U.N. Peacekeepers Accused Of Sexual Abuses

How do you build trust in the UN and peacekeeping troops with stories like these? It almost seems that the innocent victims of political violence throughout the world have no friends--or hope:

The U.N. said Friday that it had confined a group of peacekeepers to their base in Ivory Coast after receiving allegations of widespread sexual abuse, the latest in a string of accusations of sexual violations by U.N. forces around the world.

The U.N. mission to Ivory Coast suspended all of the contingent's activities after an internal investigation "revealed serious allegations of widespread sexual exploitation and abuse," the U.N. said.