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UNSC Adopts Resolution to Repatriate Peacekeepers for Sexual Abuse

© AFP 2023 / TIMOTHY A. CLARY Foreign Ministers vote during a UN Security Council meeting on Syria at the United Nations in New York on December 18, 2015
Foreign Ministers vote during a UN Security Council meeting on Syria at the United Nations in New York on December 18, 2015 - Sputnik International
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The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution to repatriate in three circumstances peacekeepers engaged in sexual abuse or exploitation.

UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) — The resolution was adopted on Friday with 14 votes in support and 1 abstention (Egypt). Egypt's proposed amendment to make repatriation less automatic failed, with five in favor, nine against and one abstention.

The resolution calls for repatriation when "a particular troop-contributing country whose personnel are the subject of an allegation or allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse has not taken appropriate steps to investigate the allegation and/or when the particular troop- or police-contributing country has not held the perpetrators accountable or informed the Secretary General of the progress of its investigations and/or actions taken."

While UN peacekeeping missions in countries such as the CAR and Haiti are designed to bring calm to countries plagued by internal conflict, there are growing concerns over the effects such abuses on local women and children and what long-term impacts they will have on these countries. - Sputnik International
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Almost 100 Sex Abuse Claims Filed Against UN Staff in 2015
According a United Nations report released earlier this month, there were 99 registered allegations of sexual abuse or exploitation filed against UN staff members last year. The number is a sharp increase on 80 similar claims filed in 2014.

An internal UN report, leaked in the spring of last year, revealed that French troops deployed in the Central African Republic (CAR) as part of a 2013 peacekeeping mission had subjected boys to sexual abuse in exchange for food and money.

In January, the United Nations said it had launched an investigation into new sexual abuse claims arising from a series of similar allegations against its peacekeepers deployed in the CAR.

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