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From July 1 to September 30, the United Nations received a 31 new message about cases of sexual crimes by its personnel. This was stated by the press secretary of the organization Stefan Duzharrik, the UN news center reports .

15 accusations relate to the employees of the Office of the UN Supreme Commissar for refugees, 12 - military personnel of peacekeeping missions. We are talking at least about 24 women and 6 girls who have become victims of sexual crimes. In the Central African Republic, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Haiti, lawyers of the UN work with the victims. Of the 31 cases, one was confirmed, 14 became the subject of investigations, and the rest are in the preliminary assessment stage.

In January 2017, the UN introduced a new system for collecting accusations of sexual operation and violence to improve its transparency. Thanks to the new approach to the UN, complaints regarding the events that occurred several years ago began, Duzharrik noted.

On August 23, the UN Secretary General Antoniu Gutherrish appointed Jane Connors defender of the victims of sexual exploitation. “In fact, my task is to support the victims of sexual exploitation and abuse that were committed under the UN flag. It can be the“ blue helmets ”of the UN and the national peacekeeping forces approved by the Security Council and the UN employees,” Konnors explained at a briefing on Friday. “I must become a“ voice ”of the injured, delve into what they have experienced, to achieve, to achieve the same So that all the necessary evidence and evidence are collected that would allow a proper investigation. ”