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Buzzfeed News: UN Peacekeepers Fathered Dozens Of Children In Haiti. The Women They Exploited Are Trying To Get Child Support.

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Biography: Jess DiPierro Obert is a visual journalist and filmmaker based between New York and Haiti, where she has lived for 5 years (2016-2021). She is focused on reporting on stories related to women, abortion rights, human rights, immigration, identity,... MORE

Jui*, 9, is the daughter of Pha...oves natural teas and medicine.

Jui*, 9, is the daughter of Phanie*, 32, and a UN peacekeeper from Uruguay who she has never met named Hector. Jui is good at school and takes piano lessons. She wants to become a nurse so that she may help people, she particularly loves natural teas and medicine.

Buzzfeed News: UN Peacekeepers Fathered Dozens Of Children In Haiti. The Women They Exploited Are Trying To Get Child Support.

Dominic Antonio Cortez, 9, is t... in the school courtyard alone.

Dominic Antonio Cortez, 9, is the son of Gessy Becheline Appoliner, 36, and a UN peacekeeper from Argentina. Dominic wants to be a peacekeeper when he is older, and yearns to know his father. He hopes to change schools in the new year because he has been bullied for his hair and looking different than the rest of his peers. His stepfather often sees him standing in the school courtyard alone.

Phanie* met Hector, the UN peac...e one she lost her virginty to.

Phanie* met Hector, the UN peacekeeper from Uruguay at the pier in Jacmel where he worked, one late afternoon with her friends. She was 21-years-old, would meet her family, and was the one she lost her virginty to.

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Buzzfeed News: UN Peacekeepers Fathered Dozens Of Children In Haiti. The Women They Exploited Are Trying To Get Child Support.

jess dipierro obert

Sep 6, 2021

Location: Haiti

Photos. On assignment for Buzzfeed News. A landmark ruling in a Haitian court offers some hope to the families seeking child support, but the peacekeeper fathers won’t have to pay unless their home countries step in.

UN Peacekeepers Fathered Dozens Of Children In Haiti. The Women They Exploited Are Trying To Get Child Support.
A landmark ruling in a Haitian court offers some hope to the families seeking child support, but the peacekeeper fathers won’t have to pay unless their home countries step in.
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