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FRONTLINE Uncovers New Cases of Sex Abuse by United Nations Peacekeepers FRONTLINE Uncovers New Cases of Sex Abuse by United Nations Peacekeepers UN Sex Abuse Scandal Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at 10 p.m. ET / 9 p.m. CT on PBS & online pbs.org/frontline/un-sex-abuse-scandal www.facebook.com/frontline | Twitter: @frontlinepbs #frontlinePBS Instagram: @frontlinepbs | YouTube: youtube.com/frontline Over the past 15 years, the United Nations (UN) has recorded more than 1,700 allegations of sexual abuse by its peacekeepers in conflict zones around the world — from Cambodia to Mozambique, and from Bosnia to the Democratic Republic of Congo. In UN Sex Abuse Scandal, a new documentary airing Tuesday, July 24 on PBS and online at pbs.org/frontline, FRONTLINE investigates why the problem of sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers persists despite the UN’s efforts to stamp it out — and why only 53 uniformed peacekeepers and one civilian peacekeeper have ever been sent to prison for sexual offenses. “Though the UN’s new secretary general has vowed to make combatting sexual abuse and exploitation a top priority, we’ve found that not only is it still happening — but that many victims hadn’t been contacted by the UN, and that criminal accountability for the perpetrators remains elusive,” says correspondent Ramita Navai, an award- winning author and journalist whose most recent FRONTLINE documentary, Iraq Uncovered, was honored with a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award earlier this year. In UN Sex Abuse Scandal, the film team tracks down survivors across the globe who were as young as 10 when they say they were raped or exploited by UN peacekeepers who were supposed to protect them. “They grabbed me, took me inside the house. After they took me inside, they took my clothes off, threw me down, had sex with me, then took me outside and told me to go,” says Daniella, a young girl in the Central African Republic who was 10 when she says she was raped by French peacekeepers who had been deployed to help stop a potential genocide. Her family says they didn’t know how to make a complaint to the UN, so her rape went unrecorded by them — a story that is not unique and suggests that numbers of those abused may be far higher than imagined. “The reality is, today, there is no guarantee of criminal accountability for someone who commits rape inside the UN peacekeeping mission, despite a lot of effort by a lot of people and a strong commitment by the top reaches of the UN,” says Tony Banbury, who resigned in 2016 after spending more than 20 years inside the UN overseeing relief and peacekeeping missions. “The systems in place now are full of holes.” Navai and director Sam Collyns go inside those systems, exploring why the UN — which has the authority to fire people, but not prosecute them — has failed to hold so many abusers accountable. “The UN is not a sovereign body; the UN at the, at the most can dismiss someone from service, but could not conduct its own trials,” UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein tells FRONTLINE. “That is for the governments themselves to do. And if the member state does nothing or shields the individual, impunity exists.” In response to horrific allegations surrounding the peacekeeping mission in the Congo in 2004 (“It was akin to a lifeguard jumping into a pool and instead of saving someone who was drowning to actually drown them, almost,” Hussein says), Hussein issued a comprehensive report recommending changes in how such cases are handled. For military peacekeepers, he recommended holding local courts martial – making it easier to access witnesses and evidence. For civilian peacekeepers, he recommended an international convention to ensure personnel could be tried in their home countries. But as the film explores, the UN member states resisted both measures, objecting to UN interference in their domestic laws. The film team also finds and interviews Didier Bourguet — the only civilian peacekeeper to have been jailed for sexual abuse while working abroad for the UN. He was jailed for two rapes — but he tells FRONTLINE on-camera that he had sex with 20 or 25 children while in the Congo. Despite the UN’s pledge back in 2005 to try to find Bourguet’s victims and make an effort to include them in a victim support program, FRONTLINE finds a woman who was abused by Bourguet as a girl, but wasn’t contacted by the UN until FRONTLINE brought her case to their attention. “My heart is not content,” the woman, Valerie, tells FRONTLINE. “This person has ruined my life.” In the meantime, the problem continues. In the first three months of 2018, the UN recorded more than 28 new allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse. UN Sex Abuse Scandal premieres Tuesday, July 24, at 10/9c on PBS (check local listings) and online at pbs.org/frontline. Credits UN Sex Abuse Scandal: The executive producer for FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath. About FRONTLINE FRONTLINE, U.S. television’s longest running investigative documentary series, explores the issues of our times through powerful storytelling. FRONTLINE has won every major journalism and broadcasting award, including 89 Emmy Awards and 20 Peabody Awards. Visit pbs.org/frontline and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Tumblr and Google+ to learn more. FRONTLINE is produced by WGBH Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Major funding for FRONTLINE is provided by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation, the Park Foundation, the John and Helen Glessner Family Trust and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation. Press Contact FRONTLINE, Anne Husted, [email protected] 617.300.5312 .
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