The document by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS)
says it has found that hundreds of women in Haiti and Liberia have been
motivated by hunger and poverty to sell sex.
They are paid with cash, jewellery, mobile phones and other items.
The report says 480 sexual exploitation and abuse claims were made in 2008-13.
One-third of the allegations involved children.
'Transactional sex'
The
UN draft report says hundreds of women surveyed in Haiti and Liberia
told they had been motivated by hunger, poverty and lifestyle
improvement to sell sex to UN peacekeepers, according to Reuters news
agency.
"Evidence from two peacekeeping mission countries
demonstrates that transactional sex is quite common but underreported in
peacekeeping missions," the news agency is quoting the draft report.
Meanwhile,
the Associated Press - which has also obtained the document - says that
231 people in Haiti interviewed last year told they had had
"transactional sex" with peacekeepers.
"In cases of non-payment,
some women withheld the badges of peacekeepers and threatened to reveal
their infidelity via social media," AP reports the document as saying.
It adds that 51 such allegations were made against UN peacekeepers in 2014, down from 66 a year before.
The
news agencies are also quoting what they say is a response to the draft
by the UN Departments of Peacekeeping Operations and Field Support.
The departments do not dispute that underreporting remains a concern.
But
they also stress that there has been a significant increase in
deployment of peacekeepers over the past 10 years and a large decrease
in sexual exploitation and abuse allegations.
The UN currently has about 125,000 peacekeepers deployed in a number of countries around the world.
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