Anyone is free to disagree, but throwing a tantrum and shouting 'Liar! Liar! Pants on Fire!" does not help.
Anyone is free to dispute it and to come up with another figure - provided it is based on some logical reasoning and is not just a wild (but politically more acceptable) guess plucked out of thin air.
What was most interesting about this estimate was not the figure (which, for the record, Hear their Cries still considers to be a very conservative estimate) as much as the vitriolic reaction it provoked among people who consider themselves "experts" or even just "activists" in promoting womens rights.
So, rather than launching into a tirade or another ad hominem attack on Hear their Cries, take the time to consider an academic study published in 2016 which indicated the number of women in Monrovia, Liberia who were sexually exploited by UN personnel (though indeed some of the blame must surely be attributed to the NGOs working with the UNMIL mission) to be in the region of 58,000.
That is an estimated 58,000 women and children in one city in just one UN mission.
See Beber, Gilligan, Guardado & Karim, 'Peacekeeping, Compliance with International Norms, and Transactional Sex in Monrovia, Liberia.' International Organization, 71(1).
The issue of the sexual exploitation and abuse of women and children who depend on international aid to survive has been in the news for almost 20 years, a sobering thought to bear in mind when reading the article entitled 'When the price of water is sexual assault' by Rebecca Root on the Devex website on 22 October 2020 .
Then consider the evidence of just how competent the UN is when it comes to investigating reports of sexual abuse.....
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