Syrian women are being subjected to sexual harassment by men engaged in the supply of relief sent by the United Nations and international donor agencies. The BBC has learned the information.
Three years ago it was warned, but a new report said that sexual harassment of women in the south of the country is in aid of relief. UN agency and charities say they have zero tolerance policy on sexual harassment. But they do not know whether the staff of their associate organizations in Syria is involved in such incidents.
Helpers told the BBC that sexual harassment levels are so widespread that many women in Syria do not want to go to relief centers. One activist claimed that some of the humanitarian aid organizations were not fully aware of this sexual harassment. Because the only way to distribute relief through third parties or local officials in the hazardous areas of Syria. Humanitarian aid agencies cannot directly enter those areas.
The United Nations Population Fund has an assessment of gender-based violence in the region last year. It is said that relief assistance is being provided for sexual relations. The report titled 'Voices from Syria 018' said that officials were getting women to marry for a short time to get 'sexual services' in exchange for food. Many women have to spend the night with the officials to get relief.
It is further reported that widows, women, and women, who have no male guardians, and domestic displaced women are particularly victims of this sexual harassment.
This information was first published three years ago for sexual harassment. A charity officer Daniel Spencer received the first allegation from Syrian women in a refugee camp in Jordan in March 2015. How the women were subjected to sexual harassment by the local council, they described her to Spencer.