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Marie Deschamps

Stopping Sex Abuse in UN Peacekeeping: An Interview With Marie Deschamps of Canada

Joanne Myers
• January 15, 2018

Marie Deschamps is a former justice on the Supreme Court of Canada who led the groundbreaking 2015 United Nations report of an independent review on sexual exploitation and abuse by international peacekeeping forces in the Central African Republic. Deschamps agreed …

Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, UN Peacekeeping

A Task for the Next UN Secretary-General: Review the Special Envoy System

Barbara Crossette
• February 23, 2016

When a tough independent report sharply criticized the United Nations in December for its bungled attempts to cover up, or at least ignore, the sexual abuse of children by peacekeeping troops in the Central African Republic in recent years, it …

Categories: Secretary-General, UN Diplomats, UN Special Envoys

Report Damns the UN for Its Response to Sex Abuse Cases in Central Africa

Barbara Crossette
• December 17, 2015

A strongly worded independent report released Dec. 17 condemned the United Nations for bungled and deceptive responses to reports of sexual abuse of children by primarily French peacekeepers in the Central African Republic in 2014. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his …