UN peacekeeping troops regularly exchange goods for sex services.

UN peacekeeping troops regularly exchange goods for the sexual services of those they are supposed to help.

The report, compiled by the Office of Internal Oversight Services of the United Nations, states that hundreds of women in Liberia and Haiti, being in a state of extreme poverty and starving, provided sexual services to peacekeepers.

In exchange, they received money, clothes, jewelry, mobile phones and other items.

The text of the unpublished report turned out to be journalists of Reuters.

From 2008 to 2013, according to the report, around 480 such violations were recorded. At the same time, a third of such violations were committed against minors.

“Evidence from the two countries to which peacekeepers were deployed indicates that paid sex is common but rarely reported,” Reuters quoted the report as saying.

Meanwhile, the Associated Press, which also obtained the as-yet-unpublished report, says that last year, 231 people in Haiti reported providing sex to peacekeepers in exchange for money or goods.

“In cases where [peacekeepers] refused to pay, some women took away their badges and threatened to report their behavior on social media,” the Associated Press report quoted.

The report also states that in 2014, similar accusations were made against the peacekeeper 51, and a year earlier there were 66.

News agencies also cite a response to this report by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations.

The UN Department does not deny that it is concerned about the insufficient coverage of such misconduct of peacekeepers.

He, however, stresses that, despite the fact that over the past 10 years, the number of peacekeepers has increased dramatically, the number of charges of sexual exploitation and abuse has decreased.

At the moment, 125 thousands of UN peacekeepers are stationed in different countries.