Posted on November 17th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The NY Times is reporting an interesting skirmish in a UN General Assembly Committee vote — was it the Sixth (or Legal) committee?
The U.S. sponsored what it thought was a self-evident text, and was mystified when other delegates didn’t agree.
The NYT writes that today “A UN committee has watered down a U.S. draft resolution on [...]
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Posted on November 3rd, 2007 by Marian Houk
If these “allegations” are true, concerning activities in Haiti by UN Peacekeepers from Sri Lanka “of a transactional sex nature”, then sending home those caught is just not enough.
The whole Sri Lankan battalion should leave.
It doesn’t matter if, as the UN spokesperson told journalists on Friday, “Sri Lanka is a longstanding and important troop-contributing [...]
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Filed under: Haiti, Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment, UN Peacekeeping
Posted on September 10th, 2007 by Marian Houk
What does it say, that UN Peacekeepers stand accused of awful and disgraceful sexual exploitation of women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, while UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon are, perhaps more honorably, marrying local women?
Thanks to the very useful Mideast Wire (Mideastwire.com) translation and news service, we learn that: “On September 8, the [...]
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Filed under: Lebanon, Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment, UN Peacekeeping
Posted on March 8th, 2007 by Marian Houk
…and the UN goes all-out in its lip-service to the idea of promoting women’s equality, still without being able to practice it, within its own Secretariat.
The “public information” units of every UN body and Agency churn out the press releases. Roundtable discussions are organized in every major UN office, with smiling women and pro-forma [...]
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Filed under: Global Economy, Human Rights, International Tribunals, Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment
Posted on January 19th, 2007 by Marian Houk
“The Secretary-General is very aware of the need to stress a ‘zero tolerance’ policy among the troops”, the UN spokesperson reported on Thursday, and will probably make this point in person during an upcoming trip to Africa, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, at the end of January.Â
The UN policy of “zero tolerance” was [...]
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Filed under: Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment, Sudan - Southern Sudan, UN Peacekeeping, UN Secretary-General
Posted on January 9th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Participating for the first time as new UNSG in a meeting of the UN Security Council, BAN KI-MOON assured the council members, diffidently, “of his deep sense of mission, duty and dedication”, as he assumed his high office, according to a UN press release Ban added that “You know, perhaps better than anyone, that I do [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment, UN Peacekeeping, UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council
Posted on January 6th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Patronizing prostitutes — even children — is considered ”sexual exploitation” at the UN, apparently, rather than “sexual abuse”.Â
Rightly so, given the huge descrepancy in buying power given to UN staff members and UN Peacekeepers (civilians, soldiers, or police persons)Â in many impoverished conflict zones around the world.
This rule has been in effect for some time now — actually, [...]
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Posted on January 3rd, 2007 by Marian Houk
The accusations are sickening — so why did it take the London newspaper, Daily Telegraph, six months to publish them? Were they waiting for Kofi Annan to leave? Were they making sure their own investigative reporting was complete and correct?
The accusations were published in the article UN staff accused of raping children in Sudan, written [...]
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Filed under: Journalism and Journalists, Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment, Sudan - Darfur, Sudan - Southern Sudan, UN Peacekeeping, UN Secretary-General
Posted on December 6th, 2006 by Marian Houk
The UN General Assembly on Tuesday has established an Ad Hoc Committee to consider criminal accountability of the United Nations officials and experts on mission.
The spokeswoman for the President of the UN General Assembly told journalists at Tuesday’s DPI (Department of PUblic Information) Noon Briefing in New York that “That is part of this whole question [...]
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Posted on December 4th, 2006 by Marian Houk
Sexual exploitation and abuse are “utterly immoral, and completely at odds with our mission”, SG Kofi Annan said at a meeting convened by the UN, and added that “no one in the UN is above the law”.Â
Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein of Jordan, who is Kofi Annan’s Special Adviser on Sexual Abuse and Exploitation by UN [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment, UN Administration, UN Peacekeeping, UN Secretary-General
