More than 2,000 women in Haiti, many of them minors, were sexually abused by United Nations peacekeepers deployed to the Caribbean island from 2004 to 2017, according to a study. According to allegations, the military and other UN officials, who arrived on the island to "restore peace in the area," allegedly had sexual encounters with 11-year-old girls in some cases, taking advantage of a context of poverty and misery, following years of civil war and climatic catastrophes
Because of these abuses, many of the women conceived children who became known as the "Petit MINUSTAH", referring to the acronym of the UN peace mission in Haiti. Some sources say that about a hundred children were conceived as the result of rape.
The report was published by International Peacekeeping magazine, which also points out that most of the soldiers involved belong to Sri Lanka, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and others. The UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) - which is the longest running mission in the country, from 2004 to 2017 - was originally mandated to assist local Haitian institutions in a context of political instability and organized crime.
Several organizations reported that minors were offered food and small amounts of cash to have sex with UN personnel, and MINUSTAH was linked to a sex ring operating in Haiti with apparent impunity in the sex slave trade.
In the midst of it all, most of the teen mothers and their children were driven from their homes. In some cases, fathers sent money for a few months but after they finished their mission on the island, they gave up on the child and their mother. And the babies, to this day, are rejected for being mestizos and children of the so-called force of peace.
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