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• 'PRESS RELEASE' - MINUSCA (15th September 2021): 'The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) has been made aware of allegations of sexual abuse of five girls, according to information received to date, involving unidentified members of the Gabonese military contingent deployed in the centre of the country.'

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• 'Researchers Say U.N. Peacekeepers Fathered And Left Behind Children In Haiti' - NPR (21st December 2019): 'NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Dr. Susan Bartels about the report she co-authored on U.N. peacekeepers conceiving children in Haiti during their 2004-17 stabilization mission there.'

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• 'HAITÍ. "Sexo por comida": publican relatos de niñas abusadas y embarazadas por tropas de ocupación en Haití'/'HAITI: "Sex for food": published accounts of girls abused and impregnated by occupation troops in Haiti' - La Izquierda Diario (21st December 2019): 'The publication also reveals that "minors were offered food and small amounts of cash to have sex with UN personnel, and that MINUSTAH was linked to a sex ring operating in Haiti with apparent impunity."'

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• 'It Isn't Just Haiti — UN Peacekeepers Leave a Trail of Abandoned Babies Across the World' - Code Blue (20th December 2019): 'The explosive study by Sabine Lee and Susan Bartels on peacekeeper-fathered children in Haiti was broken this week by The Times of London and quickly garnered headlines across the world. The study focused on girls and women who were impregnated by soldiers serving with the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), which operated from 2004 to 2017.'

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• 'U.N. Peacekeepers in Haiti Said to Have Fathered Hundreds of Children' - The New York Times (18th December 2019): 'Women and girls were left behind to face poverty, social stigma and single motherhood in the Western Hemisphere's poorest country.'

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• 'U.N. peacekeepers in Haiti fathered children and abandoned them, report says' - The Washington Post (18th December, 2019): 'U.N. peacekeepers in Haiti allegedly fathered children with women and girls before abandoning them, according to a new report, building on previous accusations of sexual misconduct carried out by peacekeepers on the vulnerable populations they are ordered to protect.'​

• 'UN peacekeepers in Haiti ‘fathered hundreds of babies’ then abandoned mothers' - The Times (17th December 2019): 'Ten Haitian women are taking groundbreaking legal action against the UN to establish paternity and make child support claims, reports Sean O’Neill'

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