Book contents
- The Law and Practice of Peacekeeping
- The Law and Practice of Peacekeeping
- Copyright page
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A Political History of UN Involvement in Haiti
- 3 Integrating Human Rights Norms into UN Peacekeeping Practice
- 4 UN Immunities and Human Rights
- 5 The Cholera Epidemic
- 6 Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
- 7 UN Peacekeepers’ Use of Deadly Force to Maintain Law and Order
- 8 Conclusion
- Index
6 - Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Who Guards the Guardians?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2021
Book contents
- The Law and Practice of Peacekeeping
- The Law and Practice of Peacekeeping
- Copyright page
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A Political History of UN Involvement in Haiti
- 3 Integrating Human Rights Norms into UN Peacekeeping Practice
- 4 UN Immunities and Human Rights
- 5 The Cholera Epidemic
- 6 Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
- 7 UN Peacekeepers’ Use of Deadly Force to Maintain Law and Order
- 8 Conclusion
- Index
Summary
Peacekeepers have been implicated in sex scandals since the early 1990s when cases were reported in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, the DRC, East Timor, Eritrea, Haiti, Kosovo, Liberia, South Sudan, and West Africa. This issue continues today, as has most recently been exposed in relation to peacekeepers in the Central African Republic. As peacekeeping operations have evolved and grown, there have been greater numbers of victims of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA). Since 2001 the United Nation (UN) has sought to implement reforms and policies to address, prevent, and remedy the perpetration of those harms, with varying degrees of success.
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- The Law and Practice of PeacekeepingForegrounding Human Rights, pp. 89 - 115Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021