Accountability in Peacekeeping Missions and 1325 Implementation

 

UN Documents

• A Comprehensive Strategy to Eliminate Future Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, March 24, 2005 (Zeid Report)

• DPKO Guidance and Directives of Disciplinary Issues for All Categories of Personnel Serving in UN Peacekeeping and Other Field Missions

• Human Trafficking and United Nations Peacekeeping, UNDPKO Policy Paper, March 2004

• Secretary General's Bulletin on Special Measures for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, October 2003

• Implementation Guidelines for the Field on the Secretary-General's Bulletin on Special Measures for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse

• Statement of Commitment on Eliminating Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by UN and Non-UN Personnel, December 2006

• UN Security Council Resolution 1325, U.N. Doc. S/Res/1325 (2000)

• UN Security Council Resolution 1820 on Women and Peace and Security, U.N. Doc. S/Res/1820 (2008)

 

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Peacekeeping and Related Codes of Conduct

• Ten Rules. Code of Conduct for Blue Helmets

• We are United Nations Peacekeepers

• UN Staff Rules and Regulations (in UN Human Resources Handbook)

• UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations Conduct and Discipline Units

 

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Reports

• Hopes Betrayed: Trafficking of Women and Girls to Post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina for Forced Prostitution, Human Rights Watch, November 2002

• Literature Review and Analysis Related to Trafficking in Post-Conflict Settings, USAID, June 2004

• Sarah E. Mendelson, Barracks and Brothels: Peacekeepers and Human Trafficking in the Balkans, CSIS, Feburary 2005

• Must Boys Be Boys? Ending Sexual Abuse & Exploitation in UN Peacekeeping Missions, Refugees International, October 2005

• Sexual Exploitation in Peace-keeping Missions, Transparency International, December 2006

• No One To Turn To: The Under Reporting of Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Aid Workers and Peacekeepers, Save The Children UK, May 2008

 

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Articles

• C. Cora True-Frost, The UN Security Council Marks Seventh Anniversary of Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security with Open Debate, ASIL Insights, December 17, 2007

• Sarah E. Mendelson, Beyond Blackwater, San Francisco Chronicle, November 12, 2007

• Susan A. Notar, Peacekeepers as Perpetrators: Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of Women and Children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, American University Journal of Gender Social Policy & the Law (2006)

• Book Review: Martin Zwanenburg, Accountability of Peace Support Operations, Martinus Nijoff, (2005), and Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops, The Prosecution and Defense of Peacekeepers under International Criminal Law, Transnational (2004), in European Journal of International Law, vol. 17, no.4 (2006).

 

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NATO

• NATO Policy on Combating Human Trafficking (News, Official Texts, Opinions)

 

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Ministries of Defense

• US Department of Defense Resources on Combating Trafficking in Persons

 

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