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Article: No End to Their Woes: Allegations of sexual extortion by aid workers in Africa.(Zimbabwe, and other countries)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek
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- July 29, 2002
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Byline: Tom Masland and Miriam Mahlow
More than a year ago, officials from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees agency looked on as women in a Zimbabwe camp called Tongogara depicted daily life: girls kissing and cuddling with aid workers in order to be allowed to go to school. The skit was a red flag, but there was no investigation. Last month refugees from the same camp complained to the UNHCR of sexual harassment. They got no reply. Finally an intern at Tongogara alerted the International Catholic Migration Commission, which runs the camp under contract. A top official flew in, and this month the ICMC fired its country director and camp manager.
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