Researchers find widespread sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeepers in the eastern Congo. The UN has its second largest and longest mission in the DRC, where as many as 20,000 peacekeepers are stationed. Host Marco Werman speaks to Susan Bartels, doctor and co-author of the studies and a clinician scientist at Queens University in Ontario.
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