Security Council Backs Move to Combat Peacekeeper Sex Abuse

The U.N. Security Council on Friday endorsed a call from the secretary-general to repatriate peacekeepers who sexually abuse or exploit the people they are sent to protect. The council adopted the U.S.-drafted resolution 14-0, with one abstention. The resolution "makes clear" that it's the council's job "to ensure there is accountability when men, women and children are abused by the blue helmets this council sends to protect them,” U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power...

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