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The UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic, (MINUSCA), is faced with accusations of SEA. [7] [8] Though some of the allegations of SEA in the Central African Republic (CAR) date before the UN intervention, the wide perception of the populace is that the UN forces are to blame. A research article on ...
In the 2000s, proponents of peacekeeping argued that the actions of a minority of the peacekeeping force should not be allowed to tarnish what they perceived as necessary work by the majority of participants in such UN missions. Others have criticized the UN over its apparent failure to take the issue seriously enough.
Likewise, Georgetown University professor Lise Howard argues that UN peacekeeping operations are more effective by virtue of their lack of compelling force; rather, their use of nonviolent methods such as "verbal persuasion, financial inducements and coercion short of offensive military force, including surveillance and arrest" are likelier to ...
While UNIFIL is a peacekeeping mission, troops can use force in certain circumstances, including self-defense, to protect civilians under the imminent threat of violence and to protect UN ...
Eleven U.N. peacekeepers stationed in Central African Republic have been accused of sexual exploitation and abuse, the United Nations said Friday. Investigations were still underway, but ...
The mission, known as MONUSCO, has faced previous accusations of sexual abuse which the United Nations has vowed to crack down on. UN suspends some peacekeepers in Congo, denounces sexual abuse ...
In March 2013, a fresh batch of 400 soldiers from the Sri Lankan Army's Sinha Regiment left for Haiti as part of the UN Peacekeeping mission. [ 14 ] According to Sri Lanka's Permanent Ambassador to Haiti, several Sri Lankan military officers were "disciplined" for violations of military rules and some officers were "asked" to resign.
The use of force by states is controlled by both customary international law and by treaty law. [1] The UN Charter reads in article 2(4): . All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.