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The U.N., Preying on the Weak

By Peter Dennis

Tuesday, April 12, 2005; Page A21


Anyone who was shocked by the most recent revelations of sexual misconduct by
United Nations staff has never set foot in a U.N.-sponsored refugee camp. Sex
crimes are only one especially disturbing symptom of a culture of abuse that
exists in the United Nations precisely because the United Nations and its staff
lack accountability.

This lack of accountability is the central blemish on today's United Nations,
and it lies behind most of the recent headlines. Whether taking advantage of a
malnourished refugee or of a lucrative oil-for-food contract, the temptation is
there, the act is easy and the risk of punishment is nil.

I arrived in Sierra Leone as a legal aid worker in the summer of 2003, one year
after the release of a damaging report on sexual abuse in U.N. refugee camps in
West Africa. Although the report's description of widespread sexual abuse had
prompted Secretary General Kofi Annan to issue a strongly worded "zero
tolerance" policy, I found abuse of a sexual nature almost every day