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‘They Were Going to the Beach, Acting like Tourists, Drinking, Chasing Girls’: A Mixed-Methods Study on Community Perceptions of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti Cover

‘They Were Going to the Beach, Acting like Tourists, Drinking, Chasing Girls’: A Mixed-Methods Study on Community Perceptions of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti

Open Access
|May 2020

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Narrative sampling process.

Table 1

Participant demographics.

Frequency (n)Percent (%)
Sex
Female10527.6
Male27471.9
Prefer not to say20.5
Age
11–17 years old266.8
18–24 years old10026.3
25–34 years old14738.6
35–44 years old5414.2
45–54 years old338.7
>55 years old133.4
Prefer not to say82.1
Education
No formal education112.9
Some primary school266.8
Completed primary school4311.3
Some secondary school15741.2
Completed secondary school7018.4
Some post-secondary school5313.9
Completed post-secondary school215.5
Income Groups
Poor10828.4
Average23160.6
Well-off4211.0
Location
Cité Soleil7319.2
Charlie Log Base/Tabarre225.8
Léogâne277.1
Saint-Marc5013.1
Hinche6015.8
Port Salut10728.1
Cap-Haïtien328.4
Morne Cassé/Fort Liberté102.6
Overall381
Figure 2

Map of Haiti illustrating number of stories (n) collected from each base and related narrative demographics. Size of circles relative to the number of stories from each base about underage children (perceived <18 years old) or about women (perceived >18 years old). a Total stories at the base (%, n); b TPCC(s) with the highest percentage of attributed stories at the base; c Percentage of stories involving underage children at the base; d TPCC with the highest percentage of attributed stories overall; e Percentage of total stories involving underage children.

Figure 3

Map of Haiti illustrating the number of stories (n) collected from each base about perceived consensual sexual relations and TPCC with the highest percentage of attributed stories. Size of circles relative to the number of stories from each base. a Stories by base location (%, N); b TPCC with the highest percentage of attributed stories by base; c TPCC with the highest percentage of attributed stories overall.

ETSEnstiti Travay Sosyal ak Syans Sosyal
IANWGEInter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality
IASCInter-Agency Standing Committee
KOFAVIVKomisyon Fanm Viktim pou Viktim
MINUTSAHUN Mission for Justice Support in Haiti
PSOpeace support operations
SEAsexual exploitation and abuse
TPCCtroop and police–contributing countries
UNUnited Nations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/sta.766 | Journal eISSN: 2165-2627
Language: English
Page range: 10 - 10
Submitted on: Jan 6, 2020
Accepted on: Apr 20, 2020
Published on: May 21, 2020
Published by: Department of Peace Studies and International Development, University of Bradford
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2020 Carla King, Sabine Lee, Susan A. Bartels, published by Department of Peace Studies and International Development, University of Bradford
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.