Where’s the outrage?
U.N. fears peacekeepers commit sex abuse worldwide

Rocked by widespread abuse of women and girls, including gang rape, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations also has found sexual exploitation cases in at least four other missions — in Burundi, Liberia, Ivory Coast — as well as more recently in Haiti, they added.

The BBC TV news this morning, while reporting on Two killed in Haiti protest clash, interviewed a “man on the street” who asked, why is the UN so ineffective? Another BBC story points out,

The UN Secretariat is also accused of acting too slowly on reports that UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sexually abused women and girls.

Investigations are also underway about the conduct of peacekeepers in Haiti.

As James Traub says in the second article, maybe the folks at the UN are all waiting to see how bad the next report will be.