this month, follows allegations
by a whistleblower of sexual abuse and exploitation by a United Nations Population
Fund (UNFPA) staffer against a “female victim” – and a more general pattern of
serious sexual misconduct by other UN staff working in what is Uganda’s poorest
region.
The allegations centre on the World
Food Programme compound in the town of Moroto, and involve UN staff demanding
sex from local women in exchange fo...