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Remedies for Harm Caused by UN Peacekeepers

Part of: Remedies For Harm Caused By UN Peacekeepers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Bruce Rashkow
Bruce Rashkow*
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Columbia University
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Since the creation of the United Nations, the need for the Organization to enjoy immunity from the juris-diction of Member States has been widely recognized as necessary to achieve its important and far ranging purposes. However, it has also been understood that this immunity was not intended to shield the Organization from responsibility as a “good citizen” on the world stage to respond to justifiable claims against the Organization by third parties resulting from the activities or operations of the Organization. The United Nations has generally achieved these dual objectives, although two recent situations in the peacekeeping context have raised questions about whether it continues to do so, namely the cases involving the Mothers of Srebrenica and the Haiti Cholera victims.

Type
Symposium: Remedies For Harm Caused By UN Peacekeepers
Information
AJIL Unbound , Volume 108 , 2014 , pp. 10 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

References

1 Remedies for Harm Caused by UN Peacekeepers, ASIL (2014)Google Scholar.

2 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, Feb. 13, 1946, 1 UNTS 15.

3 UN General Assembly, Model Status-of-Forces Agreement for Peace-keeping Operations: Rep. of the Secretary-General, UN Doc. A/45/594 (Oct. 9, 1990).

4 G.A. Res. 52/247 (June 26, 1998).

5 Id. at para. 6, as defined in para. 14 of GA Res. 51/389 (Sep. 20, 1996).

6 See Rep. of the Secretary General, UN Doc. A/51/389 (Sep. 20, 1996).

7 HR 13 April 2012 (Mothers of Srebrenica/The State of the Netherlands) (Neth.).

8 Press Release, UN Secretary General, Haiti Cholera Victims’ Compensation Claims ‘Not Receivable’ under Immunities and Privileges Convention, United Nations Tells Their Representatives, UN Press Release SG/SM/14828 (Feb. 21, 2013).

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14 UN Comprehensive Strategy on Assistance and Support to Victims of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by UN Staff and Related Personnel, GA Res. 62/214 (Dec. 21, 2007).

15 GA Res. 62/63 (Dec. 6, 2007).

16 UN Secretary-General, Special Measures for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, UN Doc. A/67/766 (Feb. 28, 2013).