Zero tolerance for violations
posted on: Jan 10 2012 7:37 by RDugey. Viewed 14 times.The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon reiterated yesterday that the institution has a policy of "zero tolerance" against sexual abuses committed by the "Blue Helmets", as in the case of the Uruguayan military members of the international peace forces deployed in Haiti and charged with the alleged rape of a young man.
Ban "has repeated that the UN has a strict policy of zero tolerance towards sexual crimes committed by troops of the international forces of peace", said the spokesman of the UN, Martin Nesirky, in relation to the judicial process followed in the Latin American country related to a case occurred in the country Antillean.
The UN spokesman said the Agency "knows the information that the soldiers have been released after a court case followed by the Uruguayan authorities in relation to military offences", at the time who said that they also know that "the process" u000a"judicial follows in relation to the more serious criminal charges".

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