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R 070806Z JUL 08
FM AMEMBASSY NDJAMENA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 6311
RUEHGI/AMEMBASSY BANGUI 1512
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 1014
RUEHFR/AMEMBASSY PARIS 2321

UNCLAS NDJAMENA 000275 
 
STATE FOR AF/C AND IO/PSC 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL KPKO PHUM UN SE KCRM KWMN CD
SUBJECT: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF UN EFFORTS TO COMBAT SEXUAL 
EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE IN UN PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS 
 
REF:  STATE 68780 
 
¶1. Per reftel, Embassy N'Djamena assesses that UN efforts regarding 
SEA and TIP in MINURCAT in Chad have been completely successful and 
that MINURCAT has worked actively and effectively to prevent and 
respond to SEA and TIP in its area of responsibility in Chad. 
 
¶2. Host government and popular perceptions, as expressed by local 
human rights NGOs, the general public, and the media, have been 
uniformly favorable to MINURCAT's presence. 
 
¶3. Neither the Chadian authorities nor civil society groups 
have raised issues related to SEA or TIP in MINURCAT authorities.  No 
international organizations nor non-governmental organizations have 
raised SEA or TIP issues in MINURCAT. There has been no mention in 
the Chadian press of issues related to SEA and or TIP in MINURCAT. 
 
 
¶4. MINURCAT has about 600 personnel on the ground; has confined most 
of its activities so far to the capital; and includes no formed 
units, either military or police in nature. 
 
¶5. UNSYG Special Representative for Children Associated with Armed 
Conflict, visited Chad in June and urged all parties to prevent any 
further illegal recruitment into armed groups, encouraged GOC to 
address the issues of child trafficking and sexual violence against 
girls. The GOC responded by agreeing to release more than 60 
children from detention and to verification visits to military camps 
and military training areas to prevent future recruitment of 
children. 
 
¶6. MINURCAT has developed training courses on Child Rights, Child 
Militarization, and Child Victim-Witness Protection for UN police 
trainers and Chadian police and gendarmes, especially regarding 
children in refugee camps and IDP community camps.  MINURCAT has 
collaborated with the GOC Ministry of Social Affairs and prison 
authorities and local women's civil society groups for the 
improvement of prison conditions for female inmates and for better 
reintegration of females and juveniles into society. 
¶7.  MINURCAT officers have documented reports of armed attacks on 
civilians by men in civilian and military clothes in the East of 
Chad and of sexual and other forms of violence against women, 
including rape, in and outside refugee camps, IDP sites and in 
several villages. MINURCAT officers helped to confirm that four 
girls, including one minor, were raped by a group of Chadian 
military near the eastern town of Abeche. 
 
¶8.  MINURCAT has also undertaken to promote gender mainstreaming in 
its own activities, especially in the context of policing.  MINURCAT 
developed comprehensive training materials to effectively 
investigate and prevent incidents of gender-based violence, 
especially in refugee and IDP areas; and a Gender Policy and 
Strategy paper. 
NIGRO