A former United Nations aid boss has claimed the UN employs “at least 3,300 pedophiles” and says UN staff could have carried out 60,000 rapes in the last decade while indulging in unchecked sex abuse around the world
while protected by the international organization.
Former senior United Nations official Andrew Macleod made the bombshell claims in a dossier handed over to British DFID Secretary Priti Patel last year.
In the dossier, Professor Macleod estimated there are at least 3,300 paedophiles working
for the world body’s various agencies alone and thousands more “predatory” sex abusers specifically target aid charity jobs to get close to vulnerable women and children.
Professor MacLeod also says there has been an
“endemic” cover-up of the sickening crimes for two decades by the United Nations, with the UN firing anybody who attempts to blow the whistle on pedophilia within the global organization.
Sharing his dossier with British newspaper The Sun, Professor MacLeod warned that the spiralling abuse scandal was on the same scale as the Catholic Church’s.
The respected academic said:
“There are tens of thousands of aid workers around the world with paedophile tendencies, but if you wear a UNICEF T-shirt nobody will ask what you’re up to.
“You have the impunity to do whatever you want.
“It
is endemic across the aid industry across the world”.
“The system is at fault, and should have stopped this years ago.”
United Nations headquarters in New York.
The Sun reports: Professor
MacLeod worked as an aid boss for the UN all over the world, including high profile jobs in the Balkans, Rwanda and Pakistan – where he was chief of operations of the UN’s Emergency Coordination Centre.
He is campaigning for far tougher
checks on aid workers in the field as well as the abusers among them to be brought to justice, and wants the UK to lead the fight.
The professor’s grim 60,000 figure is based on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s admission last year
that UN peacekeepers and civilian staff abused 311 victims in just one 12 month period over 2016.
The UN also admits that the likely true number of cases reported against its staff is double that, as figures outside of war zones are not centrally collated.
Prof MacLeod also estimates that only one in 10 of all rapes and assaults by UN staff are reported, as even in the UK the reporting rate is just 14 per cent.
Based on evidence from Prof MacLeod, ex-Cabinet minister Priti Patel – who resigned
in November last year – today accused senior officials at DFID of being part of the cover up.
Professor MacLeod lhas warned that the spiralling abuse scandal was on the same scale as the Catholic Church’s.
Ms Patel said senior DFID staff tried to talk her out of making a critical speech about
aid workers’ sex abuse, arguing that it was only by UN soldiers and to claim otherwise was “over-stepping the mark”.
Britain is one of the top 10 contributors to the UN budget, handing over £2 billion ($2.57 billion) a year.
Prof MacLeod insisted that meant the “difficult truth” that “child rape crimes are being inadvertently funded in part by United Kingdom tax-payer”.
He added: “I know there were a lot of discussions at senior levels of
the United Nations about ‘something must be done’ but nothing effective came of it, and if you look at the record of whistleblowers, they were fired.
“We are looking at a problem on the scale of the Catholic Church — if not bigger.”
Senior Tory MP Conor Burns, who is Boris Johnson’s parliamentary aide, dubbed the Oxfam furore as just “the tip of an iceberg in finding out what has been going on”.
Mr Burns was a university friend of Prof MacLeod and called for
him to be listened to very seriously.
Mr Burns added: “I believe that there has been systematic, organised and covered-up activity going on over many, many years”.
Penny Mordaunt tonight vowed to “step up our work to tackle
sexual exploitation and abuse across the UN and other international organisations”.
In September last year, PM Theresa May also threatened to withhold cash from the UN and demanded it “win back trust”.
The Prime Minister’s
office today insisted there will be “zero tolerance” towards any acts of sexual abuse.
But Downing Street ducked out of ordering any investigation into Ms Patel’s allegations, despite their seriousness.
DFID also said “there
no current investigations” into any senior officials turning a blind eye to abuse.
One angry Tory MP said Theresa May was refusing to act because the claims.
Commons Development Select Committee chair Stephen Twigg announced his MPs will
grill aid bosses and ministers over the scandal as soon as Parliament returns from its half term break next Tuesday.
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