Tag: South Sudan

UN Secretary Antonio Guterres has officially requested urgent reports into the allegation of sexual abuse in the South Sudan camp run by the UN. The suspects of this sexual mistreatment are the aid workers of such centres. This maltreatment of the displaced who took refuge in such camps could be traced back as early as 2015 in Malakal, regardless of the UN sending a task force to handle the situation. This involved eight workers being accused of raping minors and pressuring women and girls to sleep with them in exchange for gifts. Joshua Craze, an independent researcher and coauthor of the original report on sexual abuse in South Sudan, commented on the slow nature of the UN addressing this issue by saying, “The basic problem if you look into all this task force set up to prevent...