Thread by @ElizabethleaVos

UK Parliament Publishes Full 2002 UN Report On Sex For Aid In West Africa

#Aidtoo #Metoo

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Note: it wasn't even the United Nations that fully published the entire report, but the UK Parliament. That should tell you how little has changed since 2002 when the summary of the report was published and caused a storm of controversy.

The entire 2002 report UNHCR report is available here.

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We were grateful that @DisobedientNews was able to speak with Asmita Naik, the co-author of the report, who told us about the resistance the report faced after it was partially published in 2002:

#AidToo

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The UNHCR report also confirms the long-term nature of abuses - even after they were brought to the attention of UNHCR. #AidToo #MeToo

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.@Disobedientnews has reported on a multitude of cases in which ‘#humanitarianaid’ was used as a cover for criminal activity, including child trafficking, sex trafficking, the production & sale of child pornography. One such ring was run from the basement of UNICEF in the 1980s.

In 2015 - THIRTEEN YEARS - after the UNHCR report, UN forces from France, Chad and Equatorial Guinea were reported to have raped and sodomized refugee children in Central Africa. The incidents were said to involve children as young as nine years old.

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This 2015 atrocity involved horrific abuse by child rapists wearing UN uniforms who were reported to lure and "reward" young children with food and water.

The ultimate power imbalance is leading inexorably to the worst abuses over and over again.

#AidToo #Metoo #Childrentoo

Yet again, a secret internal UN report is alluded to but not published. Yet again nothing changes. Yet again there is impunity for atrocity in the name of "humanitarianism" funded by well-wishers and public tax funds.

#AidToo #MeToo #ChildrenToo

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This sick misuse of aid was most recently demonstrated in the arrest of a self-styled missionary who mercilessly preyed on Haitian children. Press reports indicate that the abuser, James Daniel Arbaugh, lived in #Haiti for approximately 15 years.

#AidToo

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The two-faced reality of abuse in aid work was epitomized recently by the arrest of #JoelDavis, a two-time college dropout and founder of a defunct NGO, who was nonetheless promoted to a position of extreme prestige. #AidToo

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Davis worked to ‘end sexual violence in conflict,’ before his arrest for attempting to arrange the rape of a two-year-old and nine-year-old as well as charges relating to child pornography.

Who can you trust in aid work? Absolutely no one.

#AidToo. #MeToo #ChildrenInCages

We can now state with confidence that the systems put into place to aid populations in crisis have provided a framework and a cover for extreme, widespread predation.

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We can also state with confidence that the situation as it exists on the ground is vastly different to the concept of ‘charity’ or ‘humanitarian work’ as it is sold to us in the developed world. #AidToo #MeToo #ChildrenToo #ChildrenInCages

Aid work is not a vehicle of charity, but is, in a very real sense, a cover for atrocity.

It is a weapon, a blunt instrument of power that is wielded to exploit the most vulnerable populations in crisis around the world.

We can now state that sentiment as fact, not opinion.