UN 2002 Reports into Child Abuse in Congo, When did Government find out
Dear House of Commons,
I believe the government recently released UN reports dating from 2002 that showed that UN workers were raping children in the Congo from 2002 onwards.
Could you tell me when the government first has written material allegations of these rapes. Did the government have the 2002 reports as far back as 2002. If not why not, are the UN reports not disclosed to the nations of the United Nations?
Yours faithfully,
Mark Taylor
Dear Mark Taylor,
I refer to your Freedom of Information request below. Could you please confirm if your request is intended for the Department for International Development (DFID), as this is DFID's Freedom of Information mailbox and your request below is addressed to the House of Commons.
Yours sincerely,
Scott McInnes
DFID Information Rights Team
Dear Department for International Development,
Yes the previous FOIA request was meant for you.
Yours faithfully,
Mark Taylor
Dear Mr Taylor,
Thank you for your request for information which we received on 17
September 2018. We are dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and will respond to you directly as soon as possible
and within 20 working days.
Please note the Department for International Development may also publish
our response to Freedom of Information requests at www.gov.uk/dfid.
Please contact me if you have any queries, quoting reference number
F2018-354.
Yours sincerely
Alison Marshall
Information Rights Team
Department for International Development
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Dear Mr Taylor,
Thank you for confirming that your message below was for DFID.
Can I just ask you to provide a little more information so we can process your FOI request for you - would it be possible to provide more detail, ie the name of the reports you are referring to? Anything you can provide will be helpful and allow us to check if we hold information relevant to your request on our DFID systems.
Yours sincerely
Alison
Information Rights Team
Department for International Development
Dear foi,
Please find a copy of the UN report here:
https://www.parliament.uk/business/commi...
I would like to know when Parliament knew about the abuse it exposed on its own website.
Yours sincerely,
Mark Taylor
Dear Mr Taylor
Thank you for providing the link below.
As there are a number of reports within the link you have provided would you be able to clarify if there is a specific report you are referring to. It would be really helpful if you could provide as much information as possible to enable me to check our DFID systems to see if we hold information relevant to your request. If you can be as specific as possible about the information you are looking for in line with the ICO guidance which can be found here:
https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/off...
that would be really helpful to me.
Many thanks again for your patience.
Yours sincerely
Alison
Information Rights Team
Department for International Development
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